Engagement with data users is a key part of the Open Government Data Action Plan, because it helps to understand and prioritise what data users want.
An early paper on the data flow model, with a particular emphasis on how it was being implemented at Stats NZ. This paper was written by…
We’re ramping up for this year’s GovHack event at the moment and excited to be a national sponsor again this year.
The Land Cover Database (LCDB), available to users of the Land Resource Information System (LRIS) portal offers environment data held by Landcare Research for re-use in GIS and mapping applications.
This guidance note provides practical advice for agencies when selecting the formats for releasing public information and data for re-use in accordance with the NZ Government Open…
The data.govt.nz, Open Data Programme and Stats NZ teams got together at the Service Innovation Lab last week to share experiences, compare notes and ideate around models that could serve users better in data discovery and use.
The New Zealand Open Data Meetups, despite COVID-19 lockdown, were able to safely gather and talk about experiences, data frustrations and ideas to help in these unusual times.
Read about the work involved to make a machine readable version of the Family Services Directory available on data.govt.nz and how it's being used to power other digital services.
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.
This guide provides expanded information about the Data capability framework, including the levels of capability, descriptions of use, and example use cases.