This page documents the metadata for the OpenFEMA Datasets API data feed.
Entity Name
OpenFemaDataSets
Description
The dataset lists the published datasets available via FEMA's API
Version:
1
Program URL
Contact
OpenFEMA - openfema@fema.gov
API Endpoint
/api/open/v1/OpenFemaDataSets
Full Data
| Format | Address |
|---|---|
| csv | /api/open/v1/OpenFemaDataSets.csv |
| json | /api/open/v1/OpenFemaDataSets.json |
| jsona | /api/open/v1/OpenFemaDataSets.jsona |
Keywords
open, data, fema, datasets, opengov, grant data, disasters, api
Data Fields
| Name | Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| identifier | identifier | string | Unique ID for a dataset |
| name | Name | string | Name of the dataset. |
| title | Title | string | Human-readable name of the asset. Should be in plain English and include sufficient detail to facilitate search and discovery. |
| description | Description | string | Human-readable description (e.g., an abstract) with sufficient detail to enable a user to quickly understand whether the asset is of interest. |
| distribution | Distribution | string | Holds multiple download URLs for datasets composed of multiple files and/or file types |
| webService | Web Service | string | Endpoint of web service to access dataset. |
| dataDictionary | Data Dictionary | string | URL to the data dictionary for the dataset or API. Note that documentation other than a data dictionary can be referenced using Related Documents as shown in the expanded fields. |
| keyword | Keyword | string | Tags (or keywords) help users discover your dataset; please include terms that would be used by technical and non-technical users. |
| modified | Modified | string | Most recent date on which the dataset was changed, updated or modified. |
| publisher | Publisher | string | The publishing entity. |
| contactPoint | Contact POC | date | Contact person's name for the asset. |
| mbox | POC Email Address | string | Contact person's email address. |
| accessLevel | Access Level | string | The degree to which this dataset could be made publicly-available, regardless of whether it has been made available. Choices: public (data asset is or could be made publicly available to all without restrictions), restricted public (data asset is available under certain use restrictions), or non-public (data asset is not available to members of the public). |
| landingPage | Program Home Page | string | Alternative landing page used to redirect user to a contextual, Agency-hosted "homepage" for the dataset or API when selecting this resource from the Data.gov user interface. |
| temporal | Date Range | date | The range of temporal applicability of a dataset (i.e., a start and end date of applicability for the data). |
| api | API | boolean | Is the dataset part of the FEMA API |
| version | Version | number | Major version number of the dataset. Version number does not change when additional fields are added to an existing dataset. The documentation will be updated to reflect the new fields. |
| lastRefresh | Last Refresh | date | Last date the dataset was updated in the datastore |
| id | ID | string | Unique ID assigned to the record |
Last Updated:
04/23/2015 - 10:19