CalHHS Open Data Publishing Resources

The California Health and Human Services (CalHHS) Open Data Handbook provides guidelines to identify, review, prioritize and prepare publishable CalHHS data for access by the public via the CalHHS Open Data Portal–with a foundational emphasis on value, quality, data and metadata standards, and governance. This handbook is meant to serve as an internal resource and is also freely offered to any party that may be interested in improving the general public’s online access to data and to provide an understanding of the processes by which CalHHS makes its publishable data tables available.

Step by step instructions from data formatting, approval process, creating datasets and resources, and publishing to the portal.

This metadata template is to assist open data publishers in composing and editing quality metadata, before inputting the metadata into the open data portal.

This data dictionary template is to assist open data publishers in composing and editing quality metadata, before inputting the metadata into the open data portal.

Use this Dataset Concept Template to submit dataset concepts to the Agency Open Data Workgroup for review and approval to publish. First - Work within your department to approve the dataset. Second - Send an email request to opendata@chhs.ca.gov with the template attached. The admin team will see that your dataset concept is reviewed.

Guidelines developed by the CalHHS Open Data Workgroup to assist in identifying masked cells with annotations.

Considerations for applying the [CalHHS Data De-Identification Guidelines](https://chhsdata.github.io/dataplaybook//resource_library/#datade-id) to open data publishing.

Please note that this data contains fields with leading zeroes. In order to use this data with Microsoft Excel, you must save the file to your computer and then import the data. If you double-click on the .csv file and allow Excel to open the file automatically, the leading zeroes will disappear.

Instructions for how to enable the feature for your dataset to notify the public about new datasets or updates to existing datasets.

This document shows the fields that should be used to represent addresses. If your dataset contains address fields, follow these naming standards prior to uploading your dataset to the open data portal.

This guide instructs users on how to publish to the CalHHS GeoHub on ArcGIS Online.