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 Dataset: No. 2 Construction Battalion
A nominal roll, commemorating the service and sacrifice of this First World War Canadian battalion, is available on the Open Data Portal. The segregated battalion was the only predominantly Black battalion in Canadian military history. The nominal roll was created to record the origins and next of kin of all who enlisted.
Featured Datasets: Natural Resources and Renewables
The Department of Natural Resources and Renewables has released a broad array of datasets over the years relating to energy, forests, geoscience, mines, minerals, parks and wildlife resources, and Crown lands.
Understanding Open Data: Exploration Canvas
The Exploration Canvas is ready for you to try! The user-friendly interface is available for most datasets and makes it possible to interact with the data on the portal to gain insight, regardless of your technical skill level.