{"id":12279,"date":"2011-11-01T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T13:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=12279"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:42:14","slug":"montreal-moves-on-open-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/11\/01\/montreal-moves-on-open-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal moves on Open Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For just over a year<\/a>, Montr\u00e9al Ouvert has been pressuring the city to provide data to citizens that is readable by a computer program, centralized in a permanent location, and licenced in a way that allows other to use it. They envision that this data can be incorporated into interactive websites, social media, and iPhone applications that will in turn make it more accessible and useful to citizens.<\/p>\n

Last October 27th, the city launched its first platform for open data<\/a>. Montr\u00e9al Ouvert is happy with the announcement and have highlighted the contribution<\/a> of the elected officials and city employees who moved relatively quickly to make data accessible.<\/p>\n

“It has a good licence, though not perfect, and they have released some interesting data sets,” says Jonathan Brun, co-founder of Montr\u00e9al Ouvert, “The real test will be to see if they continue to roll out data sets over the next 6 months, something they have promised to do. ”<\/p>\n

At its launch, the site includes the following data sets:<\/p>\n