The sharing of open data stories raises awareness about open data and encourages new release and use. Recently Stats NZ commissioned engage2 to gather stories from current and potential users of open data.
International Open Data Day, Wellington was held in the National Library of New Zealand on Saturday, 4th March.
Introduction1 When NZGOAL was first released in August 2010, it supported use of the Creative Commons 3.0 New Zealand licences. At that time, this made obvious…
Learn what data is and why it is important, and learn about some of the related terms, principles, and frameworks.
Up-to-date links to information, data, and work to support the Aotearoa NZ data system. For instance, the data portal, open data catalogue, data registry, and all-of-government data and information work registry.
Open Data in a business context can, at first, appear at odds with the idea of economic value creation, particularly when publishing Open Data. Benefits can be found through using others open data or publishing it.
Published on 07 June 2020.
Discussion paper - An international example of data ethics advisory - March 2020 [PDF, 926 KB]
Purpose and scopeThis paper has been prepared…
Machine and human readable formats, such as PDF, CSV, and XLS, ensures that you maximise the value of your open data while complying with open government data and information policies.
Principle 4: Clear purpose and action. This principle includes ngā tikanga Wairua (spirit or soul of a person) and Mauri (life principle or force).
Metadata describes your dataset to others in a standardised way. Having good quality metadata helps people discover and use your dataset. This guidance provides a description and examples of good practice metadata when releasing on data.govt.nz.