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(French) Il s'agit des données sur les projets ou propositions de lois discutés au parlement ainsi le vote desdits projets ou propositions (ne pas confondre avec les lois déjà adoptées). Les données concernant ces projets et propositions de lois doivent être disponibles lors de toute la durée de la session parlementaire.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | No | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | HTML | Data is not downloadable |
| Downloadable at once | No | Data is not downloadable, the site loads the current day and next day information. The 3 day forecast is a brief text |
| Up-to-date | Yes | The data is up to date however there i no representation for pass weather information which would allow the review and tracking of trends |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 3 | |
| findable_steps | Upon entering the keywords "weather forecast Jamaica" on Google the The Meteorological Service of Jamaica website was quickly found on the first page. Upon visiting the site data was frequently updated data was available | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | |
| collector_name | The Meteorological Service of Jamaica | In Jamaica, the Meteorological Service of Jamaica, which is a scientific division of the Ministry of Land and Environment, handles the business of meteorology. |
| characteristics | Temperature average, Wind speed, Wind direction, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Probability, Forecast for current day and four following days | Data is published but not in the requisite format. The interface is old-fashioned and lead to broken links. The graph for temperature and precipitation was obscure or probably broken |
| location | metservice.gov.jm - The Meteorological Service of Jamaica, https://www.metservice.gov.jm/forecast.asp - The Meteorological Service of Jamaica, precipitation forecast, https://www.metservice.gov.jm/forecast_towns2.asp - The Meteorological Service of Jamaica, iconic representation of weather forecasts |
The submission is correct. One addition: the data is not openly licensed. There is a copyright note at the footer of the page, but no other statement of public domain status.