Responses to our online consultation question 1 (Page 33)

This is what we have heard in response to our online consultation question 1: "What could be done to make it easier for you to find and use government data provided online?"

• Create one central portal, catalog or map (all government open data);

• much more should be made interoperable and searchable ;

• open source;

• compatible, machine readable format (XML, RDF), GIS integrated;

• the search will make access more relevant and useful;

• semantic Web, ontology, metadata, definitions, data mapping, categorize the data, taxonomies;

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- Yuri Stanovych

License agreements for usage and distribution of derivatives of data need to be clear. Whether a use is "commercial" or not is often an inappropriate term as it is also often not well defined.

- Russell McOrmond

Par des interfaces de divulgation pro-active comme le fait actuellement la société Radio-Canada. Pour que toutes les

Demandes d'accès à l'imformation qui ont été repondu une fois par un ministère soit disponible à tous ensuite.

- Pierre-Luc

My chances of finding the appropriate data increase when more data is made available. As much data as is reasonable and possible should be made available to the people. When the information can be published easily in both languages, it should be, but this should never restrict the government from publishing any data that it has, in its original language.

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- Jason White

Let us know about it in the first place :)

The Government of Canada does a great job overall in delivering services, but as a young Canadian, I find myself constantly surprised by the existence of projects like the Adverse Reaction Database [http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/databasdon/index-eng.php].

There’s a ton of amazing stuff being accomplished by public servants, but a really lacklustre job is being done in promoting them.

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- Edward Ocampo-Gooding