Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) What is Open Data? Why is the City offering Open Data? What is the City of Coquitlam Open Government Licence? What rights come with the City of Coquitlam Open Government Licence? Is personal information protected? Is there any cost to downloading the data? Will all City data be released? How often is the data updated? Will there be more data available in the future? How are datasets selected? How do I report a broken link or file? Where can I submit feedback and suggestions? What do I do if I find errors in the data? Who can I contact for assistance? Open Data refers to data that is made available online to be used, reused, and redistributed by anyone, anytime or anywhere. Offering public open data has become a best practice across the municipal government sector. Providing self-service access to City data will enhance customer service. Sharing select City data encourages innovation and economic development by making it available at no cost to the public, which in turn can be used by businesses to support their operations. Furthermore, an effective open data program improves the flow of information and increases transparency in decision-making. The Open Government Licence – Coquitlam is based on version 2.0 of the Open Government License – British Columbia, which was developed through public consultation and collaborative efforts by the provincial and federal government. The only change to the licence is references to the Province of British Columbia are replaced with the City of Coquitlam. For more information on this licence, please visit this page on the City’s web site (https://www.coquitlam.ca/894/Open-Government-Licence). You are free to: Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. You must, where you do any of the above: Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. If the City of Coquitlam does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Coquitlam. Yes, the City takes the protection of privacy and personal information very seriously. A privacy impact assessment will be undertaken for any new dataset that is added to the open data catalog. For more information on the City’s Privacy Policy, please visit this page on the City's web site (https://www.coquitlam.ca/124/Privacy-Policy). The City’s Open Data Portal uses Esri’s ArcGIS Hub Site technology. For more information on ArcGIS security and privacy please review the policies on https://trust.arcgis.com. No. All data in the catalog is provided free of charge. No. There are datasets that are subject to constraints such as legal, confidentiality, privacy and the protection of personal information that will prevent the City from sharing this data with the public. Most datasets are updated on a weekly basis and are subject to resource constraints and the timeliness of new information. Please consult the metadata of an item in the data catalog to view when it was last refreshed. Absolutely, this is the beginning of the City’s open data journey. An open data working group is being established to grow the program and implement the open data processes across the City. The initial data catalog consists of datasets that are readily available and are free from privacy restrictions. Priority will be given to information deemed to be in high demand. The open data working group will work with data stewards across the City to identify new candidate datasets and implement the processes to add them to the data catalog. Feedback from internal staff and the external community will be a source of input for potential new datasets. Please forward any issues to [email protected] and include the name of the dataset and a description of the problem. Please use the feedback form that is available on the Open Data portal (https://data.coquitlam.ca) to submit feedback, suggestions and requests for new datasets. Alternatively, you can send your request to [email protected]. Please forward any issues to [email protected] and include the name of the dataset and a description of the problem. All questions can be forwarded to [email protected]. If you encounter an issue with a download, then please include the name of the dataset and a description of the problem.
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Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
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Title for the Dataset.
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Description
A description of the dataset.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) What is Open Data? Why is the City offering Open Data? What is the City of Coquitlam Open Government Licence? What rights come with the City of Coquitlam Open Government Licence? Is personal information protected? Is there any cost to downloading the data? Will all City data be released? How often is the data updated? Will there be more data available in the future? How are datasets selected? How do I report a broken link or file? Where can I submit feedback and suggestions? What do I do if I find errors in the data? Who can I contact for assistance? Open Data refers to data that is made available online to be used, reused, and redistributed by anyone, anytime or anywhere. Offering public open data has become a best practice across the municipal government sector. Providing self-service access to City data will enhance customer service. Sharing select City data encourages innovation and economic development by making it available at no cost to the public, which in turn can be used by businesses to support their operations. Furthermore, an effective open data program improves the flow of information and increases transparency in decision-making. The Open Government Licence – Coquitlam is based on version 2.0 of the Open Government License – British Columbia, which was developed through public consultation and collaborative efforts by the provincial and federal government. The only change to the licence is references to the Province of British Columbia are replaced with the City of Coquitlam. For more information on this licence, please visit this page on the City’s web site (https://www.coquitlam.ca/894/Open-Government-Licence). You are free to: Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. You must, where you do any of the above: Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. If the City of Coquitlam does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Coquitlam. Yes, the City takes the protection of privacy and personal information very seriously. A privacy impact assessment will be undertaken for any new dataset that is added to the open data catalog. For more information on the City’s Privacy Policy, please visit this page on the City's web site (https://www.coquitlam.ca/124/Privacy-Policy). The City’s Open Data Portal uses Esri’s ArcGIS Hub Site technology. For more information on ArcGIS security and privacy please review the policies on https://trust.arcgis.com. No. All data in the catalog is provided free of charge. No. There are datasets that are subject to constraints such as legal, confidentiality, privacy and the protection of personal information that will prevent the City from sharing this data with the public. Most datasets are updated on a weekly basis and are subject to resource constraints and the timeliness of new information. Please consult the metadata of an item in the data catalog to view when it was last refreshed. Absolutely, this is the beginning of the City’s open data journey. An open data working group is being established to grow the program and implement the open data processes across the City. The initial data catalog consists of datasets that are readily available and are free from privacy restrictions. Priority will be given to information deemed to be in high demand. The open data working group will work with data stewards across the City to identify new candidate datasets and implement the processes to add them to the data catalog. Feedback from internal staff and the external community will be a source of input for potential new datasets. Please forward any issues to [email protected] and include the name of the dataset and a description of the problem. Please use the feedback form that is available on the Open Data portal (https://data.coquitlam.ca) to submit feedback, suggestions and requests for new datasets. Alternatively, you can send your request to [email protected]. Please forward any issues to [email protected] and include the name of the dataset and a description of the problem. All questions can be forwarded to [email protected]. If you encounter an issue with a download, then please include the name of the dataset and a description of the problem. |
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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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17.46 |
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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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2021-06-01 |
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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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License not specified |
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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://data.coquitlam.ca/datasets/Coquitlam::frequently-asked-questions-faq |
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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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gis_admin_Coquitlam |
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Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
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City of Coquitlam |
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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 Coquitlam |
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Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
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Author
Author of the dataset.
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gis_admin_Coquitlam |
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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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2021-06-15 |
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
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a3ddbc805f454d33a9bfa88cbfad9ea3 |
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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://data.coquitlam.ca/datasets/Coquitlam::frequently-asked-questions-faq |
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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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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 Coquitlam |
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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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Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
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Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
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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
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
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Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.
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