Businesses, entrepreneurs, academics, researchers, and the public can leverage publicly available open data released through open data portals to inform their business, create new lines of services, develop products such as mobile applications, find insights, and solve problems.

The Nova Scotia Government, along with many other governments within Canada and around the world, recognizes that the data it collects and manages becomes more valuable it is is "opened" up and made freely available to the public in support of collaboration and innovation. The province fosters innovation by encouraging citizens, academics, entrepreneurs and government employees to find new ways to use open data to solve problems, gain efficiencies, create opportunities, and develop new and innovative products and services.

This dataset is a tabular view of metadata for each asset published on the Open Data Portal by the Open Data Program. Columns include Name, Description, Department, Type, Category, Tags, url, API Endpoint, Last Metadata Updated Date (UTC), and Last Data Updated Date (UTC).

The first Nova Scotia Open Data Contest was held in partnership with the School of Information Management and the Rowe School of Business (Dalhousie Faculty of Management) on March 4-5, 2017.

The second annual Nova Scotia Open Data Contest was March 3-4, 2018 in partnership with the School of Information Management and the Rowe School of Business (Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University).

The fourth annual Nova Scotia Open Data Contest was held March 7-8, 2020 in partnership with the School of Information Management and the Rowe School of Business (Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University).

Fifth Annual Open Data Contest

The Province co-hosts an annual contest encouraging youth, entrepreneurs, and citizens to use data from the Nova Scotia Open Data Portal to create unique products or solutions in just over 24 hours.

Working with data series

Working with Data Series