Nova Scotia Government's Open Data Portal

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.

February is African Heritage Month in Nova Scotia and this year’s theme is Seas of Struggle – African Peoples from Shore to Shore. The Open Data Portal has a series of datasets that highlight the long and complex history of people of African descent in Nova Scotia, and speak to their resiliency, strength, and determination.

To help respond to climate risk in Nova Scotia, the Department of Environment and Climate Change has released datasets which include projections to 2095 relating to variables such as temperature, precipitation, and sea level rise across the province.

With transcription help from the public, the Nova Scotia Archives and Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage have released datasets containing civil registrations that provide deeper demographic and genealogical data than previously released. The data will open paths to new areas of interest and research.