Following the decommissioning of the Productivity Commission website (productivity.govt.nz) the Treasury has released a data file that maps the productvity.govt.nz URLs of migrated web pages and files (primarily PDFs and MS Excel files) to their new URLs on this Treasury (treasury.govt.nz) website.
The purpose of the data file release is to support researchers and other stakeholders of the Productivity Commission who may have cited the Commission's inquiry reports, submissions received, research papers and corporate documents and need to know whether or not they remain in the public domain, and if so at what new URL.
Where legacy files and pages did not migrate to the Treasury website these are indicated in the data file's 'Migration to Treasury website status' column. The data file is a partial inventory only of the legacy website because all image files are excluded from the data file; with one exception, images did not migrate to the Treasury website.
The data file is available in two formats:
- CSV - Is machine readable. Is in Unicode UTF-8 format for te reo Māori macron support.
- MS Excel - Has filters applied to the data file column headers to allow for filtering and sorting and includes the Data file columns table below in a separate sheet.
The data file represents the Treasury's best efforts with the information available to it during its work to support the disestablishment of the Productivity Commission and the Treasury has no plans to improve the data set or issue further updates.
The Treasury has also supplied in the data file a URL for pages or files in snapshots made by the National Library's National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA). See the National Library catalogue entry for the New Zealand Productivity Commission website snapshots.
Data file columns#
| Data file column header | Format | Scope | Quality issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Integer | Provides a count of rows of files or pages in the data file. Rows are sorted initally by legacy Productivity Commission URL. Ordered from 1 to 4057. | None |
| Legacy Productivity Commission (productivity.govt.nz) URL | URI | The URL that a page or file had on the Productivity Commission website. Image files are excluded. | None |
| Media type | Text | The media type (also known as a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions or MIME type) of the Productivity Commission web page (text/html) or file (eg application/pdf). May be useful for filtering. | None |
| Pages: Legacy Productivity Commission (productivity.govt.nz) page title | Text | For web pages on the legacy Productivity Commission website the title has been supplied. May help the data file user with searching as the page URL often used selected keywords only from the page title. | Some legacy page titles could not be established by the Treasury, these are indicated with Not Found. |
| Treasury (treasury.govt.nz) file name | Text | For files that have migrated to the Treasury website only the title that is used to profile and hyperlink to the file has been supplied. | None |
| Treasury (treasury.govt.nz) URL | URI | URL of the page or file in its new Treasury website location. Material that did not migrate will not have a URL supplied. | None |
| Title of page or file on Treasury (treasury.govt.nz) | Text | Page or file title on Treasury website. | None |
| Files: Legacy Productivity Commission (productivity.govt.nz) page providing context for file | URI | The legacy Productivity Commission website page where files (typically PDF or MS Excel) were listed and hyperlinked. | The Treasury may not have been able to establish these URIs, so some may be listed as Not Found or the data left blank. |
| Files: Treasury (treasury.govt.nz) page providing context for collection of files | URI | The key Treasury website page where migrated files (typically PDF or MS Excel) are listed and hyperlinked with some contextual information. | None |
| Files: Specific Treasury (treasury.govt.nz) page providing context for file | URI | Some PDF and MS Excel files for major publications have their own profile page on the new Treasury website in addition to being listed in Productivity Commission inquiry pages. | None |
| Migration to Treasury website status | Text | Status note indicating whether or not material migrated to the Treasury (TSY) website from the Productivity Commission (PC) website, and if it did migrate what approach was taken eg, to bring files only and to provide only minimal context. In some cases the Treasury has re-published draft inquiry reports and older corporate documents that the Productivity Commission had itself withdrawn from public access. | None |
| NDHA URL of Productivity Commission site page or file | URI | National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) snapshot URLs using either the 4 December 2024 snapshot or the 24 April 2024 snapshot. National Library catalogue record for National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) snaphsots of the New Zealand Productivity Commission website providing access to the snapshots: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22985457. | It is not possible to confirm that all NDHA URLs are correct as the NDHA may not have been able to crawl the file or page. |
| NDHA URL of legacy Productivity Commission site page providing context for a file | URI | National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) snapshot URLs using either the 4 December 2024 snapshot or the 24 April 2024 snapshot. National Library catalogue record for National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) snaphsots of the New Zealand Productivity Commission website providing access to the snapshots: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22985457. | It is not possible to confirm that all NDHA URLs are correct as the NDHA may not have been able to crawl the file or page. |
| Notes | Text | Supplemental information that may be useful to the user of the data file. | None |
| Migrated material organising tags on Treasury site | Text | Treasury website content management system (CMS) media collection or publication set taxonomy terms used to group related pages and files together for administrative purposes. May be a useful filter for users of the data file eg, to group all Productivity Commission annual report files have the term Productivity-Commission-Corporate-Documents-Annual-Reports. | None |