Who’s Sharing?
This is a terrific volunteer initiative led by my friend David Eaves. Instead of waiting for the federal government to build an open data portal (which, given the current federal government’s attitude to openness, could well be a long wait), the Datadotgc.ca team has done it themselves, tracking open datasets, profiling ministries and agencies that are doing a good job of sharing and giving a little kick in the pants to those that aren’t.
I also love that the site doesn’t just list datasets, but offers opportunities for visitors to contribute their time and help build the site.
The development team includes a number of people including the people at Raised Eyebrow Web Studio, Luke Closs, and a number of fantastic coders from the Open Knowledge Foundation. There are also some great people over at the Datadotgc.ca Google Group who have helped scrape data, tested for bugs and been supportive in lots of nice ways.
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