Open Source Software Library

Axiom is a free, open-source computer algebra system with a long history. Canadian mathematicians supported through NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) have contributed significantly to its formal mathematics libraries and documentation.

Database schema documentation tooling used in B.C. government projects.

Jupyter Book is an open-source tool for building publication-quality books and documents from computational material. Jupyter Book allows users to write their content in Markdown files or Jupyter notebooks, include computational elements (e.g., code cells) in either type, include rich syntax such as citations, cross-references, and numbered equations, and using a simple command, run the embedded code cells, cache the outputs and convert this content into: a web-based interactive book and a publication-quality PDF.

Notification Documentation is an open-source project or repository maintained by Canadian Digital Service in Canada.

Tools and policy checks that help Government of Canada teams evaluate IBM Cloud deployments against common cloud guardrails. It is useful for repeatable compliance reviews, documentation of security expectations, and sharing implementation patterns across departments.

Draft Government of Canada guidance on open standards, policy-as-code and technology decision-making. It helps public-sector teams document standards, reuse technology choices, and align digital services with open-by-default practices.

Start-here repository for contributors and users of the Government of Canada GitHub organization. It provides orientation material, contribution links, and a lightweight entry point for finding public-sector open-source work.

Static site repository for stories and insights about the design of Canada.ca. The content is useful for teams studying public-sector UX decisions, service patterns, and Canada.ca publishing practices.

Repository for oversight material related to user and workpoint technology in Government of Canada contexts. It provides a public artifact for governance discussions and review practices.

Archived source for the Canada.ca Digital Transformation Office blog. It remains useful as a public record of service-design practices, transformation updates, and web publishing patterns.

Statistics Canada public repository related to the Linkable Data Environment. It supports open sharing of scripts and assets used around data linkage, documentation, and analytical data products.

Companion documentation for Veterans Affairs Canada’s Find Benefits and Services product. It captures product context, research and operating guidance that can be reused by service teams.

Public release repository for Canadian Digital Service site-reliability-engineering practices. It shares operational templates, processes and documentation for running reliable government digital services.

Public repository for opportunities to participate in CDS-facilitated user research. It supports transparent recruitment and helps teams publish research activities in a reusable format.

Guidelines for designing, documenting and operating APIs in the B.C. Government. The repository gives teams a shared reference for consistent, reusable and developer-friendly public-sector APIs.

Database schema documentation tooling used by B.C. Government teams. It helps generate browsable diagrams and metadata so applications are easier to understand and maintain.

A fast static site generator for documentation, blogs, and websites.

A documentation site generator based on Markdown and configurable themes.

A self-hosted documentation and knowledge-base platform organized into books, chapters, and pages.

A modern wiki platform with authentication, search, localization, and storage integrations.

A simple wiki system that stores pages in files and requires no database.

A collaborative knowledge base and team wiki with a clean editing experience.

Collaborative documentation and knowledge management platform for teams.

Collaborative wiki and documentation platform with real-time editing and spaces.

Documentation theme and feature set for building modern sites with MkDocs.

Static site generator optimized for documentation websites and project portals.

Static site generator designed for fast documentation sites using Vue and Markdown.

Next.js-based static site and documentation framework using MDX.