Key Figures Tooltip.

• Successfully accessed: website is up and running
• Data updated: data on the website is up to date as of today
• Data not updated: the data is still the same as yesterday
• HTML has changed: there are changes in the html that caused issues with the information retrieval
• Hasn't been resolved: not managed to apply the new changes into our processing and thus the retrieval process has failed
• Retrieval failed: due to certain parameters that are running within the website, the retrieval process has failed

Key Objectives

• To survey the availability of public data on COVID-19 on provincial websites
• To monitor how each province updates its COVID-19 dataset via its website
• To gain an understanding of each province’s toolkit (such as tools and technology) that is utilised to run the website and manage its COVID-19 datasets

Notes

• The URLs identified as the official provincial level COVID-19 websites are based on official government references. PLJ’s team periodically updates its internal list of references based on information from reliable secondary sources.
• “Data accessibility” is operationalised as the availability of data in a format that is easily extractable; data is stored in a database that is publicly accessible; or data is processed using technology that would allow simple extraction and data sharing with other parties.
• Following initial analysis of the provincial websites, three categories were established to cluster the various trends observed. Denoted by colours, these include red (indicating an error or information retrieval failure); blue (indicating there are no updates, but the system continues to function); and orange (indicating there are possibly changes in the website’s structure or technology).
• These three categories are based on several factors, as explained in the tooltips.