What data is expected?
Aggregate data about the emission of air pollutants especially those potentially harmful to human health (although it is not a requirement to include information on green house gas emissions). Aggregate means national-level or more detailed and on an annual basis or better. Standard examples of relevant pollutants would be: carbon monoxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter etc.
What data is available
- Does the data exist? Yes
- Is data in digital form? Yes
- Publicly available? Yes published by Department of the Environment)
- Is the data available for free? Yes
- Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
- Is the data machine readable? Yes (XML, CSV)
- Available in bulk? No
- Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
Details
You can download the results of searches as XML (and also in some cases as CSV) - see e.g. http://www.npi.gov.au/npidata/action/load/download-result. As such we are marking machine-readable as yes. However bulk is marked "no" as there is no simple way to get the entire database easily. Data is not openly licensed as copyright notice at http://www.npi.gov.au/%C2%A9-commonwealth-australia states: "You may download, store in cache, display, print and reproduce the material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice, or links to it where they appear) for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation." (Note also that the copyright link on many data pages is to http://www.npi.gov.au/about/copyright.html which 404s!).
Contributors
Reviewers
- Laura James
- Alex Sadleir
- Rufus Pollock
Submitters
- Rufus Pollock
- Alex Sadleir
- Alexander Sadleir