Toronto Open Data

Toronto Open Data is an open data initiative by the city of Toronto. It provides a "world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats for any lawful purpose" with proper credit.[1] The goal of the open data is to make the "government open, accessible and transparent."[2]

Datasets

A catalogue of data such as Festivals and Events, Licensed Child Care Centers, Priority Investment Neighbourhoods, and Transit City have been released.[3] Further data such as crime data, homelessness data, city budget, councilor's expenses are expected to be open up in the future.

History

Toronto Open Data was launched at the Toronto Innovation Showcase forum on November 2, 2009.[4]

Comparable Initiatives

Many cities have launched open data initiatives. See data catalogues worldwide listed in http://datacatalogs.org/

Issues

As of 2010, Toronto Open Data required a click-through license for any reuse, which made it unsuitable for producing physical products (such as haptic maps for the blind).[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Terms of Use for our Datasets
  2. ↑ Toronto opens up
  3. ↑ Dataset Catalogue
  4. ↑ Toronto Launches Open Data Catalogue
  5. ↑ Toronto Open Data discriminates against blind people from Weait.com, December 20, 2010.

External links

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