Digital Odyssey 2013: BIG DATA, Small World
Friday June 7
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street (1 street north of Bloor)
Toronto ON M4W 2G8
1. Open Data Policy in Canada
Tracey P. Lauriault
Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
Carleton University
(http://gcrc.carleton.ca)
Digital Odyssey 2013: BIG DATA, Small World
Friday June 7
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street (1 street north of Bloor)
Toronto ON M4W 2G8
2. Table of Contents
1. The globe
2. Open Data Examples
3. Where to get data
4. Data advocacy
5. Data policy
6. Librarian Powers
3. Blue Marble
Joseph Campbell “the society of the Planet” from the Power of the Myth
in reference to the Blue Marble Image released by NASA in 1972
11. Citizen – Transparency Les appels d’offres et certain
contrats octroyés de la Ville de
Montréal et la province du
Québec (version détaillée ici)
Le registre des entreprises du
Canada
Les dons au partis politiques
du Canada
Les dons aux partis politiques
du Québec
Le registre des lobbyistes du
gouvernment fédéral(aussi
registre et journal)
Licenses restreintes dans
l'industrie de la construction
Les contrats octroyés par la
Ville de Laval depuis 2007
Les contrats octroyés par la
Ville de Montréal depuis 2006
http://quebecouvert.org/events/hackonslacorruption/
13. Citizen - Entrepreneur
http://ajah.ca/home/
All 10,000 public and
private foundations.
Exhaustive list of
federal and provincial
funding programs
specifically for non-
profits (over 700).
Corporate funders
(500 and growing).
14. Research – Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy
Data & Software
- Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework (BSD)
- Geogratis Framework & Topographic Data (Unrestricted terms of use)
- Flow lines collected by different hunters (Shared rights)
- More sensitive data – e.g. Bear Dens, sacred sites, environmentally
sensitive data are for viewing & use by the community only
- Data will become part of IPY Canada
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/ISIUOP/Inuit+Sea+Ice+Use+and+Occupancy+Project+(ISIUOP)
15. Community - Place Names
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Atlases
16. Territory – Treaty Process
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/The+Lake+Huron+Treaty+Atlas
26. Transportation planner
Données sources
Au niveau municipal, les données
sont accessibles indirectement sur
le site de la ville de Montréal.
En d'autres termes, ces données
n'ont pas été prévues pour être
utilisées de manière directe mais
sont affichées sur une carte dans
la section Info-Travaux.
Au niveau provinciale, les
données viennent du Ministère
des transports du Québec et
de son service Québec 511. Là
aussi le MTQ se démarque de ses
homologues canadiens en étant a
priori le premier à proposer
des données GPS pour la
localisation des chantiers.
http://zonecone.ca/
28. Disaster monitoring
Safecast is a global sensor
network for collecting and
sharing radiation
measurements to empower
people with data about their
environments
http://blog.safecast.org/
29. Remote Sensing & Human Rights
AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program
Satellite Imagery Analysis for Urban Conflict Documentation: Aleppo, Syria
http://srhrl.aaas.org/geotech/syria/aleppo.htm
31. Federal Data
Geogratis & Geobase & Discovery Portal – Natural
Resources Canada
Treasury Board of Canada – OpenData.gc.ca
Research Data Canada – National Research Council
Data Liberation Initiative – ALMOST OPEN –
Statistics Canada & Universities
Data dot GC.ca – Citizen’s initiative to Inspire the
Canadian Government
Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA) Open Data
36. Provinces
1. Ontario Open Data
2. Alberta Open Data
3. Données ouvertes Portail du Gouvernement du
Québec, Québec Ouvert – Citizen Led
4. BC: Data BC, OpenData BC- Citizen Led and B.C.’s
Climate Change Data Catalogue is a composite
listing of publicly available data related to climate
change, with a focus on British Columbia data.
5. Open Data Saskatchewan, Citizen Led
38. Open Data Cities
1. Banff Open Data Portal, (AB) Pilot
2. City of Brandon (MB)
3. City of Burlington (ON), Pilot
4. City of Calgary (AB)
5. City of Edmonton (AB)
6. City of Fredericton (NB)
7. Portail de données ouvertes de la ville de
Gatineau, Gatineau Ouverte (QC) – Citizen
Led
8. County of Grande Prairie (AB)
9. City of Guelph (ON), Guelph Coffee and
Code – Citizen Led
10. Halifax Regional Municipality (NS)
11. City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON),
Open Data Hamilton – Citizen Led
12. OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led
13. City of London (ON), OpenData London –
Citizen Led
14. Township of Langley (BC)
15. Open Data Medicine Hat (AB)
16. City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data
(ON)
17. Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes (QC),
Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led
18. City of Nanaimo (BC)
19. City of Niagara Falls (ON
20. Region of Niagara (ON)
21. Regional District of North Okanagan (BC)
22. District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb
23. City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group – OpenData
Ottawa; Apps
24. Region of Peel (ON)
25. City of Prince George (BC)
26. Ville de Québec Catalogue de données, Capitale
Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville de Québec
27. City of Red Deer, Alberta
28. City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data site
29. Open Data Saskatoon, interim portal
30. City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog
31. City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group
32. City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki
33. City of Victoria (BC)
34. Open Data (city) Waterloo (ON).
35. Region of Waterloo (ON), Region of Waterloo –
Citizen Led,
36. City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog
47. Public Consultations
20102002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
National Data Archive Consultation
(SSHRC)
Stewardship of
Research Data in
Canada: A Gap
Analysis
Open Government Consultations
(TBS)
Mapping the Data Landscape:
Report of the 2011 Canadian
Research Data Summit
2011
GeoConnections study on Archiving,
Management and Preservation of Geospatial
Data
National Consultation on Access to Scientific
Data Final Report (NCASRD)
Toward a National Digital Information Strategy:
Mapping the Current Situation in Canada (LAC)
Canadian Digital Information
Strategy (CDIS) (LAC)
Digital Economy Consultation,
Industry Canada (IC)
55. Law and Policy
Mapping the Legal and Policy
Boundaries of Digital Cartography
(SSHRC Partnership Project)
- Centre for Law, Technology and
Society
- Natural Resources Canada
- Geomatics and Cartographic
Research Centre
Ethics and Consent in Arctic Digital
Research
- Interdisciplinary, historical & cultural
study of consent
- Examine Consent Models in the North
- Consult w/ northern data contributors
- Consult w/ researchers & officials
- GCRC & CLTS will Develop a data consent
model
- GCRC to Build a data collection consent
framework into data collection technology
56. GCRC – Guiding Principles
• Products produced w/public funds belong to the public
Whenever possible open access comes first
BSD License
Use data from open access sources
Creative Commons
Share as much as possible
Publish in Open Access Journals
Create and use open source software, tools, widgets, etc.
Design for open source browsers
Participate in open access, open data, open source for a
Build in consent and data access protocols into data collection tools
Conduct research on access to data, consent, law and policy
Encourage these principles in public consultations
Education & Capacity building
Adhere to interoperability standards and specifications
Data Preservation
57. Librarian Powers can be used to…
Point to these data & apps
Point citizens to data resources
Examine & evaluate portals
Cataloguing expertise
Data & app curation
Be a citizen librarian at hackfest & hackathons
Contribute expertise in public consultations
Advise your city, prov. & fed gov’ts
Develop a local advisory/reference group for non profits
Volunteer in a local org. & help w/their data resources (e.g., librarians
w/out borders)
Campbell thought this image spoke to us cosmographically, not viewed as a scientific object nor as data, it had power to change worldviews and affect human behaviour. “It might be the symbol of a new mythology to come. That is the country we are going to be celebrating. And those are the people that we are one with”.Now there is the NASA gateway, CCRS portal, Radarsat and sovereignty debates, land use composites using satellite imagery, GoogleMaps, used in human rights work American Association for the Advancement of Science and Amnesty International, Earth Day, One World One Voice, Whole Earth, global citizenship, normative use as a popular media and in scientific practice.This image, and the satellite images and products made as a result of these, are part of the continuum of imaginative responses to contemporary issues.The infrastructure that created this image is part of the techno-political regime of space and military technology, and part of the information ecologies of geographical science, technology, industry and libraries to name a few.This image is part of a long line of images, models, descriptions of earth, the world and the globe, that went from organic notions to social and to the spatial approaches and the spatiality of geometry, and these have been shaping identities and actions for centuries (Cosgrove)
The Water and Environmental Hub (WEHUB) project is a cloud-based, open source web platform that’s making it easier for individuals and organizations to find, access, and share water and environmental data. What differentiates our approach from many others is our scalable and robust, cloud-based IT platform and web-based applications that support a wide variety of datasets and international data standards. This allows the WEHUB to provide open and transparent access to many different types of environmental datasets from many different public and private sector data providers.
In August 2012, Amnesty International, USA (AIUSA) requested the assistance of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to investigate the veracity and details of human rights-related reports stemming from the escalating conflict in Aleppo, Syria. Located in the northwestern area of the country (Figure One), Aleppo is Syria's largest city and commercial hub, with a population of over two million people. On 15 July 2012, the International Committee of the Red Cross characterized the escalating conflict as a "civil war", a designation that has since entered into common usage in media reporting.1 Since 19 July 2012, reports indicate that government and opposition forces have continued to clash both around and within the city. The conflict in Aleppo has led to accounts of heavy fighting, widespread shelling by tanks and artillery, and numerous civilian casualties.2
Nunavut Arctic College 2011, Aug. 2011, Arctic research: Jamal Shirley at NRI, Janelle Kennedy with the Nunavut Dept. of the Environment, people at Inuit Heritage Trust, Parks Canada, the Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre, and a few others. Timothy Di Leo Browne, School of Canadian Studies - (IPY Data Legacy)Dr. DR Fraser Taylor, GCRC DirectorDr. Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law, CLTSDr. Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce, University of Ottawa, Faculty of LawDr. Chidi Oguamanam, CLTSDr. Elizabeth Judge, CLTSDavid Fewer, CLTSAnn Martin, Director, Data Dissemination, Natural Resources CanadaAmos Hayes, GCRC Technical DirectorNate J. Engler, GCRC Research AssistantTracey P. Lauriault, GCRC Research Assistant