New South Wales: Open Data Online, the Australian Way

New South Wales has created an online data repository focusing the home of Sydney, and focuses heavily on innovation and visual design.

The website culls data from many different sources, ranging from the usual “archival” suspects like the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the State Records NSW and the National Archives of Australia, in addition to some refreshing collections from the NSW Film and Television Office, the Historic Houses Trust and the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

This means users can do more than searching for images and articles on popular topics related to New South Wales, and also browse artworks, heritage sites, museum artefacts and related information on a map, or explore demographic data and compare different regions to each other.

Information Aesthetics has a great collection of links about the design and construction of the system that make for great reading.

via About New South Wales: Putting Open Data Online, the Australian Way – information aesthetics.

About the Author: Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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