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CA State Geoportal

The California State Geoportal is a centralized geographic open data portal, which includes authoritative data and applications from a multitude of California state entities. The portal...

Portal Metrics

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Privacy Policy

Data.ca.gov Privacy Policy Effective 5/31/17 The California Department of Technology (CDT), which runs the Data.ca.gov web site, protects the privacy rights of individuals. CDT follows...

The California Open Data Publishing Handbook

The California Open Data Publishing Handbook provides guidelines to identify, review, prioritize and prepare publishable data for access by the public and government entities via the...

California Open Data Policy

California Department of Technology - Technology Letter The California Department of Technology (CDT) released Technology Letter (TL) 19-01 announcing the Open Data Policy....

Public Open Data User Training Videos

This series of training videos will teach Public Open Data Users how to navigate open data, use datasets, use API keys and manage their profile. This video course should take you less...

Open Data Administrator Training Videos

This series of training videos will teach Open Data Administrators how to add and edit datasets, create and edit metadata, add and edit resources and manage the organization. This video...

Creating Metadata and a Data Dictionary

What is Metadata and why is it useful and needed? Metadata is information that you provide to describe...

Preparing Data for Publication in the Datastore

In order to publish your dataset so the public is able to preview and utilize the data in...

Data Prioritization

With limited time and resources, prioritizing what data to publish is critically important and the first task in making data publicly available. Prioritizing what data to publish requires...

Developer Tools

Data Cleansing OpenRefine CHHS De-Identification Guidelines (PDF) Data Extraction import.io Data Languages Python The R Project for Statistical Computing RegExr Data Maps ArcGIS...

Open Data Platform Account Hierarchy

Organization An Organization is the representation of a state entity on data.ca.gov. Each Organization has a minimum of one Data Coordinator, who authorizes publishing of the data with...

Open Data Glossary

This glossary covers general definitions in the data and civic technology sector along with how they can be applied within the data.ca.gov program and the California Open Data Community....

FAQs

This simple FAQ attempts to answer basic questions we think you may have. If you don't find what you are looking for here or throughout the portal, please let us know so that we can...

Open Data Publisher Guide Contents

California’s Open Data Portal is a freely available resource for state departments, agencies, boards, and commissions. The Open Data portal is an easy way to publish data for...

Documentation

California Open Data Policy Open Data policy references California Open Data Publishing Handbook Open Data guidelines Public Open Data User Training Videos Video tutorials for Public...

State Portals

Additional open data portals maintained by the State of California                        

Training

OpenGov Open Data Admin Training: By the end of this training course, OpenGov Open Data administrators will be able to add and edit datasets, create and edit metadata, add and edit...