[CivicAccess-discuss] OECD Report & related data

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

nice  - I hope!


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Teresa Scassa <Teresa.Scassa at uottawa.ca>
wrote:

>  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.
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> http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-wants-government-open-by-default-mulcair-delighted-1.2671863
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> Teresa
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> *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
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> 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:
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>    - 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
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> 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.
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> Cheers
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> Tracey P. Lauriault
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