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About Open Data

Open data catalogues provide currated, machine-readable shareable (public domain or creative commons licensed) data sets. Currators are responsible for data integrity and version control. Datasets can be used by anyone to create apps, maps, visualizations, etc.

Open data / Open gov

DataBC
Find data from across the province in DataBC’s data catalogue
BC Water Data and Tools
Modernization of the Water Act
Open Data Portal Vancouver
BC Budgets

Access to Information & Freedom of Information Requests

Access in the Academy: Bringing ATI & FOI to Academic Research (BC)
Access in the Academy, developed by the Freedom of Information and Privacy Association and Mike Larsen of Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Instructor, Dept. of Criminology), and generously funded by the Law Foundation of British Columbia, is a brand new educational resource that provides a unique and practical look at how researchers, students, and others in the higher education can make the most of FOI and ATI practices.

Access to Information and Social Justice by Jamie Brownlee (Editor); Kevin Walby (Editor)
Call Number: JL86 S43A23
ISBN: 9781894037679
Publication Date: 2015-12-01
Access in the academy : bringing ATI and FOI to academic research by Larsen, Mike,
Call Number: McPherson Library KE5325 L372 and online
Publication Date: British Columbia Freedom of Information and Privacy Association 2014

Open Information BC
Includes access to travel expenses, salaries, and released Access to information requests.