DataVic – Victoria’s open data platform DataVic is the place to discover and access Victorian Government open data. DataVic is owned by the State Government of Victoria, and is administered by the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet. The DataVic Access Policy was endorsed by the Victorian Government in August 2012 for implementation throughout the Victorian public service. Through this policy, Victorian government datasets will be: available to the public easy to find easy to use We've had a refresh You may notice things looking a little different around here – a little fresher, a little simpler, and (we think) a little better. We’ve improved our search experience, one that lets you refine your results with clickable filters, so you can zero in on the data you want. We've moved to Single Digital Presence (SDP). SDP is the Victorian Government's new digital platform that make it easier for citizens to find, understand and use Victorian Government information. SDP is an open source, flexible technical solution that government agencies can use to reduce the cost and effort of digital development. We've also made significant upgrades and improvements under the hood.

The Priority Sites Register (PSR) consists of a list of publicly available sites that EPA Victoria has issued a clean-up or pollution abatement notice to for regarding land and/or groundwater that presents an unacceptable risk to human health and/or the environment. The site is then usually subject to management such as clean-up, monitoring and/or institutional controls to reduce this risk..

Data access and currency

No Longer maintained by CeRDI/VVG. Latest data now available via Data VIC

https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/epa-victoria-priority-sites-register-psr-location-polygons

https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/epa-victoria-priority-sites-register-psr-location-points

Raw data supporting the interactive map visualisation of the 2022-23 State budget on the Victorian Government State Budget Website.\r \r Virtual map is located on budget.vic.gov.au.

The ckanext-datavic-stats extension, a fork of CKAN's built-in statistics plugin, provides enhanced statistical analysis capabilities specifically tailored for data portals like data.gov.au. It modifies the core statistics functionality to provide more relevant and accurate insights. The extension focuses on presenting a refined view of data usage and engagement, optimizing the presentation of key metrics for informed decision-making. Key Features: Exclusion of Private Datasets: Removes private datasets from almost all statistical calculations (except for the top users section), ensuring that public statistics accurately reflect openly accessible data. This prevents skewing of results due to internal or non-public data. Summary Page Enhancement: Introduces or enhances a summary stats page, allowing administrators and users to quickly grasp key metrics related to dataset usage and engagement. This includes important data regarding the number of available public datasets. Activity Summary Page: Adds a dedicated activity summary page that aggregates public data activity metrics, providing a consolidated view of user interactions, dataset updates, and other relevant portal events. This enhances transparency and allows for better tracking of data portal usage. Organization-Level Public/Private Dataset Counts: Provides a dedicated page for organizations outlining the count of both public and private datasets they manage. This enhances organizational transparency and allows for easy auditing of data visibility settings. Use Cases: Data Portals: Enhances the statistical reporting capabilities of open data portals by focusing statistics on public datasets, providing portal administrators and users with more actionable insights into the use of openly accessible data and ensuring key statistics reflect the portals publicly available data offerings. Data Governance: Helps organisations monitor and maintain their data portfolios, with clear indicators of how much data is public. Technical Integration: This extension modifies the existing CKAN statistics plugin, seamlessly integrating with CKAN's user interface and backend. It likely overrides or extends the default statistical calculations and templates to implement its specific features without requiring substantial alterations to the core CKAN system. Benefits & Impact: By focusing statistics on public datasets, ckanext-datavic-stats provides portal administrators a clearer picture of which data is used and how. Added summary pages and organization data counts provide better ways for end users to understand their catalog's data, helping increase its value and utility. The exclusion of private datasets makes metrics more relevant for external users interested in open data usage trends and more targeted insights that can inform promotion and improvement strategies.

The ckanext-datavic-odp-theme extension is a custom theme designed specifically for CKAN instances serving Data.vic.gov.au (Public). It primarily aims to provide a unique visual experience and branding tailored to the data portal. The extension allows for customization of the CKAN user interface and potentially impacts user engagement by implementing specific design elements. Key Features: Custom Theming: Offers a tailored visual theme, changing the look and feel of a standard CKAN instance to align with the Data.vic.gov.au branding. CSS Customization: Adds a custom CSS resource through CKAN's fanstatic directory, allowing for style overrides and enhancements. Tracker Integration: Supports integration with various trackers including Google Tag Manager, Hotjar, and Monsido for website analytics and user behavior monitoring. SCSS Compilation: Utilizes a Grunt-based workflow for compiling SCSS files into CSS giving greater control over how the theme looks. Branding: Provides a platform to enhance Data.vic.gov.au's branding. Technical Integration: The extension integrates with CKAN by first activating through the CKAN plugin system using the extension name. This involves adding "datavicodptheme" to the plugins list inside CKAN's .ini configuration files, found at /etc/ckan/default/development.ini and /etc/ckan/default/production.ini. This plugin enables the custom theme, loads the custom CSS resource, and activates any tracker integrations. Additionally, a Grunt-based build process is provided to compile SCSS files into CSS, enabling customization of the theme's styling. Benefits & Impact: By implementing the ckanext-datavic-odp-theme extension, Data.vic.gov.au can ensure a consistent and branded user experience on its CKAN data portal. Tracker integrations provide valuable insights into user behavior empowering Data.vic.gov.au to make data-driven decisions regarding the site design and UX. Although the documentation is brief, it is clear that the extension is designed to provide a bespoke appearance and analytics gathering solution to the standard CKAN framework.

Raw data supporting the interactive map visualisation of the 2023-24 State Budget on the Victorian Government State Budget website.\r \r Virtual map is located at https://www.2023.budget.vic.gov.au/.

Raw data supporting map visualisation of the 2017-18 State budget on the Victorian Government State Budget website.\r Maps are located on www.budget.vic.gov.au.

The EPA audit reports refer to a searchable list of properties under the audit categories 53X Statement and/or Certificate, 53V Audit recommendations/No audit recommendations and EPA Processing (under the Environmental Protection Act 1970) that is maintained by EPA Victoria. The addresses of the properties have been spatially located and appear on the VVG portal as a WMS layer. The query links the location on the map portal to the on-line databasemaintained by the EPA.

Each site links to up to three reports - in Adobe portable document format (*.pdf) - The Audit report (part a) report is the audit report with the key figures, maps and tables and often includes a signed copy of the certificate or statement of environmental audit. The Report appendices (part b) report contains all of the technical information, including groundwater bores, soil bores or pits, monitoring data, remediation plans, etc., and are often quite large files. The Executive summary (part c) contains an executive summary along with the signed copy of the certificate or statement of environmental audit. These are stipilated in the reporting format guidelines.

Data access and currency

No Longer maintained by VVG/CeRDI. Please access using Data VIC links below

https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/epa-victoria-environmental-audit-reports-location-points

https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/epa-victoria-environmental-audit-reports-location-polygons

The data is accessed directly from the EPA Victoria Interaction Portal. The addresses have been matched using the Victorian Mapping and Address Service (VMAS) and checked for accuracy. Nine sites have not been matched due to ambiguous or incomplete addressing. The details of these can be downloaded here. The VVG team checks for new data and uploads it on a weekly basis.

Layer last updated: 06 February 2018

Raw data supporting the following graphs on the Victorian Government Budget Website:\r \r - Government infrastructure investment, investment capacity\r \r The graphs are located on www.budget.vic.gov.au.\r

Shape Index ((arithmetic mean) raster Victoria, AustraliaInput file used to model the species distributions of 40 reptile species in Victoria, Australia.Cell size - 250 x 250Original map of land cover types for Victoria obtained DataVic website. The original layer included 15 land cover classes. These were reclassified into five classes - cropping, grazing pasture, native vegetation, plantation forests and other.FRAGSTATS (v4.2, McGarigal et al 2012) was used to perform moving window analysis on the edited file to calculate Shape Index ((arithmetic mean). Further details of methods used to generate the input files and perform modelling are outlined in the methods section of the publication.Original dataset - Victorian Land Cover Mapping 2016https://metashare.maps.vic.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/45fb10e4-866a-50a2-902d-e4d0728f0caf/formatters/sdm-html?root=html&output=htmlDOI - 10.26279/5b98592d6b27d

Raw data supporting map visualisation of the 2016-17 State budget on the Victorian Government State Budget website.\r Maps are located on www.budget.vic.gov.au.

Raw data supporting the following graphs on the Victorian Government Budget Website:\r - Operating surplus\r - Net debt to Gross State Product (GSP)\r - Government infrastructure investment, investment capacity \r The graphs are located on www.budget.vic.gov.au.

Victoria in Future 2023 data is available in one-page profiles for individual regions providing the highlights of population and household change. \r \r Victoria in Future projections are an estimate of the future size, distribution and composition of the population. The projections give an idea of what is likely to happen if current trends continue. They are developed using mathematical models and expert knowledge, relying on trend analysis and assumptions about future change.\r \r VIF projections are an important guide for planning and building for our future. State and local governments and agencies use the projections to plan for land use and development, infrastructure, services and programs. Developers and businesses use them to analyse potential markets, for example future demands for dwellings, goods and services and labour supply.\r \r Clause 11.02 of the State Planning Policy Framework explicitly requires planning for urban growth to have consideration to Victorian Government population projections.\r \r VIF2023 is not an exact prediction or forecast of the future. Uncertainty about the future increases over longer projection horizons and with smaller disaggregations, geographic or sectoral. Different policy settings and changes in the economy could result in changes to the expected size, distribution and characteristics of the population.

This shapefile dataset contains polygon features for the Melbourne Water region from a merge of four data sources: Vicmap hydro water area (data.vic.gov.au; Anzlic ID: ANZVI0803002491), Vicmap hydro water point (10m buffered point feature) (data.vic.gov.au; Anzlic ID: ANZVI0803002493), Overpass turbo (wetlands http://overpass-turbo.eu/); BirdLife Australia-Melbourne Water priority shared sites.

Geometries were fixed in the merged shapefile and some fields were removed - remainder are listed below. Features classified as "FTYPE_CODE" = 'watercourse_area_river' were removed using the following code 'watercourse_area_river' AND $perimeter > 1000. Manual inspection of remaining named features resulted further deletions.

Every feature with a NAME = xxx was manually checked and assigned a normalised site name with that of overlapping and / or adjacent wetland features. At this step, some unnamed features might be added to the group of features having the same normalised site name (these will have no "NAME" but will have a "norm_sitnm". During this step, some features were deleted e.g. features that had been built over, BLA-MW features that included substantial adjacent areas of parkland or reserve.

Layer was dissolved based on norm_sitnm != UNNAMED

The coordinate reference system is Pseudo Mercator (EPSG:3857)

Date of last edit 9 August 2023

Prepared by Birgita Hansen b.hansen@federation.edu.au

Dataset name: melbourne_wetlands_3857_07082023

Field names:

• PFI = supplied with Vicmap hydro (see relevant metadata)
• UFI = supplied with Vicmap hydro (see relevant metadata)
• FTYPE_CODE = supplied with Vicmap hydro (see relevant metadata)
• NAME = supplied with Vicmap hydro (see relevant metadata)
• WTR_USE_FN = supplied with Vicmap hydro (see relevant metadata)
• WTR_BDY_ST = supplied with Vicmap hydro (see relevant metadata)
• FQID = supplied with Vicmap hydro (see relevant metadata)
• ID = supplied with Vicmap hydro (see relevant metadata)
• SURVEY_SIT = site name; supplied with BLA-MW merged priority sites
• ACCESS_REQ = public access or not; supplied with BLA-MW merged priority sites
• lat_1 = latitude; supplied with BLA-MW merged priority sites
• long = longitude; supplied with BLA-MW merged priority sites
• site_type = site or wetland type e.g. stormwater; supplied with BLA-MW merged priority sites
• natural = feature type, e.g. wetland; supplied with Overpass
• wetland = wetland type, e.g. reedbed; supplied with Overpass
• path = previous shapefile merges
• norm_sitnm = normalised site name
• actionreq = notes on manual editing or future editing actions required

This layer contains a snapshot of flora taxa records from the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas (VBA) (including most threatened taxa). The main attributes in this layer are survey id, survey location, date, time, locational accuracy, taxa recorded, counts, observation type, survey type, collector, and reliability of the record. The VERS_DATE column identifies the currency of the data.

Although this is a point layer, the actual accuracy of the site can range from +/- 1m to +/- 500m.

The FFG field has been updated to reflect the 2021 FFG Act amendments, and the Victorian Advisory List (VICADV) is now obsolete.

This layer excludes restricted taxa records. These records are contained in the related (but restricted) dataset VBA_FLORA_RESTRICTED. Public users wishing to view the general location of these records should refer to the related dataset VBA_RESTRICTED_1M.

Raw data supporting the interactive map visualisation of the 2020-21 State budget on the Victorian Government State Budget Website.\r \r The location coordinates are provided for general illustrative purposes only, and are subject to change and may not represent the final approved location of initiatives.\r \r Virtual map is located on www.2020.budget.vic.gov.au

Native Vegetation Cover raster layer, Victoria, AustraliaInput file used to model the species distributions of 40 reptile species in Victoria, Australia.Cell size - 250 x 250Original map of land cover types for Victoria obtained DataVic website. The original layer included 15 land cover classes. These were reclassified into five classes - cropping, grazing pasture, native vegetation, plantation forests and other. FRAGSTATS (v4.2, McGarigal et al 2012) was used to perform moving window analysis on the edited file to calculate native vegetation cover. Further details of methods used to generate the input files and perform modelling are outlined in the methods section of the publication.Original dataset - Victorian Land Cover Mapping 2016https://metashare.maps.vic.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/45fb10e4-866a-50a2-902d-e4d0728f0caf/formatters/sdm-html?root=html&output=htmlDOI - 10.26279/5b98592d6b27d

Raw data supporting the following graphs on the Victorian Government Budget Website:\r \r - Operating Surplus\r \r - Net Debt to GSP\r \r The graphs are located on www.budget.vic.gov.au.

Recreation sites dataset describes recreation sites (such as picnic and camping sites) within State Forest. This dataset provides valuable information to promote these sites for public use as well as assisting staff in their management of these sites. All recreation sites within State Forest have been captured and recorded with a Trimble Pro XR GPS and are actively promoted to the public and maintained by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.

This spreadsheet contains data items for the local government area (LGA) profiles. Most data items include a rate for each LGA and a ranking of the LGA's score compared with other LGAs. Data is also provided for Department of Health regions and rural and metro Victoria.

Modelling GIS and Planning products produces statistical profiles of geographic areas to facilitate service planning and policy development by enabling access to a broad range of data about each geographic area. The geographic profiles currently available on this website are Local Government Area Profiles 2011.