{
  "slug": "donnees-quebec",
  "name": "Données Québec",
  "aliases": [
    "donneesquebec.ca",
    "Portail de données ouvertes du Québec"
  ],
  "vendor": {
    "name": "Gouvernement du Québec and partner municipalities",
    "slug": "gouvernement-du-quebec",
    "website": "https://www.quebec.ca"
  },
  "homepage_url": "https://www.donneesquebec.ca/",
  "docs_url": "https://www.donneesquebec.ca/a-propos/",
  "license_url": "https://www.donneesquebec.ca/licence/",
  "product_type": "data-service",
  "product_status": "active",
  "summary": "Québec's shared open-data portal where provincial ministries and municipalities publish datasets under a Creative Commons Attribution licence",
  "description": "Données Québec is the collaborative open-data portal of the Gouvernement du Québec and participating municipalities, including Québec City, Montréal, Gatineau, Laval and Sherbrooke. Built on CKAN, it catalogues datasets from ministries and cities on topics such as territory and cadastre, property assessment rolls, transport, environment, health, education and public finance, each with resources in CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, Shapefile, XML or API form and a machine-readable catalogue API. Datasets are released under the portal's Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence unless a publisher states otherwise. It is the first place to look for provincial geodata, municipal datasets and the MAMH assessment-roll extracts. The portal is a catalogue, so update frequency, documentation quality and file structure vary by publisher, and many datasets are available in French only.",
  "capabilities": [
    "Searchable catalogue of provincial and municipal datasets",
    "CKAN API for programmatic catalogue and resource access",
    "Downloads in CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, Shapefile, XML and more",
    "Organisation pages per ministry or municipality",
    "Creative Commons Attribution licensing",
    "Dataset update notifications"
  ],
  "workflows": [
    "Locate and download the provincial assessment-roll extracts",
    "Script periodic retrieval of a municipal dataset through the CKAN API"
  ],
  "advantages": [
    "Single entry point for Québec public data",
    "Clear open licence",
    "Standard CKAN API"
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Quality and freshness vary by publisher",
    "Mostly French-language metadata",
    "Some large datasets are split across many files"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
    "Web browser or HTTP client for the CKAN API"
  ],
  "audiences": [
    "Researchers and analysts working on Québec",
    "Civic developers",
    "Municipal staff"
  ],
  "alternatives": [
    "statistics-canada",
    "role-evaluation-fonciere-quebec",
    "openstreetmap"
  ],
  "comparison_notes": "Statistics Canada produces national statistics with its own API, whereas Données Québec aggregates datasets produced by Québec public bodies. The assessment rolls are one dataset family hosted on the portal; OpenStreetMap is a community geodata source that complements official layers.",
  "categories": [
    {
      "slug": "open-public-data",
      "primary": true
    },
    {
      "slug": "gis-mapping"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "open-data",
    "quebec",
    "ckan",
    "gis",
    "api"
  ],
  "use_cases": [
    "access-public-statistics",
    "map-geodata",
    "value-real-estate"
  ],
  "operating_systems": [
    "web"
  ],
  "execution_modes": [
    "cloud"
  ],
  "interfaces": [
    "web",
    "api"
  ],
  "deployment_models": [
    "saas"
  ],
  "integrations": [
    "CKAN API",
    "QGIS",
    "Python/R clients"
  ],
  "data_formats": [
    "CSV",
    "JSON",
    "GeoJSON",
    "Shapefile",
    "XML",
    "GeoPackage"
  ],
  "languages": [],
  "source_model": "open-source",
  "license_spdx": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "pricing_model": [
    "free"
  ],
  "self_hostable": false,
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.donneesquebec.ca/",
      "type": "official_site",
      "supports": [
        "name",
        "summary",
        "capabilities"
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",
      "title": "Données Québec"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.donneesquebec.ca/a-propos/",
      "type": "official_docs",
      "supports": [
        "vendor",
        "summary"
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",
      "title": "À propos — Données Québec"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.donneesquebec.ca/licence/",
      "type": "license_page",
      "supports": [
        "license_spdx",
        "pricing_model"
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",
      "title": "Licence Données Québec (CC BY 4.0)"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "depth": "standard",
  "featured": false,
  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",
  "editorial_status": "reviewed",
  "visibility": "public",
  "author": "batch-F"
}