[open-government] update of Canadian national open data portal, contest coming

[Richard Akerman]

Canada's national portal

http://data.gc.ca/

has relaunched on CKAN with Drupal front-end.
You can see some of the code here

https://github.com/open-data/ckanext-canada

There's a new license that is harmonized with some other Canadian
jurisdictions

http://www.data.gc.ca/eng/open-government-licence-canada

There will also be a national open data competition.

"a National Open Data Challenge and Appathon using federal datasets, which
will take place in the fall"

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/media/nr-cp/2013/0618-eng.asp

--
Richard Akerman
scilib at gmail.com
http://scilib.typepad.com/

Twitter: @scilib
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/attachments/20130618/36f47a18/attachment.html>