Cultural Organizations and Groups
Location, contact information, and other key information about Ottawa's cultural organizations.
Date Created: March 2026
Update Frequency: Semi Annually
Accuracy, Completeness, and Known Issues: The cultural mapping team makes an effort to verify the data submitted.
Attributes:
- Unique ID – This is a unique identifier for each cultural space in the dataset.
- Name – The current name of a cultural group or organization.
- Nom – This field is used if the space has different English and French names.
- Structure – Denotes Business, Not for Profit, Student Group etc.
- Structure FR – Structure in French.
- Category – See below for category descriptions. Used for search.
- Categorie – Category in French.
- Sub-category – Another level of categorization. Used for search.
- Sub Categorie – Sub-category in French.
- Associated Tags – Key words associated with a cultural space. Used for search.
- Mots Cles – Tags in French.
- Language – Language of Communication
- Laugue – Language of Communication French
- Email – All contact info was collected from public sources.
- Website / Main SM Profile.
- Website / Main SM Profile French.
- Physical Address – Civic address in English.
- Adresse Physique – Civic address in French.
- Latitude – Geographic coordinate.
- Longitude – Geographic coordinate.
Categories and Sub-categories: The following categories and Sub-categories align with the Statistics Canada table for Cultural Groups classification.
- Heritage and Libraries.
- Archives - includes archival collections and services.
- Libraries - includes library collections and services.
- Cultural Heritage - includes artifacts, collections (incl. antiques) and services such as museums, public art galleries, art museums, historic sites, historic buildings, planetaria, and archaeological sites.
- Natural Heritage - includes collections and services such as botanical gardens, aquaria, zoological sites, and national parks, provincial parks and reserves, conservancy sites, and conservation areas with interpretation.
- Live Performance.
- Performing Arts - live performances by individuals and companies of theatre (incl. musical and dinner theatre), opera, dance, orchestras, music, circuses, magic shows, ice shows, puppet theatre, mime shows, etc. as well as services such as promoters and presenters of performing arts.
- Festivals and Celebrations - live performed events, festivals, fairs and other celebrations with live performances of music, theatre, dance, comedy, improvisation, multidisciplinary events, and services of promoters and presenters of live performed events.
- Visual and Applied Arts.
- Original Visual Art - paintings, drawings, pastels, engravings, prints, lithographs, sculptures.
- Art Reproductions - copies of original visual arts, produced with the use of technology, such as unlimited edition prints, posters, statuettes, and ornaments.
- Photography - traditional still and digital photography services, covering all fields including portrait, wedding, action, and specialty, commercial and industrial services.
- Crafts - hand-made artisanal goods from all materials, including textiles, jewelry, pottery, statues, ceramics, furniture, housewares, musical instruments, etc.
- Advertising - includes design and development of advertisements.
- Architecture - includes residential, non-residential, landscape and urban design services.
Design - includes graphic, interior, industrial, jewellery, fashion and other specialty design services.
- Written and Published Works.
- Books - all published content and formats, regardless of delivery platform, including print, audio-books and eBooks, as well as dissemination services such as book fairs, literary festivals, reading series, and related events.
- Periodicals - all published content and formats, regardless of delivery platform, including print, on-line versions, webzines (e-zines), and other digital and electronic publishing and delivery, as well as dissemination services such as magazine fairs and related events.
- Newspapers - all published content and formats, regardless of delivery platform, including print, electronic, and web-based newspapers, as well as other digital and electronic publishing and delivery.
- Other Published Works - published materials (in print or electronic form) such as brochures, leaflets, postcards, greeting cards, and calendars.
- Collected Information - design and development of catalogues, directories and other publications of copyrighted collected information.
Multi Sub-Category (Printing, Support, and Retail of Published Works) - printing of books, art works, calendars, magazines, newspapers; support activities for printing of books, art works, calendars, magazines, newspapers; book, periodical and newspaper wholesaler-distributors and wholesalers; book stores and news dealers ; translation services , independent writers and authors.
- Audio-Visual and Interactive Media.
- Film and Video - feature films, short films, live action and animated films, documentaries, videos, and interactive movies, in all formats.
- Broadcasting - broadcasters and service providers of traditional, pay and specialty radio content; cable, pay and specialty television programming; and Internet-based broadcast content such as podcasts, on-line, streamed, and digital radio and television programs.
- Interactive Media - console games, on-line games, wireless games, and PC games as well as other related interactive digital edutainment products.
- Sound Recording.
- Sound Recording - sound recording services, record production, record reproduction, and distribution, in all formats, regardless of delivery platform.
Music Publishing - music composition and publishing, in all formats, regardless of delivery platform, including print music, on-line digital or downloaded content, sale of rights for performance, recording, reproduction, and other related rights.
- Professional Support*.
- Professional Support* – includes business, civic, civic and social organizations, labour organizations, other membership organizations (including arts councils), and entities providing programs related to culture. Category is marked with an asterisk to denote that it may not be officially recognized.
- Multi Category.
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting. Includes Vlogging, Live Streaming, Trade Shows (culture), and Craft Shows.
- Education and Training.
- Elementary School
- Secondary School
- Community Colleges and Cegeps.
- Universities
- Technical, Vocational, and Trade Schools
- Fine Art Schools
- Training
- Sports, Games and Recreation.
- Youth Sport
- Amateur Sport
- Professional Sport
- Games
- Martial Arts
- Recreation
- Supporters
- Community.
- 2SLGBTQIA+
- Ethno-Cultural
- Youth
- Older Adults
- Indigenous – includes Anishinabe Algonquin, Urban Indigenous, and inuit.
- Immigrants/Newcomers
- Food and Beverage.
- Restaurant
- Bar
- Mobile
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Data Steward: Andrew Cooper
Data Steward Email: [email protected]
Department or Agency: RCFS
Branch/Unit: CDI
Datasets available for download
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Cultural_Organizations_and_GroupsTable
Layer 0 via ArcGIS REST API
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Cultural_Organizations_and_Groups (Explore)HTML
Explore Cultural_Organizations_and_Groups on ArcGIS Hub
Additional Info
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| Last Updated | June 16, 2026, 17:25 (UTC) |
| Created | June 16, 2026, 17:25 (UTC) |
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Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
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Title
Title for the Dataset.
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Cultural Organizations and Groups |
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Description
A description of the dataset.
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Location, contact information, and other key information about Ottawa's cultural organizations. Date Created: March 2026
Categories and Sub-categories: The following categories and Sub-categories align with the Statistics Canada table for Cultural Groups classification.
Data Steward: Andrew Cooper
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Tags / Keywords
Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.
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Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
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Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
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1008.0 |
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Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
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Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
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2026-05-26 |
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Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
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Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
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public |
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License
License used to access the dataset.
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https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/open-transparent-and-accountable-government/open-data/about-open-data |
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Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
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Location
Location of the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::cultural-organizations-and-groups |
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Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
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Owner
Owner of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
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City of Ottawa |
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Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
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[email protected] |
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Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
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City of Ottawa |
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Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
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Author
Author of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Author Email
Email of the author.
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Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
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2026-05-26 |
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
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13e292ff5e4446ad8083a5c84331ecd6 |
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Language
Language(s) of the dataset
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English |
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Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::cultural-organizations-and-groups |
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Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
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Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
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Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
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Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
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Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
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Portal Type
Platform type of the source portal.
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Version
Version of the datatset
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None |
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Source
Source of the dataset.
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None |
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Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
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Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
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Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
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Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
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City of Ottawa |
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Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
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Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
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Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
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The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
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932 |
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Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
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32 |
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Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
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29824 |
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Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
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Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
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Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
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Data quality
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A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.
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