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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github
Domain
content

Research direction

Open the repository's GitHub page and identify the ministry or organization that owns it, then use the Ministry Short Codes table in this issue to select the matching topic. Review the repository for additional useful topics, and finish when the owner topic has been added and the repository metadata is more discoverable.

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Description

TL;DR

Topics greatly improve the discoverability of repos; please add the short code from the table below to the topics of your repo so that ministries can use GitHub's search to find out what repos belong to them and other visitors can find useful content (and reuse it!).

Why Topic

In short order we'll add our 800th repo. This large number clearly demonstrates the success of using GitHub and our Open Source initiative. This huge success means it's critical that we work to make our content as discoverable as possible. Through discoverability, we promote code reuse across a large decentralized organization like the Government of British Columbia as well as allow ministries to find the repos they own.

What to do

Below is a table of abbreviation a.k.a short codes for each ministry; they're the ones used in all @gov.bc.ca email addresses. Please add the short codes of the ministry or organization that "owns" this repo as a topic.

add a topic

That's it, you're done!!!

How to use

Once topics are added, you can use them in GitHub's search. For example, enter something like org:bcgov topic:citz to find all the repos that belong to Citizens' Services. You can refine this search by adding key words specific to a subject you're interested in. To learn more about searching through repos check out GitHub's doc on searching.

Pro Tip 🤓
  • If your org is not in the list below, or the table contains errors, please create an issue here.

  • While you're doing this, add additional topics that would help someone searching for "something". These can be the language used javascript or R; something like opendata or data for data only repos; or any other key words that are useful.

  • Add a meaningful description to your repo. This is hugely valuable to people looking through our repositories.

  • If your application is live, add the production URL.

Ministry Short Codes

Short Code Organization Name
AEST Advanced Education, Skills & Training
AGRI Agriculture
ALC Agriculture Land Commission
AG Attorney General
MCF Children & Family Development
CITZ Citizens' Services
DBC Destination BC
EMBC Emergency Management BC
EAO Environmental Assessment Office
EDUC Education
EMPR Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources
ENV Environment & Climate Change Strategy
FIN Finance
FLNR Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development
HLTH Health
IRR Indigenous Relations & Reconciliation
JEDC Jobs, Economic Development & Competitiveness
LBR Labour Policy & Legislation
LDB BC Liquor Distribution Branch
MMHA Mental Health & Addictions
MAH Municipal Affairs & Housing
BCPC Pension Corporation
PSA Public Service Agency
PSSG Public Safety and Solicitor General
SDPR Social Development & Poverty Reduction
TCA Tourism, Arts & Culture
TRAN Transportation & Infrastructure

NOTE See an error or omission? Please create an issue here to get it remedied.

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