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Linking legislative openness to open data in Canada
Author(s) -
Marczak Paulina,
Sieber Renée
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/cag.12408
Subject(s) - legislature , openness to experience , repurposing , political science , key (lock) , open data , resource (disambiguation) , public relations , business , computer science , law , engineering , computer security , psychology , social psychology , waste management , computer network
Key Messages Legislative information is becoming an increasingly popular resource within legislative discourse and among open data advocates. In Canada, provincial and territorial legislatures achieve minimal standards of openness via online repositories. Despite momentum for openness, Canadian legislatures have yet to achieve openness suitable for legal repurposing of legislative information.