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Description
Brisbane City Council provides a dataset of library events via its open data platform. The data includes event locations, dates, times, costs, booking requirements, and venue information. It is sourced from the Trumba Calendar API, transformed into a CSV, and updated daily, with feeds limited to the next 2,000 events.
Use Cases
Mapping library event locations and frequencies based on venue and location data.
Analyzing event scheduling patterns based on dates and times.
Assessing public event costs and booking requirements for accessibility studies.
Strengths
Data is updated daily, suggesting high recency.
Source API provides multiple feed formats (JSON, CSV, XML, RSS).
License is clearly stated as CC-BY-4.0.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data scope is limited to the next 2,000 events from the API.
Provenance
Source
Brisbane City Council via Trumba Calendar API.
Collection Method
Transformed extract created using the Trumba Calendar API JSON feed, converted to CSV.
Time Range
Covers upcoming events, limited to the next 2,000.
Freshness
Updated daily.
Geography
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The primary data format listed is HTML; the underlying CSV must be accessed via the provided API feeds.