AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Commercial Groundfish Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial groundfish fisheries in British Columbia. 

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data. 

Tags: CRIMS, commercial, fisheries, groundfish
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Commercial Seacucumber Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial seacucumber fisheries in British Columbia.

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data.

Tags: commercial, fisheries, seacucumber
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Commercial Salmon Trawl Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial salmon trawl fisheries in British Columbia. 

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data.

Tags: CRIMS, commercial, fisheries, salmon
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Commercial Shrimp Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial shrimp fisheries in British Columbia.

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data. 

Tags: CRIMS, commercial, fisheries, shrimp
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Commercial Anchovy Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial anchovy fisheries in British Columbia.

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data. 

Tags: CRIMS, anchovy, commercial, fisheries
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Commercial Crab Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial crab fisheries in British Columbia. 

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data. 

Tags: CRIMS, commercial, crab, fisheries
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Commercial Herring Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial herring fisheries in British Columbia. 

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data. 

Tags: CRIMS, commercial, fisheries, herring
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Commercial Geoduck Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial geoduck fisheries in British Columbia.

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data. 

Tags: CRIMS, commercial, fisheries, geoduck
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Commercial Prawn Fishery - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Areas of marine commercial prawn fisheries in British Columbia. 

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data.

Tags: CRIMS, commercial, fisheries, prawn
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) - Priority Deferral Areas

Note that for the current view of the TAP Priority Deferral Areas please go to [TAP Priority Deferral Areas - Current View](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/f257ca4a-0c33-4eb2-9da8-21dff4482f58).

The "Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) - Priority Deferral Areas" dataset described here reflects the Priority Deferral Areas defined and published by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) on November 2, 2021.  It gives an overall picture of the Technical Advisory Panel’s priority recommendations for harvest deferrals and is a combination of:
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/a7384d1a-a0e8-4c97-ab15-6b2c6ea88911">Prioritized Big-treed Old Growth</a>; </li>
  <li><a href="https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/b43bc442-8a0f-42f2-b085-04f4771b2f28">Ancient Forest</a>; and</li>
  <li><a href="https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/561edb4f-8abc-4583-94ff-d16b4336478e">Remnant Old Ecosystems</a>.</li>
</ul>
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The above three forest types which comprise the Priority Deferral Areas can spatially overlap.  For example, a forested type can meet the criteria for both Ancient Forest and Prioritized Large-treed Old Growth.  The individual spatial layers for <a href="https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/a7384d1a-a0e8-4c97-ab15-6b2c6ea88911">Prioritized Big-treed Old Growth</a>, <a href="https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/b43bc442-8a0f-42f2-b085-04f4771b2f28">Ancient Forest</a>, and <a href="https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/561edb4f-8abc-4583-94ff-d16b4336478e">Remnant Old Ecosystems</a> must each be consulted separately to understand where each occurs.

For more information please consult the [Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel Report](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/stewardship/old-growth-forests/summary_for_g2g_package.pdf).


Tags: Designated Areas, OG, Old Growth, Old Growth Management Area, Old Growth Strategic Review, TAP, Technical Advisory Panel
Organization: Provincial Stewardship Strategies and Planning
BC Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) Sites

The Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) program is used to assess the ecological health of wadeable streams by using data from a wide range of sites that are minimally impacted by humans to establish the natural variability of healthy benthic invertebrate communities within a large watershed. The data collected at these sites (known as “potential reference”) are used to build CABIN models, which can be used to evaluate the aquatic health at sites where there are concerns with the aquatic ecosystem (known as “test sites”). The differences between the benthic macroinvertebrates at the test site compared with the range of conditions found at similar reference sites provides information about the level of impacts within a watershed. Once the sites have been incorporated into a CABIN model, and the model has been approved by ECCC, the site designation is changed from “potential reference” to “reference”.

This dataset is comprised of all CABIN sites in BC sampled by the BC Ministry of Environment and Parks and Environment and Climate Change Canada. The data has been clipped to only include BC and formatted for use with the BC government applications. More information and source data is available here: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/13564ca4-e330-40a5-9521-bfb1be767147 


Tags: Bioassessment, Biomonitoring, CABIN, benthic invertebrate, benthic macroinvertebrate
Organization: Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch
BC Controlled Recreation Areas

The boundaries identified in this layer represent the outermost operating boundary for existing ski areas, as well as proposed boundaries for new and expanded ski resort development on Crown Land. These areas are authorized on behalf of Provincial Government by the Minister responsible for the Land Act and the Lands Parks and Housing Act in the form of a Crown Land Tenure.  The tenures and the spatial data for the tenures are managed by the Mountain Resorts Branch of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. The types of Crown Land Tenures that are represented in this layer and identify the outermost operating boundary for existing ski areas, (as well as proposed boundaries for new and expanded ski resort development) include:  Licences of Occupation, Operating Agreements, Master Development Agreements, Interim Agreements and Notations of Interest.

Tags: BC, British columbia ski, CRA, Controlled, Controlled Recreation Area, Ski, alpine ski, resort development, ski hill, ski resort
Organization: Mountain Resorts Branch
Metadata for Homelessness Cohort

Jan 2019 to Dec 2022 - metadata for Homelessness Cohort includes de-identified row-level data of individuals who experienced homelessness in B.C., determined using administrative service use data available through the Data Innovation Program.  Three administrative service use datasets are used to generate the annual homelessness cohorts, including shelter use (BC Housing), social assistance payments (SDPR), and the Health MSP central demographics file (MoH). The cohort dataset consists of two CSV files: one containing unique studyids by month of those estimated to have experienced homelessness including some demographic attributes, the second CSV contains Census Division locations where individuals experienced homelessness each month (defined by location of service use).

If you are a researcher and want to work with us to help make BC programs and services better, apply to use this dataset and don't hesitate to ask questions here: https://dpdd.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2


Tags: NFA, homeless cohort, homelessness, shelter
Organization: Data Innovation Program (DIP)
BC Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) Model Polygons

The Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) program is used to assess the ecological health of wadeable streams by using data from a wide range of sites that are minimally impacted by humans to establish the natural variability of healthy benthic invertebrate communities within a large watershed. The data collected at these sites (known as “potential reference”) are used to build CABIN models, which can be used to evaluate the aquatic health at sites where there are concerns with the aquatic ecosystem (known as “test sites”). The differences between the benthic macroinvertebrates at the test site compared with the range of conditions found at similar reference sites provides information about the level of impacts within a watershed. CABIN models are used by government, Indigenous groups, industry, community groups, and others to assess aquatic ecosystems across the province.  

CABIN models in BC are developed by the BC Ministry of Environment and Parks and Environment and Climate Change Canada and are available for data analysis on the CABIN website.  Model documentation can be found here: https://gov.bc.ca/biomonitoring. However, note that  online training and certification must be completed to access the CABIN database and to use the models (https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/canadian-aquatic-biomonitoring-network.html).


Tags: Bioassessment, Biomonitoring, CABIN, benthic invertebrate, benthic macroinvertebrate
Organization: Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch
Invasive Species Observations

Polygon geometry for an invasive species observation. The polygon represents the area of the observation. An observation of an invasive species can be either positive or negative. Positive indicates the species was present at the time of the observation. Negative indicates the species was not present at the time of the observation. Dataset currently only includes plant species.

Tags: BC, Weeds, forestry, invasive alien plants, invasive plants, invasive species, inventory, noxious weeds, observations, survey
Organization: Range Branch
Historical Open Range - 1963-1994

Historical Open Range - 1963-1994 is a polygon layer that depicts grasslands and shrublands (originally designated as 'on land deemed with no potential for growing trees'). Data were derived from a (retired) Provincial Forest Cover Polygon dataset which was interpreted from air photos. Photograph and interpretation dates range from 1963 to 1994. This dataset has value as temporal snapshots of ecosystems under siege from human and natural processes. Data is useful for identification and analysis of forest ingrowth into grasslands from fire suppression. Encroachment can shift over time, for example from changing climate and disturbance events, and this data provides one measure of that shift.  Data may also inform location of wildfire safety buffers around communities.

Tags: Forest Cover, Grasslands, Rangelands
Organization: Range Branch
Graduation Assessments

This extract contains information on the results of the Graduation Assessment (Numeracy 10 and Literacy 10/12) for first time Grade 10 or 12 students taking the assessments for the first time in the correct grade.  Results include the number of scores in the performance levels.

The Grade 10 Numeracy Assessment and the Grade 10/12 Literacy Assessment are provincial assessments that assess student proficiency in numeracy and literacy. It is a graduation requirement and students take the assessments in their Grade 10/12 year. Students have opportunities to rewrite the graduation assessments.

The data in this table begins with school year 2017/2018.

Tags: Assessments, Education, literacy, numeracy
Organization: Education Analytics Office
BC Schools - Student Enrolment and FTE by Grade

Student enrolment and FTE by Grade to 2023/2024, including facility type and counts by indigeneity.
Due to size, the data have been separated into three documents in each format (Excel and CSV): 1991/91 to 2003/04; 2004/2005 to 2019/2020; 2020/21 to 2025/2026

Tags: FTE, Indigenous, aboriginal, enrollment, facility type, grade, school, student
Organization: Education Analytics Office
BC Schools - Eligible to Graduate Rate

Proportions of eligible-to-graduate Grade 12 students who graduated from 1991/1992 to 2023/2024.

Students may only appear once in this dataset. This data shows the first record where a student is marked as being eligible to graduate. The GRADUATION_COUNT column details whether a student graduated within the same year that they were first marked as being eligible to graduate.

The data is only for residents. Non-resident students are removed from this dataset.


Tags: completion, graduation, student
Organization: Education Analytics Office
Northern Caribou Habitat Units of the Itcha and Ilgachuz Areas - Cariboo Region

1:50,000 habitat mapping for northern caribou in the Itcha and Ilgachuz Mtn. Areas, circa 1986.

Tags: BC, Canada, Cariboo, Ilgachuz, Itcha, Northern Caribou, Yalakom, habitat units, lichen
Organization: Regional Operations - Cariboo
Local Health Area Boundaries

Local Health Area (LHA) boundaries; 2022 boundary configuration.

The LHAs are a mutually exclusive and exhaustive classification of the land area in BC. LHAs are contiguous (land area is geographically adjacent) and fit within an existing geographical hierarchy structure, e.g., cannot violate higher-level geography boundaries such as the Health Service Delivery Areas (HSDA) and Health Authorities (HA).

Tags: Health, Health Authority, Health Boundary, LHA, Local Health Area
Organization: Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies
Courts - Appearances - 5 Yr Location Report - Dashboard

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This is a **5 Year Location Report** by court level, division and class, as represented in the Courts Dashboard.


•	“Scheduled Court Appearances” refers to the number of occasions when cases are scheduled to be before the court for a specific reason, such as the first appearance, case conference, trial, and sentencing.  (* Note that not all scheduled appearances occur, and they may be adjourned prior to the appearance date).

 
•	Supreme Court criminal scheduled appearances are not currently available.

 
•	The extracts report the total number of scheduled appearances in courthouses across BC.


•	 Fiscal Year datasets are available and are based on the scheduled appearance date.


      

  


Tags: Courts, Locations, appearance, court appearances, courts, locations
Organization: Court Services
Courts - Appearances - 5 Yr Provincial Report - Dashboard

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This is a **5 Year Provincial Report** by court level, division and class, as represented in the Courts Dashboard.


•	“Scheduled Court Appearances” refers to the number of occasions when cases are scheduled to be before the court for a specific reason, such as the first appearance, case conference, trial, and sentencing.  (* Note that not all scheduled appearances occur, and they may be adjourned prior to the appearance date). 


•	Supreme Court criminal scheduled appearances are not currently available. 


•	The extracts report the total number of scheduled appearances in courthouses across BC.


•	 Fiscal Year datasets are available and are based on the scheduled appearance date.




Tags: Courts, PROVINCIAL, Provincial, appearance, court appearances, courts
Organization: Court Services
Courts - Appearances - 5 Yr Regional Report - Dashboard

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This is a **5 Year Regional Report** by court level, division and class, as represented in the Courts Dashboard.


•	“Scheduled Court Appearances” refers to the number of occasions when cases are scheduled to be before the court for a specific reason, such as the first appearance, case conference, trial, and sentencing.  (* Note that not all scheduled appearances occur, and they may be adjourned prior to the appearance date). 


•	Supreme Court criminal scheduled appearances are not currently available. 


•	The extracts report the total number of scheduled appearances in courthouses across BC by 5 BC regions.


•	 Fiscal Year datasets are available and are based on the scheduled appearance date.



 



Tags: Courts, Regional, appearance, court appearances, courts, regional
Organization: Court Services
Courts - Appearances - 5 Yr Regional Report - CSB

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This is a **5 Year Regional Report** by court level, division and class, as represented by the Court Services Branch.


•	“Scheduled Court Appearances” refers to the number of occasions when cases are scheduled to be before the court for a specific reason, such as the first appearance, case conference, trial, and sentencing.  (* Note that not all scheduled appearances occur, and they may be adjourned prior to the appearance date). 


•	Supreme Court criminal scheduled appearances are not currently available. 


•	The extracts report the total number of scheduled appearances in courthouses across BC by 5 BC regions.


•	 Fiscal Year datasets are available and are based on the scheduled appearance date.





Tags: Courts, Regional, appearance, court appearances, courts, regional
Organization: Court Services
Courts - Session Hours - 5 Yr Regional Report - CSB

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This is a **5 Year Regional Report** by court level, division and class, as represented by the Court Services Branch.

•	“Session Hours” refers to the amount of time a matter is heard in court. 


•	Time is reported to the nearest five minutes and includes the time when court is adjourned for any reason where staff must remain in attendance until court resumes. 


•	The extracts report the total number of court hours in courthouses across BC. 


•	Fiscal Year datasets are available and are based on when the matter was heard.




Tags: Courts, Regional, court hours, court services, courts, hours, regional, session, session hours
Organization: Court Services
Courts - Session Hours - 5 Yr Location Report - Dashboard

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This is a **5 Year Location Report** by court level, division and class, as represented in the Courts Dashboard.

•	"Session Hours” refers to the amount of time a matter is heard in court.


•	Time is reported to the nearest five minutes and includes the time when court is adjourned for any reason where staff must remain in attendance until court resumes. 


•	The extracts report the total number of court hours in courthouses across BC. 


•	Fiscal Year datasets are available and are based on when the matter was heard.





Tags: Courts, Locations, court hours, courts, hours, locations, session hours
Organization: Court Services
Courts - Session Hours - 5 Yr Regional Report - Dashboard

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This is a **5 Year Regional Report** by court level, division and class, as represented in the Courts Dashboard.


•	“Session Hours” refers to the amount of time a matter is heard in court.


•	Time is reported to the nearest five minutes and includes the time when court is adjourned for any reason where staff must remain in attendance until court resumes.


•	The extracts report the total number of court hours in courthouses across BC.


•	Fiscal Year datasets are available and are based on when the matter was heard.


   


Tags: Courts, Regional, court documents, courts, document, documents, documents filed, regional
Organization: Court Services
Courts - Session Hours - 5 Yr Provincial Report - Dashboard

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This is a **5 Year Provincial Report** by court level, division and class, as represented in the Courts Dashboard.


•	“Session Hours” refers to the amount of time a matter is heard in court. 


•	Time is reported to the nearest five minutes and includes the time when court is adjourned for any reason where staff must remain in attendance until court resumes. 


•	The extracts report the total number of court hours in courthouses across BC. 


•	Fiscal Year datasets are available and are based on when the matter was heard.



    

Tags: Courts, PROVINCIAL, Provincial, court hours, courts, hours, provincial, session, session hours
Organization: Court Services