[CivicAccess-discuss] Opendata.gc.ca report

Fri May 20 22:01:02 AEST 2011

excellent!

I will go an request some of what you did as well,

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:39 AM, James McKinney <oxford.tuxedo at gmail.com>wrote:

> I had requested the shapefile containing all postal codes, but I am
> not optimistic about this request (not the shapefile for only forward
> sortation areas, which Statscan has for about $400, or only postal
> code to electoral district mappings, which Statscan has for about
> $2500). I wonder what opendata.gc.ca will do about datasets that are
> already available, but at a price. Is there any point in requesting
> Statscan paid data be added? I also wonder how it interacts with the
> data generated by Crown corporations. I think Canada Post would be the
> source of the data I requested. I haven't gotten a response to this
> request from when opendata.gc.ca was launched.
>
> Anyway, I just requested the following. The first five are publicly
> available online and are clearly backed by a database, so it should be
> easy for the government to export them in a machine-readable format.
> Please feel free to modify the requests and submit them yourselves. I
> am more optimistic about these.
>
>
> 1. Canada Revenue Agency
>
> I would like the full Charities Listings database as open data, in a
> machine-redable format such as CSV or XML. The database is browsable
> here: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/advancedsearch-eng.action
>
> Ideally, the charities' returns would also be made available in a
> machine-readable format, for example: http://goo.gl/cncrh The returns
> should include all attached worksheets (e.g. "Directors/Trustees and
> Like Officials Worksheet") and schedules (e.g. "Schedule 3 -
> Compensation").
>
>
> 2. Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
>
> Each departmental web site has its own "Proactive Disclosure" section
> that contains disclosures of (1) Travel and Hospitality Expenses, (2)
> Contracts, (3) Position Reclassifications, and (4) Grant and
> Contribution Awards. These disclosures are then broken up into time
> periods and again broken up by employee, vendor, or recipient.
>
> I would like to have this data to be made available in a
> machine-readable format such as CSV (comma-separated value). A full
> list of participating departments is listed here:
> http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pd-dp/gr-rg/index-eng.asp
>
>
> 3. Industry Canada
>
> I would like the full Federal Corporation database made available as
> open data in a machine-readable format such as CSV or XML. The
> database is online here:
>
> https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpSrch.html?locale=en_CA
>
>
> 4. Parliament of Canada
>
> The Parliament of Canada maintains a database of all members of the
> House of Commons and the Senate since Confederation, with considerable
> detail on each member and his or her functions. The databases are
> accessible here http://goo.gl/uPHAs and here
> http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/lists/senators.aspx
>
> The above two databases are within the PARLINFO section of the web site.
>
> The Parliament of Canada has a second database of House of Commons MPs
> that is not as historical, but contains some data not contained in the
> PARLINFO database. It is available here:
> http://www.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx
>
> The Senate likewise is represented in a second database, available
> here:
> http://www.parl.gc.ca/SenatorsMembers/Senate/SenatorsBiography/ISenator.asp?Language=E
>
> I would like all datasets to be made available. If consolidation is
> easy, then a consolidated dataset per house is preferred. However,
> whichever option is most expedient is best in the short term.
>
> I would like each dataset to be made available as open data in a
> machine-readable format (for example, CSV or XML).
>
>
> 5. Library of Parliament
>
> The Parliament of Canada web site has a database of all General
> Election and By-Election results going back to Confederation:
>
> http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=G
>
> I would like this dataset of electoral results made available as open
> data in a machine-readable format, e.g. as CSV or XML.
>
>
> 6. Elections Canada
>
> GeoGratis provides Digital Federal Electoral District Boundary Files
> and Digital Polling Division Boundary Files for all elections since
> 2000. I would like the same files for as many previous elections as
> possible.
>
>
> 7. Elections Canada
>
> Elections Canada offers the Transposition of Votes and Transposition
> of Population for the 2004 Federal Representation Order. However,
> these are only available as PDF, which is not easily machine-readable.
> If the tabular data contained in the PDFs were made available in a
> machine-readable format such as CSV or XML, it would be much more
> valuable. I would like this dataset made available in a
> machine-readable format.
>
> I would also like the Transposition of Votes and Transposition of
> Population for as many other Representation Orders as possible to be
> similarly made available.
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > All;
> > I met with Stephen Walker, Senior Director, Information Management
> Division,
> > CIOB at Treasury Board Secretariat who oversees the opendata.gc.ca pilot
> > project.
> > Stephen strongly suggested that we put in requests for the data we want.
> >  For instance the Postal Code files, all of you who want it, request it.
> >  Also, currently, there are no data from HRSDC, Industry Canada, CMHC,
> and a
> > host of other departments.  But if you have an interest in a particular
> > file, or issues, and you have some idea as to where it might be in the
> > institution, then make a request.
> > For the time being the doors are opening, but so much more work needs to
> be
> > done, and instead of waiting for  the entire department or agency to get
> > ready, he can take your ask and present them as a short list, a place to
> > start.
> > It looks like the pilot is going to stay, but it will only get better if
> we
> > ask for what we want and actually use the data that are already there.
> > Cheers
> > t
> > --
> > Tracey P. Lauriault
> > 613-234-2805
> > http://traceyplauriault.ca/
> >
> >
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