About the Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal (MBCDP)
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Why Did We Build the Portal?
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Who are We?
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Our Approach
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Terms of Use
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Why Did We Build the Portal?
The Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal (MBCDP) aspires to be a single place for Manitobans to find the data they need to support their work in communities. On the MBCDP, community and government organizations and agencies can easily find a wide range of neighborhood and local-level information. The information can be used to support programs and policies, engage the public, conduct further analyses, and better understand our province and the people in it.
Who Are WE?
Initiating partners of the Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal are the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, the Manitoba Center for Health Policy (University of Manitoba), the Institute of Urban Studies (University of Winnipeg), PEG Winnipeg (United Way Winnipeg, International Institute of Sustainable Development), and Population and Public Health Surveillance, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
The MBCDP is organized as a Collective Impact project, with the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg acting as the backbone organization. Collaborating partners provide in-kind resources to the project and technical support and expertise.
The MBCDP is also supported through a Community Practice group with representation from a wide variety of stake-holder groups including the City of Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba. The Community of Practice collectively acquires, produces, and disseminates the information the MBCDP.
The MBCDP is organized as a Collective Impact project, with the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg acting as the backbone organization. Collaborating partners provide in-kind resources to the project and technical support and expertise.
The MBCDP is also supported through a Community Practice group with representation from a wide variety of stake-holder groups including the City of Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba. The Community of Practice collectively acquires, produces, and disseminates the information the MBCDP.
Collaborative Knowledge Development
The Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal is built upon the premise that a knowledge base that is collaboratively assembled by content experts, community stakeholders and end-users of the data working together will have greater impact and utility than a knowledge base produced in silos. To this end, a cornerstone of the MBCDP are Knowledge Portals, which bring together in one place extensive information about a particular topic of interest that has been curated by a knowledgeable group of content experts, community stake-holders, and end-users. Knowledge Portals include relevant background information on a topic, exploratory data tools such as interactive maps and dashboards, and links to relevant on-line resources
Open Data
The Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal embraces the principle of Open Data. Open Data is the idea that data should be made as freely available to everyone as possible to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. In this way, data becomes a public good that can be used to engage the public, plan our programs, advocate for societal changes that maximize health and well-being, and ensure public accountability.
Low Cost and Flexible Cloud-based Web Services
We have built out the Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal using low-cost and flexible cloud based web services. Our annualized costs for these services is approximately $1500 per year.
Web-site: The web-site was built using the on-line Weebly web-site development platform. Weebly allows the rapid development of a web-site at low cost and does not require significant expertise in web-site development. It facilitates a collaborative approach by allowing the granting of selected page editing permissions to multiple authors so that sections of the portal can be maintained independently by project leads.
Interactive Web Maps: The interactive maps implemented in the Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal were developed using Mango Maps, a very robust and low-cost online mapping service. Advanced license levels of Mango Maps facilitate collaborative map development through the granting of role-based map editing permissions. Mango Maps was chosen for this project because of its low annual costs, its deployment simplicity, its user-friendly user-interface, its potential for collaborative authoring of map products, and its geoprocessing capacity which allows end-users to go beyond simple map visualization and to interact flexibly with the map data to create custom reports and outputs.
Interactive Dashboards: The interactive dashboards implemented in the Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal were developed using Tableau and published via Tableau Public Tableau allows us to take a static excel spreadsheet of data and turn it into an interactive tool that end-users can use dynamically to ask "what if" questions in order to gain new insights and ideas.
Web-site: The web-site was built using the on-line Weebly web-site development platform. Weebly allows the rapid development of a web-site at low cost and does not require significant expertise in web-site development. It facilitates a collaborative approach by allowing the granting of selected page editing permissions to multiple authors so that sections of the portal can be maintained independently by project leads.
Interactive Web Maps: The interactive maps implemented in the Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal were developed using Mango Maps, a very robust and low-cost online mapping service. Advanced license levels of Mango Maps facilitate collaborative map development through the granting of role-based map editing permissions. Mango Maps was chosen for this project because of its low annual costs, its deployment simplicity, its user-friendly user-interface, its potential for collaborative authoring of map products, and its geoprocessing capacity which allows end-users to go beyond simple map visualization and to interact flexibly with the map data to create custom reports and outputs.
Interactive Dashboards: The interactive dashboards implemented in the Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal were developed using Tableau and published via Tableau Public Tableau allows us to take a static excel spreadsheet of data and turn it into an interactive tool that end-users can use dynamically to ask "what if" questions in order to gain new insights and ideas.
Terms of Use
The Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal (MBCDP) provides access to a wide variety of community data through maps, data tools and web-links. These data can be used to support programs and policies, engage the public, conduct further analyses, and to better understand the social, demographic and health characteristics of Manitobans.
Disclaimer:
Access to, and use of, the MBCDP website constitutes acceptance of the following general terms and conditions.
This website is intended for information purpose only. While we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct and up to date, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.
Neither the MBCDP nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the website shall be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of Users' access to, or use of, the website. The Web Portal does not guarantee the accuracy of information provided by external sources and accepts no responsibility or liability for any consequences arising from the use of such data.
Though the MBCDP uses the best technical standards to control its site, material on this website may inadvertently include technical inaccuracies or other errors. We should be grateful if users would notify us of any errors or inaccuracies they may find through the Contact Page . Please note that users browse and use the website at their own risk. The MBCDP does not warrant that the functional aspects of the website will be uninterrupted or error free or that this website, or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or other harmful components. The MBCDP may change material on the site without prior notice.
Access and availability of service and links
The MBCDP site may contains many links and references to third-party websites. These are provided for the convenience and interest of users and on the part of the MBCDP this implies neither responsibility for, nor approval of, information contained in these websites. The MBCDP makes no warranty, either express or implied, as to the accuracy, availability or content of information, text, graphics which are not under the 'mbcd.ca' domain. The MBCDP has not tested any software applications located on other sites and does not make any representation as to the quality, safety, reliability or suitability of such software.
Personal data privacy
By accessing the MBCDP website, certain information about users, such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, navigation through the site, software used and time spent, as well as other similar information, will be tracked using Google Analytics. These will not specifically identify users and the information will be used internally for website traffic analysis only. If users provide unique identifying information, such as name, address and other information on forms stored on this site, this information will be used for communication purposes only and will not be published or made available for general access.
The MBCDP does not sell or rent its website users' names, addresses, email addresses or other personal information. If you are registered on the MBCDP database and would like your name to be removed, please click on the unsubscribe link in your most recent newsletter update and this will enable you to remove your details from MBCDP’s database.
Copyrights
The contents of the MBCDP Web Portal are intended for the personal and non-commercial use of its users. The MBCDP grants permission to users to visit the site, and to download and copy information, images, documents and materials from the website for users' personal or non-commercial use.
Disclaimer:
Access to, and use of, the MBCDP website constitutes acceptance of the following general terms and conditions.
This website is intended for information purpose only. While we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct and up to date, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.
Neither the MBCDP nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the website shall be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of Users' access to, or use of, the website. The Web Portal does not guarantee the accuracy of information provided by external sources and accepts no responsibility or liability for any consequences arising from the use of such data.
Though the MBCDP uses the best technical standards to control its site, material on this website may inadvertently include technical inaccuracies or other errors. We should be grateful if users would notify us of any errors or inaccuracies they may find through the Contact Page . Please note that users browse and use the website at their own risk. The MBCDP does not warrant that the functional aspects of the website will be uninterrupted or error free or that this website, or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or other harmful components. The MBCDP may change material on the site without prior notice.
Access and availability of service and links
The MBCDP site may contains many links and references to third-party websites. These are provided for the convenience and interest of users and on the part of the MBCDP this implies neither responsibility for, nor approval of, information contained in these websites. The MBCDP makes no warranty, either express or implied, as to the accuracy, availability or content of information, text, graphics which are not under the 'mbcd.ca' domain. The MBCDP has not tested any software applications located on other sites and does not make any representation as to the quality, safety, reliability or suitability of such software.
Personal data privacy
By accessing the MBCDP website, certain information about users, such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, navigation through the site, software used and time spent, as well as other similar information, will be tracked using Google Analytics. These will not specifically identify users and the information will be used internally for website traffic analysis only. If users provide unique identifying information, such as name, address and other information on forms stored on this site, this information will be used for communication purposes only and will not be published or made available for general access.
The MBCDP does not sell or rent its website users' names, addresses, email addresses or other personal information. If you are registered on the MBCDP database and would like your name to be removed, please click on the unsubscribe link in your most recent newsletter update and this will enable you to remove your details from MBCDP’s database.
Copyrights
The contents of the MBCDP Web Portal are intended for the personal and non-commercial use of its users. The MBCDP grants permission to users to visit the site, and to download and copy information, images, documents and materials from the website for users' personal or non-commercial use.
