LibGuides: Open Education: Find Open Data

Open data is a valuable resource, providing access to a wealth of information that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. These datasets cover a wide range of topics, from government statistics to scientific research, and are often available through open data hubs that aggregate collections from various sources. By exploring these hubs, you can find data that supports your research, projects, and learning activities.

Wikidata
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.
Harvard Dataverse
The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data.
Abacus Open Data Collection
Includes over 1,000 public-use microdata files (PUMF's) from Statistics Canada, as well as a variety of other open data sets. Statcan files are available under the Statistics Canada Open Licence

Canadian Open Data

Canada Open Government Portal
Information resources and data sets published by Canadian government institutions.
DataBC
The DataBC Catalogue provides easy access to public government data, applications and web services. These datasets are under multiple license types, with thousands of datasets under the BC Open Government License.
Canadian Open Data and Free Geospatial Data Resources
Links to Canadian Open Data (sites that offer data downloads at no cost and without restrictions), free geospatial data, online web mapping applications and other sources of geospatial information (including National, Provincial and Municipal levels).
BCER GIS Open Data Portal
Energy related spatial data

International Open Data

Europa Open Data Portal
1,607,000 datasets from 36 countries
UN Data
United Kingdom Open Data Portal
Brings together data published by UK central government, local authorities and public bodies.
US Government Open Data
The United States Government’s open data site is designed to unleash the power of government open data to inform decisions by the public and policymakers, drive innovation and economic activity, achieve agency missions, and strengthen the foundation of an open and transparent government.
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.

KPU Library

Open Education

Canadian Open Data

International Open Data