Open Data Portal Catalogue

Open Data Portal Catalogue is an open dataset from Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat with 10 files (CSV, JSON, JSONL, PNG, SQLITE); catalogue record updated 2026-10-29. On CanQuery you can preview 3 live tables, open 2 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

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: 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. Catalogue is a XLSX workbook where the nested metadata of each Dataset/Open Information Record is flattened into worksheets for each type of metadata. 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. Resources Metadata contains the metadata for the resources contained within each dataset. resource views metadata contains the metadata for the views applied to each resource, if a resource has a view configured. datastore fields metadata contains the…

Publisher

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Resources

10

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-10-29