Invitation: Canadian Urban Data Catalogue!
MANAV JAILKHANI
We wish to inform you of the launch of the Canadian Urban Data Catalogue (CUDC). CUDC facilitates the discovery of Canadian urban data by providing a catalogue that documents open and closed datasets and data web services, regardless of location. With the rapid growth of urban datasets, discovering the data you need is like finding a needle in a haystack. CUDC aims to alleviate this problem by providing a centralised, searchable catalogue that documents urban datasets regardless of location and availability. At the core of CUDC is the dataset metadata maturity model (DMMM) that provides a framework for representing a dataset’s metadata. A dataset’s catalogue entry contains metadata such as topic, ownership, licensing, and spatial and temporal aspects. In addition, it incorporates information about quality, and a dataset’s adherence to FAIR and indigenous data principles (OCAP). CUDC contains over a thousand catalogued datasets from organisations across Canada, spanning topics such as transportation, housing, art and culture, and homelessness.
We invite you to try out CUDC at: https://data.urbandatacentre.ca/. We also invite you to contribute to the catalogue by creating entries for your datasets, regardless of limitations on availability. CUDC also acts as a repository if you wish to store datasets there. To create a catalogue entry, you will need to register at: https://data.urbandatacentre.ca/user/register. More information about CUDC and DMMM can be found in: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05211
We look forward to your helping us make CUDC a national resource.
Warm regards,
On Behalf of, Dr. Bart Gajderowicz
Executive Director
Urban Data Centre