Data Portals
Data portals are websites that are dedicated to store and provide data.
There are many kinds of data available, such as :
- geographic data
- statistic data
- and many more..
Usually, data portals has a license for their data. The most common is the Creative Commons License By Attribution (CC-BY), where you can use the data freely but you have to attribute the data source.
Examples of data portals : http://data.gov.au http://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au http://data.gov.sg
Data portals also allows you to play around with the data : https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Environment/Melbourne-s-Urban-Forest-Tree-data/fp38-wiyy
Other data portals focused more on another type of data such as spatial : http://map.aurin.org.au/
Example
We can also mash up the data with other data :
- Get Melbourne data of public toilets https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Assets-Infrastructure/Map-of-Public-Toilets/
- Upload the data to AURIN
- Show the wheelchair toilets and compare it with the population census data
Exercise
Using the data from the City of Melbourne Data Portal, make a mesh up of the data with AURIN and share your creation in the Etherpad