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.
A cross-government working party developed the plan, using a prioritisation framework. The development was overseen by the Information Group.
Examples of how start-ups and small businesses also gain particular advantages from using open data.
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.
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…
This paper explores barriers currently preventing agencies from providing more open data that is comparable and interoperable.
This page outlines the Open Data Charter implementation plan for Aotearoa NZ. It covers our obligations as a signatory, the timeline of work included in the plan and the goals of the first iteration of the implementation plan.
The mandated standard to be used to format street address information for sharing purposes.
The census is one of New Zealand’s most important data sources. Statistics NZ released aggregated, confidentialised data from the 2006 Census including information on age, ethnicity, income, workplace, dwelling size and other variables.
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.