ACT Open Data Portal: Dataset Metadata and Licence

actopendata/dataset-metadata

Descriptive metadata for one dataset on the ACT Open Data Portal (www.data.act.gov.au), chosen by its 8-character dataset id: name, description, publishing agency (attribution), declared licence, category, tags, creation and last data update times, the data and web addresses and the publisher's custom fields such as update frequency. Use it to check what a dataset holds and under which licence before querying its rows. An unknown dataset id is refused as a validation error. ACT Government data as served by Omnial; not an official ACT Government product.

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Price

$0.0026 per call

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Data source

ACT Government Open Data Portal (data.act.gov.au)

Data from the ACT Government, published on the ACT Open Data Portal (data.act.gov.au). Attribute the publishing directorate named in each dataset's metadata and honour that dataset's declared licence (commonly Creative Commons Attribution 4.0). Served by Omnial; not an official ACT Government product.

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// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "actopendata/dataset-metadata" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "actopendata/dataset-metadata" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "actopendata/dataset-metadata", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "actopendata/dataset-metadata", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Pricing

Every charge this tool can incur.

Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0026

Updated: Oct 21, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "dataset_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "dataset_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}$",
      "description": "The dataset's 8-character id, two groups of four lowercase letters or digits joined by a hyphen, for example jzzy-44un."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "id",
    "name"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The dataset id."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The dataset's title."
    },
    "tags": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "The publisher's tags."
    },
    "domain": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The portal host."
    },
    "webUri": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The dataset's page on the portal."
    },
    "dataUri": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The row-query address of the dataset on the portal."
    },
    "license": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The licence the publisher declared for this dataset, or null when none is declared."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The portal category."
    },
    "createdAt": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "When the dataset was created, ISO 8601."
    },
    "updatedAt": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "When the dataset record last changed, ISO 8601."
    },
    "attribution": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The publishing agency to credit."
    },
    "description": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The publisher's description."
    },
    "customFields": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Publisher-defined fields in named groups, for example posting frequency and time period.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "dataUpdatedAt": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "When the rows last changed, ISO 8601."
    },
    "attributionLink": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The publisher's link for the dataset."
    },
    "metadataUpdatedAt": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "When the metadata last changed, ISO 8601."
    }
  },
  "description": "The portal's metadata record for the dataset.",
  "additionalProperties": true
}