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Add government datasets to the listing on data.govt.nz.
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.
Data.govt.nz's datasets, organisations and groups can be accessed and queried as JSON date through the metadata API; this page describes how.
Obviously, data.govt.nz often includes numbers, dates, and times. To ensure that these are easy to read and understand, we follow clear rules and guidelines.
NumbersIn general:
we use…
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.
In January 2019, we published the content strategy and style guide for data.govt.nz. We'd love to get your feedback.
A cross-government working party developed the plan, using a prioritisation framework. The development was overseen by the Information Group.
On Thursday 18th November at 8pm we'll be releasing an updated version of data.govt.nz. This will result in a very brief outage to the website and…
Guidance and tutorials on using the data.govt.nz catalogue to publish open data listings. This includes a helpful checklist, general user help and specific 'how to' articles for New Zealand government agencies listing open datasets.