LETHBRIDGE – The City of Lethbridge has launched the Open Data Catalogue, an online collection of datasets available to the public for free.
The catalogue is the latest step in the Intelligent Community Initiative and houses information on city facilities, election and census results, parks and recreation facilities, transportation, land use, and transit. The city says the selection of available datasets will expand over time.
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“The launch of this Open Data Catalogue is a significant early milestone for our overall Intelligent Community initiative,” said Doug Hawkins, director of infrastructure for the City of Lethbridge. “We’re making excellent progress.”
Open data is data that is freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. It is also machine-readable which allows people to do analysis, build apps, and use the data as they wish.
“I’m excited to see the innovative ways that people will use this data to create benefits for citizens, businesses and visitors,” said Kyle Davey, business technology manager for the City. “There are endless possibilities in the ways users can apply this data. They’re going to do things with this information that we can’t even imagine.”
The city says all data is thoroughly vetted to ensure no private citizen information is published.
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