New Zealand signed up to the Open Data Charter in 2017. This page provides an overview of our approach to implementing the Charter.
1975. The Corolla ruled, mix tapes were a ‘thing’ and the Stats Act became law. How things change! Actually… the legislation hardly has. It doesn’t even feature the word ‘data’. Far-out!
Tikanga are appropriate customary practices or ‘layers of the culture’ developed by Māori communities and individuals and informed by common cultural values and concepts.
Knowing the quality of the input sources is important to ensure resulting information is fit-for-purpose. Without this knowledge the wrong assumptions could be made when transforming the data into information, jeopardising the quality of the output.
The first iteration of the Government Data System Future Design Narrative provides an early-stage ideation of what the Aotearoa New Zealand government data system could look like in future.
Earlier today, the first of a new GCDS speaker series, Raraunga Ara Rau, took place at Stats NZ. Read more about it here.
As the agency leading New Zealand’s data, Stats NZ’s quarterly dashboard profiles what we’re doing to support our role as the lead agency for New Zealand’s data.
Metadata describes your dataset to others in a standardised way. Having good quality metadata helps people discover and use your dataset. This guidance provides a description and examples of good practice metadata when releasing on data.govt.nz.
The data.govt.nz, Open Data Programme and Stats NZ teams got together at the Service Innovation Lab last week to share experiences, compare notes and ideate around models that could serve users better in data discovery and use.
Introduction1 When NZGOAL was first released in August 2010, it supported use of the Creative Commons 3.0 New Zealand licences. At that time, this made obvious…