seamlessuk seamlessuk – standards in action cathy day essex county council
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seamlessUKseamlessUK – standards in actionCathy Day
Essex County Council
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What is it?
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A public (community) information service
Web-based citizen’s gateway service Single search of multiple sources -
24/365 Databases, websites etc One place to search local and
national information Resources selected for quality,
coverage and applicability
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Benefits to the public
Single point of search and retrieval from joined-up data sources
At deeper level than hypertext links Information is quality controlled and
current Selection of definitive resources
not everything Information is from local, regional and
national sources
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Benefits to Information Providers
E-gov@local: 7 critical tests Joined up Accessible Delivered/supported electronically Delivered jointly Delivered seamlessly Open and accountable Used - promotion of available and accessible
new technologies
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What’s the background?
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The problem
Other……...
Search engines/web sites/portals
The library
Local /voluntary agenciesCouncil sources
multiple places to look
too much information
varying quality
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History
SEAMLESS project in Essex BLR&D – distributed searching of Essex
local information providers (1998 -) First element of the Essex Community
Information Network, includes development of Essex Online portal
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Distributed Citizens InformationInfrastructure
BrandedPortal
Subset of libraryCatalogue- MARC
GILSDatabase
DublinCoreDatabase
Z2WebGateway
http
ProprietarySearchEngine
CrawledWebIndex
Z39.50Z39.50
SelectedWeb Sites
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NOF Consortium Approach
NOF Digitisation bid by Essex to search national and local sources together
SCADS CA/SP Community Advice, Seamless
Portals seamlessUK Available from seamlessUK national
portal (www.seamless-uk.info) and Local Authority websites/portals
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Who are the partners?
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Core partners
Essex County Council Project Leader
Fretwell Downing Informatics Ltd Technical Developer
MDR Partners Project Management, Monitoring and
Evaluation
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National information providers Age Concern BBC Common Purpose HMSO - Inforoute learndirect LASA The Community Legal
Service
NACAB NCVO NHS Direct Online nhs.uk RAD UKOnline
(e-Envoy’s office)
more in the pipeline...
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Local authority partners
Essex Bexley, Brighton & Hove, Bromley,
East Sussex, Kent, Lewisham, Medway, North Lincolnshire
Target audience c6m people
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Vertical Scaling
Distributed Repositories
LocalPortals
RegionalPortals
NationalPortal
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essexonline Partnership
Business & Advice Services
Essex Investment Office Essex Returners Unit Learning Skills Council Careers & Business
Partnership WayMArk Witham CAB
Childcare Early Years Partnership
Health organisations Mid Essex Community Health
Council Essex HA North Essex Mental Health
Partnership
Educational Establishments Anglia Polytechnic
University Chelmsford College Colchester Institute University of Essex
ECC departments Learning Services Social Services Trading Standards etc.
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essexonline Partnership (cont)
Local Government Brentwood District Council Braintree District Council Castle Point Borough Council Chelmsford Borough Council Colchester Borough Council Epping Forest District Council Harlow District Council Maldon District Council Rochford District Council Tendring District Council Uttlesford District Council
Southend on sea Unitary Council Thurrock Unitary Council
Others Essex Fire Service Essex Police
Regional organisations Go East/EEDA Co-East
News Services Thisisessex
Utilities Essex & Suffolk Water
Voluntary Organisations Essex Association of
Community Volunteers Essex Community
Foundation Essex Disabled Peoples
Assoc. Royal Association in Aid of
Deaf People
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What’s the timetable?
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Summer 2002
Phase 1 system Search - keyword, place name Admin interface - configure local targets Reporting - stats Thesaurus - add terms Portlets Accessibility Investigation into GIS solutions Initial user evaluation
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Phase 2
Map based stuff Implement geocoder module Directional maps link
Thesaurus Thesaurus browse Query re-writing Drop into more specialised thesauri Map across multiple thesauri
Metadata Profile refinement Metadata creator refinement
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Phase 2 cont.
Multilingual stuff Translated interfaces Search foreign material Translate thesaurus?
Data sources Content Management Systems OAI SOAP
User Evaluation Delivery channels? Accessibility
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Phase 2 cont.
seamlessUK Geocoder will search a number of geographic data sources to interpret the user’s query All Fields Postcode Data Address-Point Boundary Line OS 1:50,000 Gazetteer
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How does it comply with e-government
targets?
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Government standards e-GIF
XML as integration technology converts existing schemas to XML
structures ‘on the fly’ leveraging ‘legacy’ systems
and e-GMS Ver. 1.0 (April 2002) - qualified Dublin
Core (refinements) + some extensions seamlessUK application profile
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Metadata 2 levels
Resource level tagging of individual records/web pages
seamlessUK application profile Collection level descriptions
RSLP model and schema (Research Support Libraries Programme - www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata.rslp)
Control of vocabulary
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seamlessUK Metadata Application Profile
First draft (Jan 2002) Dublin Core plus some additional elements Compliant with e-government metadata
standard (v1.0 April 2002) Comments from partners and others Interim flat HTML version developed and
used in seamless.dot metadata creator Full XML or RDF schema, implemented in
metadata creator, with associated documentation, instructions and training available later in year
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seamlessUK Metadata Application Profile - Elements
DC.Audience (draft)Availability (some draft) Address details Contact details Access restraints - cost, time, service
coverage
DC.Coverage Spatial Temporal
DC.CreatorDC.Date Modified Issued
DC.DescriptionDC.Format Medium
Function (draft)
DC.Identifier
DC.Language
Learndirect/ MILO tags? (draft)
DC.Publisher
DC.Rights
DC.Subject Keywords Category
DC.Title Alternative Title
DC.Type
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seamlessUK.dot metadata tool seamlessUK.dot Metadata Creator
semi-automatic metadata tool configured to seamlessUK application profile
template approach - hides the syntax verifies metadata is complete and correct output suitable for inclusion in web site links directly to seamlessUK thesaurus and
other standard encoding schemes eg. for GIS as required by project.
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seamlessUK metadata creator template
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seamlessUK metadata output
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seamlessUK thesaurus
Background Initially developed from Essex
Libraries keyword list for Seamless in Essex
Augmented by terms supplied by partner organisations
Full scale revamp 2001 with input from thesaurus expert
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seamlessUK thesaurus (cont)
Comprehensive UK Community Information Thesaurus
Government category list Controlled vocabulary for indexing and
searching Consistent search and retrieval across the
system and for browsing and navigation Centrally maintained ISO standard for monolingual thesauri
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seamlessUK thesaurus (cont) Development work in seamlessUK
Further work on hierarchy and content Ability to identify and display subsets for different
purposes Available for partners to use Available for others to use - subscription
Incorporation of terms from other partners Partners input into future maintenance
Synonyms and homonyms Query expansion and refinement Mapping across domain specific or richer thesauri
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What’s happening now?
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User focus Survey of users needs
libraries, councils, one stop / first stop shops, CAB etc.
Mapping the results to content new national information providers model for local content
Designing and testing the interface how do people search? presented in a user-friendly way
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Rolling out now Current members rolling out now
phased approach Open to new members
local authorities libraries museums archives Contact Essex now, go live early 2003
Open to new national information partners
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seamlessUK basic portal
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seamlessuk branded for essexonline
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Local services page in essexonline
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essexonline search results
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essexonline detailed information
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seamlessUK project web site – www.seamlessuk.info
