Dealing with portals that support multiple jurisdictions

[Stephen]

In Australia, data.gov.au publishes federal data. It also publishes data for some states, some local governments and some other quasi-government organisations. In fact 173 organisations have data in the portal.

In DataPortals.org, do one want one entry for the portal or an entry for each publishing organisation?

[mattfullerton]

Well. I would suggest one entry for the portal and one entry for each of the publishers if they also have their own portals (if you have time).

If its possible to extract enough info about the publishers from the main portal, perhaps this could be automated.

[Stephen]

Just to make sure I understand…

• one entry for data.gov.au
• a separate entry for each jurisdiction that has their own portal (e.g. data.brisbane.qld.gov.au) and has their metadata harvested to data.gov.au
• no entry for Tasmania who publish directly to data.gov.au and do not have their own portal

Correct?

[rufuspollock]

My 2c:

• Get an entry: Where there is an independent portal - i.e. with a url of its own
• Will not get an entry: Where there is a local jurisdication who maintain their data in the central portal but have no separate site of their own

[mattfullerton]

I think you’re both saying the same thing and I agree with you both.