British Columbia Data Catalogue
The British Columbia Data Catalogue is the official open data portal for the Government of British Columbia, Canada. Built on the CKAN open data platform, it provides programmatic access to thousands of BC government datasets spanning census and demographic data, environmental and climate information, geospatial and mapping data, financial reports, transportation and infrastructure data, and health and social services statistics. The CKAN API at api/3/action/ enables searching, listing, and retrieving dataset metadata and resources without authentication.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles British Columbia Data Catalogue the way a machine reads it — 13 machine-readable artifacts across 7 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — British Columbia Data Catalogue scores 29.2/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile British Columbia Data Catalogue
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for British Columbia Data Catalogue. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 7
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
BC Data Catalogue CKAN API
The BC Data Catalogue exposes a CKAN v3 REST API at https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/api/3/action/ providing programmatic access to BC government open datasets. Key endpoints in...
British Columbia Data Catalogue Datasets API
The Datasets API from British Columbia Data Catalogue — 4 operation(s) for datasets.
British Columbia Data Catalogue Groups API
The Groups API from British Columbia Data Catalogue — 2 operation(s) for groups.
British Columbia Data Catalogue Organizations API
The Organizations API from British Columbia Data Catalogue — 2 operation(s) for organizations.
British Columbia Data Catalogue Resources API
The Resources API from British Columbia Data Catalogue — 2 operation(s) for resources.
British Columbia Data Catalogue Site API
The Site API from British Columbia Data Catalogue — 1 operation(s) for site.
British Columbia Data Catalogue Tags API
The Tags API from British Columbia Data Catalogue — 2 operation(s) for tags.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
BC Data Catalogue CKAN API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
British Columbia Data Catalogue Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for British Columbia Data Catalogue — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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