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    - The document analyzes open data portals in 5 major Canadian cities to determine the proportion of cultural resources included. - In 2012, cultural resources made up 8.5% of total datasets, and in 2013 this increased slightly to 10%. However, cultural content itself made up only 0.4% of total datasets. - Only Montreal released open cultural content such as digitized photographs and maps, but this was by far the most popular dataset on its portal.

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    - The document analyzes open data portals in 5 major Canadian cities to determine the proportion of cultural resources included. - In 2012, cultural resources made up 8.5% of total datasets, and in 2013 this increased slightly to 10%. However, cultural content itself made up only 0.4% of total datasets. - Only Montreal released open cultural content such as digitized photographs and maps, but this was by far the most popular dataset on its portal.

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    OPEN DATA & CULTURE IN CANADIAN CITIES

    What is the proportion of cultural resources in open data portals? METHODOLOGY: Survey of 5 major Canadian city portals of open data Data collected in April 2012 and April 2013 Category building for open cultural data & content

    Nathalie Casemajor Loustau _ SHRC postdoc fellow _ McGill University _ ncasemajor@gmail.com

    OPEN

    is a status characterized by

    1. Public availability online


    as a catalogue of datasets

    2. Standards 3. Licenses

    interoperable formats, non-proprietary, machine-readable structured data gratis, no exclusive rights, allows commercial use

    CONTEXT
    Creation of the World Data Centre for the International Geophysical Year ARPANET open protocols Freedom of Information Act (USA) UNIX operating system GNU Project operating system Access to Information Act (Canada) Free Software Foundation Linux operating system Data Liberation Initiative (StatsCan) Open Source Initiative Open Government Act (USA) USA federal open data portal Vancouver & Toronto open data portals Edmonton & Ottawa open data portals Open Government Resolution (Canada) Montreal open data portal Canadian federal portal Quebec city open data portal 1957 1960s 1966 1969 1983 1984 1991 1993 1998 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012

    SURVEY RESULTS CULTURAL SETS IN OPEN DATA PORTALS 2012 / 2013


    SET CATEGORY single events list of monuments list of organizations list of activities list of events historical data catalogue (ex. library) images (content) funding other
    2013 2012

    QUEBEC

    MONTREAL

    EDMONTON

    OTTAWA

    TORONTO

    VANCOUVER

    TOTAL
    19 12 4 6 3 7 4 4(-2) 2 4 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1

    OPEN RESOURCES
    can refer either to DATA
    . information organized as lists of elements and attributes (ex. monuments and their geographical coordinates) . can take the form of metadata for cultural content (e.g. descriptive information about a collection of digital photographs)

    31
    10 10 6 6 4 3 3 2 1 76 783 10%

    or CONTENT
    . cultural content comprises collections of digitized objects with cultural, historical or heritage value . e.g. Montreal released digitized photographs and historical maps from the City archives BUT the issue with cultural content is that public institutions often impose fees on the use of digitized archives and other collections, even if these materials are in the public domain

    TOTAL

    TOTAL CULTURAL SETS 2013 2012 TOTAL ALL SETS % CULTURAL SETS

    10 5 32 16

    15 48

    5 4 47 22

    9 69

    16 17

    33

    5 8 5(-2) 18 55 73

    3 5 33 85

    8 118

    39 39 (-2) 322 461 +1,5% 8,5%

    156 309 153 11% 11%

    26 166 140
    2% 2%

    31% 31%

    -5% 13% 18%

    +2% 11% 9%

    +1% 7% 6%

    CONCLUSION
    Cultural resources represent a marginal proportion of datasets and their ratio did not rise signicantly between 2012 (8,5%) and 2013 (10%)

    Cultural content represents a tiny fraction (0,4%) of total sets . only one city (Montreal) released open cultural content . but this is by far the most popular resource on its portal (15 100 views / 9 300 views for the second most popular set)

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