Government Operations committee  If we're talking about the federal public service...because I think, too, that when the point was originally made by the witness, he meant the public service in general. Certainly for federal data, provincial and municipal employees are a gigantic number of users for us. I think

Government Operations committee  There are two points. First, we have to allow individual departments to apply the criteria individually, because there are individual legislations and mandates within each department that may place restrictions on that data. Certain legislation doesn't allow for the data to be s

Government Operations committee  Sure. Yes, we have. As we mentioned, we've identified a lead-specific open data coordinator in every department. We then charge the open data coordinators, let's say in Environment Canada, to be able to go out to the business areas of Environment Canada, find out what data shoul

Government Operations committee  I think the answer is yes. I'm not sure we can quantify the answer specifically, but certainly for a department to make a decision to share a data set with the world, they've shared it with the rest of the government by default. What we see happening is all kinds of increased col

Government Operations committee  If I could just say one more thing....

Government Operations committee  Canada has signed on to the international aid transparency initiative, IATI, which is basically an offshoot of just that kind of thinking, that Canada can't compare its international aid data to any other country's and no other country can compare theirs to ours. IATI gets founde

Government Operations committee  There's another one for extractive resources. There's another one for financing.

Government Operations committee  Yes, continuously.

Government Operations committee  I think that if we continue to follow the road we're following now, the aspirations we have for federated open data will be met. We'll be talking about a world where you can go to any one of an unlimited number of portals, search data and be able to pick which jurisdictions you w

Government Operations committee  That's a great question. If we assume an open-by-default regime, then we're just accepting data that can't be published. All the rest of the data, by default, will be published. So what is the criteria that we will use to accept data? We have an operational checklist that we us

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure of the context of his comment. I certainly know that he has been consistent with his feedback that we need to prioritize data. The CIO mentioned that it's pretty hard to make all the data available in one fell swoop, so we need to be able to try to target the data th

Government Operations committee  It has been highlighted for a few specific subject areas, and agriculture specifically, mostly as a result of G-8 discussions. Canada has been asked, as a number of other countries have been asked, to publish data related to its agricultural activities because it is immediately u

Government Operations committee  The area of measuring impact associated with open data is an ongoing concern and pursuit for most jurisdictions. As was mentioned, I chair the OGP committee on open data, and we've been asked by the OGP to make a specific line of activity related to the measurement of impact. T

Government Operations committee  That's another key area. Most of the time when people are talking about standards and open data standards, that's what we're talking about. As an example, there's an undertaking for OGP countries to come up with a standardized view of the metadata that should be used to describ

Government Operations committee  Yes, and there are a couple of organizations currently, Schema.org and World Wide Web Foundation. There are different actors. Someone already mentioned the Open Knowledge Foundation. There are a bunch of organizations that are feeding into the development of these standards. As