Open Data Portal Catalogue

The open data portal catalogue is a downloadable dataset containing some key metadata for the general datasets available on the Government of Canada's Open Data portal.

Resource 1 is generated using the ckanapi tool (external link)

Resources 2 - 8 are generated using the Flatterer (external link) utility.

Description of resources:

1. Dataset is a JSON Lines (external link) file where the metadata of each Dataset/Open Information Record is one line of JSON. The file is compressed with GZip. The file is heavily nested and recommended for users familiar with working with nested JSON.

2. Catalogue is a XLSX workbook where the nested metadata of each Dataset/Open Information Record is flattened into worksheets for each type of metadata.

3. datasets metadata contains metadata at the dataset level. This is also referred to as the package in some CKAN documentation. This is the main table/worksheet in the SQLite database and XLSX output.

4. Resources Metadata contains the metadata for the resources contained within each dataset.

5. resource views metadata contains the metadata for the views applied to each resource, if a resource has a view configured.

6. datastore fields metadata contains the DataStore information for CSV datasets that have been loaded into the DataStore. This information is displayed in the Data Dictionary for DataStore enabled CSVs.

7. Data Package Fields contains a description of the fields available in each of the tables within the Catalogue, as well as the count of the number of records each table contains.

8. data package entity relation diagram Displays the title and format for column, in each table in the Data Package in the form of a ERD Diagram. The Data Package resource offers a text based version.

9. SQLite Database is a .db database, similar in structure to Catalogue. This can be queried with database or analytical software tools for doing analysis.

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada

Last modified: 2026-05-11T15:18:22.671797