City government budget at a high level. This category is looking at budgets, that is the planned government expenditure for the upcoming year, and not the actual expenditure.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| In an open format | Only PDF is available, not machine-readable though. | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | There is no license declaration in the website. Regarding the definition of copyright content stated by the Law 9.610/1998 in Article 7, XIII, a dataset will be copyrightable only if its organization involves an intellectual creation. In this case, data is primary or factual, so we can assume that it is open or public. |
| findable | 4 | I already used this dataset for research purpose. |
| findable_steps | Type “Orçamento municipal Rio de Janeiro”, portuguese for “Rio de Janeiro Municipal Budget” and click on the first link. | |
| licence_url | https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | The data is provided in a pdf format, so it is not readable by machines. |
| collector_name | Finance Secretary of Rio de Janeiro (Secretaria de Fazenda do Rio de Janeiro) | |
| characteristics | Budget per government department, Budget per sub-department, Descriptions for budget sections | |
| location | https://www2.rio.rj.gov.br/smf/orcamento/loa.asp - Rio de Janeiro City Hall, https://www.camara.rj.gov.br/orcamento_municipal_loa.php - Rio de Janeiro City Council | I will be considering the former in this evaluation. |