[CivicAccess-discuss] OECD Report & related data

[Teresa Scassa]

Major reforms to Canada’s access to information regime are proposed in a Private Member’s Bill tabled in the House yesterday.  The link is to the news story.  I haven’t yet found the text of the bill online, but I am sure it will be posted sometime today.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-wants-government-open-by-default-mulcair-delighted-1.2671863


Teresa
From: civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca [mailto:civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca] On Behalf Of Tracey P. Lauriault
Sent: June-12-14 7:07 AM
To: civicaccess discuss; Canadian Association of Public Data Users
Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] OECD Report & related data

This is the report that is making headlines in Canada (http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/the-causes-of-growing-inequalities-in-oecd-countries_9789264119536-en).  This is how reports should be shared with the public:

  *   You get a full PDF
  *   You get and interactive table of contents with the document also available by section in PDF and readable
  *   You get the tables available in xls and to read
  *   You get the graphs in xls which you can also read

When I go to open data portals, this is what I would expect to get.  All datasets should at least be accompanied by a methodological document which describes how the data were collected, how they were analyzed, sources, descriptions of the headings/classes, quality parametes well described.  Also all government reports should be in the portals with their accompanying datasets as this OECD report does.

Cheers
t

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