Nova Scotia Government's Open Data Portal
Making government data easier to access for individuals, businesses, and researchers
Perspectives Stories
The Nova Scotia Open Data Portal has a unique storytelling feature entitled Perspectives. These Stories provide an opportunity to add content such as videos, images, and narrative to provide additional context to the data. Stories are listed as a data type on the portal.
Featured Datasets: Honey Bee Data
The health of the honey bee industry is vital to agriculture in Nova Scotia because honey bees pollinate major industry crops. The Department of Agriculture has made available two honey bee datasets on the portal.
Featured Datasets: Department of Lands and Forestry
Lands and Forestry has broad responsibilities for Nova Scotia's forest, mineral, parks and wildlife resources and the administration of Crown land and have made a variety of datasets available on the portal.
Featured Datasets: Coastal Monitoring Data
The Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (NSDFA) has made available several coastal monitoring datasets that measure the long-term water quality and current speed and direction of Nova Scotia’s coastal waters on the portal