Public data and discovery

The downstream value of survey data is shared, citable, lasting records. When an organization is ready, it can publish approved records to CensusIO’s public data layer: a curated, public archive that anyone can discover and cite, without an account. It is the one place data crosses organization boundaries, and it only ever shows a curated set of fields, never your raw record.

In this section

Discovery The public map, the per-record pages, and citations.

What is shared Exactly which fields go public, and which never do.

Permanence Why publishing is a deliberate, lasting step.

The public API Read public observations programmatically.

How a record actually gets published (only approved records, the “Make public” step) is covered in Review and approval.