Ontario Archives Descriptive Guide for Record Creators and Assets

A list of Government of Ontario agencies, people, and private sector organizations that have created archival records. The dataset provides descriptions of the records and their creators, linking content creators to their records. It is published by the Government of Ontario under the OGL-CA-2.0 license and was last updated on April 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Build a knowledge graph linking organizations to their archival assets based on the described creator-record relationships.
• Analyze the distribution of archival records across government and private sector creators.
• Search and filter archival collections by creator type or description metadata.

Strengths

• Links content creators directly to their records, enabling relational analysis.
• Published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license, facilitating open use.
• Last updated on April 17, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its Ontario-specific scope.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario | Gouvernement de l'Ontario

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:42:28.516600.

Geography

Ontario, Canada