Melbourne Open Data Portal
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226 of the portal's 239 datasets carry a clean CC BY 4.0 licence. The pedestrian counting feed that peer-reviewed papers keep building on is one of the 13 that carry none.
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The strongest source is an independent non-academic evaluation: an audit office, a government or EU review, or an NGO. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 9 more in Melbourne · 📊 Open data guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
City of Melbourne's open data portal has run since 2014, now hosting 239 datasets — pedestrian sensor counts (since 2009), on-street parking sensors, the tree canopy, and development activity monitoring. 226 of 239 datasets carry CC BY 4.0; 13, including the flagship pedestrian dataset, list no licence. Peer-reviewed papers use its pedestrian data for traffic-flow research.
📊 Impact
226 of 239 datasets (94.6%) carry a CC BY 4.0 licence; 13 datasets, including the pedestrian counting feed, have no licence recorded. Pedestrian sensor data has been used in at least three peer-reviewed studies since 2017.
🎓 Lesson
A city's most heavily reused dataset can be its least legally clear one — the pedestrian counting feed that multiple academic papers build on carries no licence at all, while less-used datasets are properly CC BY.
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226 of 239 datasets (94.6%) carry a CC BY 4.0 licence; 13 datasets, including the pedestrian counting feed, have no licence recorded
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- City of Melbourne (local government)
- Actor types
- city-government
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- public
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7 source dossiers
CoM Open Data Portal — homepage
- Stable source ID
src-f7e98fda042dc140- Publisher
- Name not classified · data.melbourne.vic.gov.au
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
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- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-01
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-20
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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operator, portal branding
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- Background source; no baseline claim points here
CoM Open Data Portal — dataset catalog
- Stable source ID
src-20f02244ac22146a- Publisher
- Name not classified · data.melbourne.vic.gov.au
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-01
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- 2026-08-20
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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239 datasets total
- Claims linked
- Background source; no baseline claim points here
Catalog API — license facet
- Stable source ID
src-0f9b2cc892c666fe- Publisher
- Name not classified · data.melbourne.vic.gov.au
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-01
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- 2026-08-20
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
self-counted license breakdown: 226 CC BY 4.0 of 239
- Claims linked
Pedestrian Counting System dataset
- Stable source ID
src-27b0c9b13c5cd3cb- Publisher
- Name not classified · data.melbourne.vic.gov.au
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-01
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- 2026-08-20
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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flagship dataset, license field null, data since 2009
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- Background source; no baseline claim points here
Development Activity Monitor dataset
- Stable source ID
src-df807d1e45fe30ea- Publisher
- Name not classified · data.melbourne.vic.gov.au
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-01
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- 2026-08-20
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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planning/development category, last modified July 2026
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- Background source; no baseline claim points here
The Mandarin — "Open data helps Melbourne keep cool, leading global moves"
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src-2be7ba4c5c41a178- Publisher
- Name not classified · themandarin.com.au
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2015-01-28
- Updated
- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-01
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-20
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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trade press, states portal launched May 2014 ("May last year", article dated Jan 2015)
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- Background source; no baseline claim points here
IEEE — "Visualising Melbourne pedestrian count"
- Stable source ID
src-eca8c5dfb68e9847- Publisher
- Name not classified · ieeexplore.ieee.org
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- Not recorded
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-01
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-20
- Retrieved copy
- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
independent peer-reviewed research using the portal's pedestrian dataset
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- Background source; no baseline claim points here
Known limits of this passport
- Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
- Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
- A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
- The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Melbourne Open Data Portal” — Melbourne, Australia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/melbourne-open-data-portal/ (last verified 2026-08-01). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.