California Open Data Publisher's Handbook
Documents and ResourcesCA Open Data Portal
  • Introduction
  • ☑️1. Review the Pre-Publishing Checklist
  • 📈2. Prepare Data for Publishing
  • 📙3. Create Metadata and Data Dictionary
  • 🔼4. Upload the Dataset
  • 👍5. Get Final Publishing Approval
  • 🔄6. Update and Maintain the Dataset
  • 📣Feedback & Help
  • Reference
    • The What and Why of Open Data
    • Open Data Portals Managed by State Entities
    • Data Preparation and Formatting Guidance
      • Column Headers and Order
      • Date and Time
      • Text
      • Numeric
      • Addresses
    • Metadata Field Definitions
    • Data Dictionary: What to Include
    • Detailed Steps for Uploading Data to the Portal
    • Email Templates
    • Glossary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Version and Changelog
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2. Prepare Data for Publishing

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This section provides high level things to check when preparing your data. You will likely need to do additional quality checks that are specific to your data. Please take this section as minimum things to check.

See below to help us build out more detailed guides and references for data preparation and data quality.

Checklist

Resources on using and exporting delimited files like CSV

data preparation and formatting guidance
What Is a CSV File? Guide to Uses and Benefits (published by flatfile.com)
Import or export text (.txt or .csv) files in Microsoft Excel (published by Microsoft)
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