improving delivery through a local information infrastructure | tim adams | march 2015

Improving delivery through a

Local Information Infrastructure

Tim Adams

Programme Manager (LGA)

@DrTimAdams

27 March 2015 www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus

www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus

Overview of the infrastructure

Functions

Services

Datasets

Incentive

schemeInventory

Schemas

Aggregator

Councils

Areas

Other...

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certificates

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Neighbour

hoods

ClassificationsData

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LG Inform Plus: providing

information management services

www.esd.org.uk

www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus

esd standards – the home of local

government semantics

standards.esd.org.uk

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esd standards – local government

business model

standards.esd.org.uk/LGBM

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LG Inform Plus: providing

information management services

www.esd.org.uk

www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus

LGA open data pages

Pages at

opendata.esd.org.uk

help navigate local data

Inventories

• guidance on the format

• see other councils’ inventories

• download in CSV or XML

• upload yours in XML

• configure harvesting of yours

Schemas

• browse schemas used by councils

• get guidance on specific schemas

• see council datasets compliant with a

schema

• get data aggregated across all

councils for a single schema

Datasets

• browse and search datasets

uploaded and harvested

Uniform Resource Identifiers

• search URI sets used to classify data

used in local government

• add your own local alternative names

for URIs

Incentive scheme

• see council submissions of datasets

compliant with standard schemas

• participate in the scheme

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Inventories of datasets

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Schemas by function

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Combined index of local datasets

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Datasets from the incentive scheme

Some live feeds and some one-off submissions. Use an inventory to publish all datasets over time.

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URI sets for classification and links

Datasets

Schemas

Data items

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in

Local

authorities

Official

geographies

Neighbour-

hoods

Services

grouped

by function

Other eg:

• Planning

categories

• Entertainment

types

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What we know about each service

Service

Web page for each English council

www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus

LG Inform: performance analysis

www.esd.org.uk

www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus

LG Inform Plus: small area reports

www.esd.org.uk

www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus

Create your own geographies

http://neighbourhoods.esd.org.uk/

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Direct data feed: via an API

http://developertools.esd.org.uk

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Further information

LG Inform Plus: local.gov.uk/lginformplus

Open data: opendata.esd.org.uk

Standards: standards.esd.org.uk

Help: support@esd.org.uk

Open data knowledge group:

https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk/group

/localopendatacommunity

tim.Adams@local.gov.uk

@DrTimAdams

esd-toolkit@local.gov.uk