Australian Government Data Initiatives and Policies An interactive mind map to help understand the landscape Please click through to links (with the little arrows) for more information on individual components Please send updates to [email protected]

by Pia Waugh

1. Department of Industry (Industry) - DATA OWNER

2. International and Industry Standards Organisations

2.1. International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

2.2. International Electrontechnical Commission (IEC)

2.3. Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

2.4. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

2.5. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

2.6. Organization for the Advancement of Structural Information Standards (OASIS)

2.7. Object Management Group (OMG)

3. Community Initiatives

3.1. Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) - Legal Records

3.2. Open Australia Foundation - inc. Election Leaflets, OpenAustralia.org, PlanningAlerts, Right To Know

3.3. GovHack

3.4. Sydney City Data Slam

3.5. Random Hacks of Kindness

3.6. GovPond (aggregated Gov data)

3.7. OKFNau - Communities in Australia (inc tech, science, journalism, gov)

4. Government Community & Skills Development

4.1. Centre of Excellence in Data Analytics (ATO)

4.2. APS Policy Visualisation Network

4.3. Australian Government Linked Data Working Group

4.4. Open Data group on GovDex

4.5. Australian Government Statistical Forum (AGSF)

5. Policies & Documentation

5.1. Federal

5.1.1. The Coalition's Plan for the Digital Economy & e-Government (2013)

5.1.2. Productivity Commission 2013 Annual Report - The Value of Adminsitrative Data

5.1.3. Advancing Australia as a Digital Economy: An Update to the National Digital Economy Strategy (Communications) 2013

5.1.4. Australian Public Service ICT Strategy 2012 – 2015 (Finance)

5.1.5. APS Big Data Strategy (Finance) 2013

5.1.6. Open Government Partnership National Action Plan (to be developed) 2013

5.1.7. Gov 2.0 Taskforce Report (Finance) 2009

5.1.8. Declaration of Open Government (Finance) 2010

5.1.9. National Standards Framework (Finance) 2009

5.1.10. Publishing Public Sector Information (Finance) 2011

5.1.11. Accessibility Policy (Finance) 2010

5.1.12. Ahead of the Game: Blueprint for Reform of Australian Government Administration (PM&C) 2010

5.1.13. Open public sector information: from principles to practice (OAIC) 2013

5.1.14. Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government (AGD) 2009 Defines CC-BY as Australian Government default

5.1.15. Other Federal Information, Privacy and Other FoI policies (OAIC)

5.1.16. Digital Transition Policy (NAA) 2012

5.1.17. Investigation into the Spatial Capability of Australia (OSP) 2011

5.1.18. One ANZ Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF) - Project Implementation Plan (Industry) 2012

5.1.19. Open Research Publication Policies (doesn't yet include data)

5.1.19.1. National Health and Medical Research Council open publications policy

5.1.19.2. Australian Research Council open publications policy

5.2. NSW

5.2.1. Open Government

5.2.2. Draft Open Data Policy (2013)

5.2.3. NSW ICT Policy (2012)

5.3. SA

5.3.1. Open Data Declaration (2013)

5.3.2. SA-Connected ICT Position Paper (2013)

5.4. QLD

5.4.1. Departmental Open Data Strategies (2013)

5.4.2. Open Data Strategy (2013)

5.4.3. QLD ICT Strategy (2013)

5.5. Victoria

5.5.1. DataVic Access Policy and the Intellectual Property Policy (2012)

5.5.2. DataVic Access Policy Standards and Guidelines (2013)

5.5.3. Victorian Government ICT Strategy (2013)

5.6. ACT

5.6.1. Open Data Policy (on GitHub)

5.6.2. Open Government in the ACT (2011)

5.6.3. ICT Strategic Plan 2011-2015 [pdf]

5.7. New Zealand

5.7.1. Open data case studies

5.7.2. Government ICT Strategy and Action Plan to 2017

5.7.3. NZGOAL - licensing framework for NZ Government (framework only, no organisation)

5.8. Non-Government Organisations

5.8.1. Australian Government Open Access Licensing Framework (AusGOAL) organisation - framework is adopted by several State Governments

6. Australian Government Data Projects

6.1. Open Data Portals

6.1.1. http://data.gov.au/ (Launched 2009, relaunched on CKAN 2013)

6.1.2. http://data.vic.gov.au/ (Launched 2010, integration of the Spatial DataMart and Data.Vic 2013)

6.1.3. http://data.qld.gov.au/ (Launched on CKAN 2012)

6.1.4. http://data.nsw.gov.au/ (Launched on CKAN 2013)

6.1.5. http://data.sa.gov.au/ (Launched on CKAN 2013)

6.1.6. http://data.act.gov.au/ (Launched on Socrata 2012)

6.2. Spatial Projects

6.2.1. FIND (Spatial Catalogue)

6.2.2. NSW Spatial Data Catalogue

6.2.3. QLD Spatial data

6.2.4. WA SLIP and NewSLIP

6.2.5. Tasmanian Spatial Information Foundations Project

6.2.6. AusGlobe

6.3. Statistical Data

6.3.1. ABS.Stat data service

6.3.2. Other Australian Bureau of Statistics data

6.3.3. National Statistical Service

6.3.4. ABS - Key Economic Indicators

6.3.4.1. National Accounts

6.3.4.2. International Accounts

6.3.4.3. Consumption and Investment

6.3.4.4. Production

6.3.4.5. Prices

6.3.4.6. Labour Fource and Demography

6.3.4.7. Incomes

6.3.4.8. Housing Finance

6.3.5. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

6.3.6. Australian Social Science Data Archive

6.4. Sensor Data

6.4.1. Sense-T (Tasmania)

6.5. Cultural Data

6.5.1. SODA (National Archives of Australia)

6.5.2. Trove (newspapers, books, photos) NLA

6.6. Research/Science Data

6.6.1. Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) - under development

6.6.2. Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN)

6.6.3. Weather and other environmental data services (BoM)

6.6.4. Geoscience WMS data services (Geoscience Australia and State/Territory sources)

6.6.5. Australian Biological Resources Study data sources

6.6.6. Atlas of Living Australia (Biodiversity data)

6.6.7. ACORN-SAT Environmental Linked Data (BoM, NPEII & CSIRO)

6.6.8. Australian Institute of Marine Science data catalogue

6.6.9. Australian Soil Resource Information System

6.6.10. CSIRO data access portal

6.6.11. Spatial Identifier Reference Framework (CSIRO)

6.6.12. Australian National Data Service (ANDS) - indexing service

6.6.13. Environmental Resources Information Network

6.7. Data about Government (parliament, law, spend)

6.7.1. Hansard - Parliamentary Records

6.7.2. AusTender - contract data (note: historical data on http://data.gov.au)

6.7.3. ComLaw - Commonwealth legislation and notices

6.7.4. Radiocommunications data about licences and licencees

6.8. Related Transnational Open Data Projects

6.8.1. International Aid Transparency Initiative

6.8.2. Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative

6.8.3. Open Government Partnership National Action Plans

6.9. Communications and Media Data

6.9.1. National Broadband Network (NBN)

6.9.2. Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO)

6.9.3. Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)

6.9.4. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)

6.9.5. Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF)

7. Organisations

7.1. National and Organisational Standards

7.1.1. Standards Australia

7.1.2. International Hydrographic Organisation

7.1.3. World Meteorological Organisation

7.2. Federal

7.2.1. Department of Communications (Communications) - POLICY

7.2.1.1. Office of Spatial Policy (OSP)

7.2.2. Department of Finance (Finance) - POLICY & IMPLEMENTATION

7.2.3. Prime Minister & Cabinet (PM&C) - POLICY

7.2.4. Attorney-General's Department (AGD)

7.2.4.1. National Archives of Australia (NAA)

7.2.4.2. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)

7.2.4.3. Critical Infrastructure Protection - POLICY & ADMINISTRATION

7.2.4.4. Arts - Cultural Institutions - POLICY & ADMINISTRATION

7.2.5. Department for Industry (Industry)

7.2.6. Public Sector Mapping Agencies (PSMA)

7.2.6.1. Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF)

7.2.7. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) - DATA OWNER

7.2.7.1. AusTrade

7.2.7.2. Tourism Australia

7.2.7.3. AusAid

7.2.8. Department of Health (Health) - DATA OWNER

7.2.9. Department of Human Services (DHS) - DATA OWNER

7.2.10. Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development - DATA OWNER

7.2.11. Department of Immigration and Border Protection - DATA OWNER

7.2.11.1. Customs - POLICY & ADMNINISTRATION

7.2.11.2. Border Control - POLICY & ADMINISTRATION

7.2.11.3. Information Policy - POLICY & ADMINISTRATION

7.2.12. Department of Defence (Defence) DATA OWNER & ADMINISTRATION

7.2.12.1. Australian Signals Directorate - POLICY & ADMINISTRATION

7.2.13. Department of Social Services (DSS) - DATA OWNER

7.2.14. Department of Education (Education) - DATA OWNER

7.2.15. Department of Employment (Employment) - DATA OWNER

7.2.16. Department of the Environment (Environment) - DATA OWNER

7.3. State/Territory Governments

7.4. Local Governments

8. Standards

8.1. Metadata

8.1.1. Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS)

8.1.1.1. Dublin Core

8.1.2. ANZLIC National Address Management Framework

8.1.3. DCat - Data Catalog Vocabulary (W3C)

8.2. Government Definitions

8.2.1. Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT)

8.2.2. Health, Community Services & Housing sectors data dictionary (AIHW)

8.3. Data

8.3.1. National Statistical Standards (NSS)

8.3.2. Data Transfer for Water

8.3.3. Statistical Standards, Classifications and Data Dictionaries (NSS)

8.3.4. ANZLIC spatial metadata standard

8.3.5. National data dictionary for emergency services