The data.govt.nz DataStore API allows you to access and query the rows and columns of raw data listed by agencies in machine readable CSV format via a JSON API endpoint.
Background
Ministerial press release: Guidelines unlock govt software for innovation
Loomio discussion: NZGOAL Software Extension
Case study: NZGOAL Software Extension consultation process
Consultation archive and analytics report | data pack
NZGOAL software extension…
To address the inequities suffered by Māori and other minorities, research must include strong participation with the community of focus and meet the data related obligations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and human rights considerations.
Te Papa has used Wellington City Council's freely available cyber twin of Wellington City so museum visitors can explore the impact of tsunamis.
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.
This paper explores barriers currently preventing agencies from providing more open data that is comparable and interoperable.
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.
Learn the basics about data dictionaries. What are they, what do they look like, and what could they include?
Having a conversationA data dictionary is a conversation…
A data dictionary describes your data. It describes the choices made about column names, codes, methods, or sampling. It enables anyone to better find, understand, reuse,…
A high-level summary of the framework, providing information on the underlying context and issues addressed, drivers, primary components, and benefits. This summary was written by Kevin…