The toolkit provides access to guidance, resources, and tools to help people and organisations to steward data effectively.
Data.govt.nz adopted an international data harvesting open standard (data.json) to automate agency dataset updates and additions. There are tools available to help generate the correct format and the open standard data schema is detailed with examples.
Economic indicators data is regularly released by Statistics NZ. Most of these indicators are updated on a quarterly and annual basis.
Open data is a core component of our world’s increasing digital economy, providing opportunity to generate significant social and economic benefits to our society.
Using the volume of traffic on state highways as an indicator of the momentum of our economy
Infoshare, a self-service open online data tool on Stats NZ’s website, contains over 30 million aggregated, confidentialised, time-series data.
What will things look like when open data is “working”? Entrepreneurs, businesses, researchers, community groups and individuals will be innovating, creating new insights and acting as informed participants in government decisions.
In May 2005, Environment Canterbury began releasing public transport data for re-use. The data includes route details, bus stop locations, scheduling details, as well as the real time bus estimated time of arrivals (ETAs).
1. What is NZGOAL?NZGOAL is an open access and open licensing framework that promotes the release for re-use of non-personal copyright works and non-copyright material held…
Open data discussion forums, websites and meetups where you can get (and share) information and ideas about the innovative use of open data.