The Brisbane City Council open data portal was launched in 2015 with the aim of providing an easy way to locate, access, and share the city’s public data assets.
One of the earlier open data portals built by Link Digital, we built it using the powerful open source data management software known as CKAN (the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network). Additional features were implemented using Drupal, a flexible open source content management system that is used to build websites. For a time, Link Digital was also responsible for the ongoing management on the portal on Amazon Web Services.
The Brisbane City Council’s portal adopted a metadata schema shared by the Australian Government’s open data portal, and other state government portals. This enables interoperability with those portals and the Queensland Government Open Data Portal.
The portal holds a wide variety of datasets, including parks and recreation, city planning, the environment, arts and culture, community safety, and public transport (CityCat and ferry services, a listing of CityHopper timetables and ferry terminals references for the Brisbane Ferries Monitoring API). These datasets are available in a wide variety of formats, including CSV, KML, and HTML files.
Read more about the initial work to establish the Council’s open data portal.
