A draft checklist of the things you should consider before releasing open data.
Government agencies can publish and update their datasets on the data.govt.nz catalogue by applying for a publisher account.
Add government datasets to the listing on data.govt.nz.
Metadata describes your dataset to others in a standardised way. Having good quality metadata helps people discover and use your dataset. This guidance provides a description and examples of good practice metadata when releasing on data.govt.nz.
Learn how to prepare a machine readable CSV file and publish to the data.govt.nz data catalogue.
Public Service Commission ask agencies to disclose their Departmental Secretary or Chief Executive Expenses at least annually. Data.govt.nz allows you to self-manage the update process to the CE Expenses datasets. This allows agencies to publish faster and meet the disclosure deadline.
This walkthrough will help you correctly set up Creative Commons licences for your data layers in ArcGIS Online open data portal. Setting licences correctly here flows through to data.govt.nz when you make use of automated harvesting.
Data.govt.nz allows people to request open data from agencies with a data request form. This guidance page helps agencies resolve data requests they receive by using the response features built into data.govt.nz.
Data.govt.nz adopted an international data harvesting open standard (data.json) to automate agency dataset updates and additions. There are tools available to help generate the correct format and the open standard data schema is detailed with examples.
Machine and human readable formats, such as PDF, CSV, and XLS, ensures that you maximise the value of your open data while complying with open government data and information policies.
There are 15 key things you can do to ensure your data API is user-friendly.
Following best practice guidance from CERT NZ, we have made Publisher accounts on data.govt.nz more secure by using Multi-Factor Authentication.