Open Data Publishing
Publish municipal datasets as open data — DCAT-CA/CKAN-compatible cataloguing, automated anonymization pipelines, multi-format publishing, and a developer API portal for open government transparency.
Catalog Search
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Concurrent API
DCAT 2.0
Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities
Purpose & Scope
What this module owns
Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.
Owns
7Delegated to
4Source data warehousing & ETL
Inter-system data routing
GIS map rendering
BI dashboard creation from open data
These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.
Core Capabilities
What it does
3 capability groups comprising 7 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.
Register datasets with DCAT 2.0 metadata; topic/theme taxonomy; license assignment; freshness tracking; quality scoring.
DCAT 2.0 Metadata
Full DCAT 2.0 / DCAT-CA metadata compliance; topic/theme taxonomy; license assignment (OGL-Canada, CC-BY-4.0).
Freshness Tracking
Track update frequency (real-time, daily, weekly, monthly, annual) and last-published date; stale dataset alerts.
Quality Scoring
Automated quality score: completeness, timeliness, accuracy, and consistency metrics per dataset.
Bilingual Metadata
Title, description, and keywords in EN/FR for full bilingual catalog compliance.
ETL-lite pipelines: source connection → filter/transform → anonymize → validate → publish; scheduled (cron) or event-driven triggers.
Pipeline Steps
Source connection → filter/transform → anonymize → validate → publish — configurable per dataset.
Scheduled Publishing
Cron-based scheduling for regular dataset updates; event-driven triggers for real-time data publishing.
Validation Rules
Pre-publish validation ensures data quality thresholds are met before public release.
Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.
Krutik Parikh
Creator of Civic
Data Model
Entity Architecture
3 entities with 2 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.
Entities
Select an entity to explore its fields and relationships
API Surface
Integration Endpoints
9 RESTful endpoints across 4 resource groups — plus 4 domain events for async integration.
/api/v1/opendata/datasets
Search/browse dataset catalog
/api/v1/opendata/datasets/{id}
Get dataset metadata (DCAT JSON-LD)
/api/v1/opendata/catalog.jsonld
Full DCAT catalog feed
Ecosystem
Products that depend on this module
6 Civic products consume Open Data Publishing — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.
Analytics & BI
BI dashboards sourced from open data
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GIS
Spatial dataset publishing (GeoJSON, Shapefile)
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Climate & ESG
GHG / climate data public reporting
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Citizen Engagement
Open data portal integration
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Economic Development
Economic datasets for investors
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Transit
GTFS feed publishing
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Technical Specifications
Performance, Compliance & Configuration
Catalog Search
Dataset Download (< 100 MB)
API Query Response
Pipeline Publish Latency
Concurrent API Requests
Uptime
DCAT 2.0 Compliance
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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