Global Open Data Index: Survey
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Data about the daily mean concentration of air pollutants, especially those potentially harmful to human health. Data should be available for all air monitoring stations or air monitoring zones in a country. The Index focusses on key pollutants as defined by the World Health Organisation. See our methodology section for more information.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | Attribution similar to CC-BY but not standardised license. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV, TSV | |
| Downloadable at once | No | Exportable after search. Reviewer: No direct bulk option was found at source. Proposing correction. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | High resolution on historical data. Unsure about near realtime. |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 2 | |
| findable_steps | Tried to locate it on the english version of the Swedish EPA website first but failed. Swedish version pointed to IVL. | |
| licence_url | http://www3.ivl.se/db/plsql/dvst_bensen_st$.startup | See license text at top of page. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | Need to drill down search before being able to export the data. |
| collector_name | Naturvårdsverket (IVL) | Data hosting by a separate entity: IVL |
| characteristics | Particulate matter (PM), Sulphur oxides (SOx), Nitrogen oxides (NOx), Carbon monoxide (CO), Ozone, Available per air monitoring station/zone | Based on list at http://www.ivl.se/sidor/omraden/miljodata/luftkvalitet.html |
| location | http://www.ivl.se/sidor/omraden/miljodata/luftkvalitet. - Website of IVL - data host, - |
Accepted with slight correction on bulk data download: As no bulk data download is easily available(multiple selections and interactions needed).