Standards for sharing and linking open data
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This document discusses standards for sharing and linking open data in local government. It describes ESD's standards model, which defines semantics and syntax. The standards include core reference data like companies and legislation that local authorities can use. Lists from the standards are published as linked open data and can be queried. Examples show how the lists define services, metrics, and other data. The standards aim to improve data sharing and reuse across local government.
Standards for sharing and linking open data
- 1. www.esd.org supported by the Local Government Association a local government initiative sharing nationally to improve services locally Standards Standards for sharing and linking open data Nicki Gill and Tim Adams
- 2. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative Standards Model esd’s standards define what we call things = the semantics Seven layers of standards Peterborough’s project has some work on the format of inventories & datasets = syntax
- 3. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative Core reference data Companies Legislation Local authorities(and more) Administrative geographies Services, circumstances, Metrics, ... Finance
- 4. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative The lists from standards.esd.org.uk
- 5. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative Example of how the lists are used See publications on Using Lists in local government
- 6. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative Local Government Business Model
- 7. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative Open Linked Data • Lists published under Open Government Licence • Available as Linked Data • Can query via SPARQL • Every list and term has a URI, which: – Precisely defines something (eg service, function, metric type) – ‘Resolves’ in a web browser to show properties which define it and link it to other things • Follow these rules for publishing
- 8. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative Some of the lists Group by council function Group from customer perspective Categorise metrics Categorisemetrics Define breakdowns (= data dimensions)
- 9. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative Relevance to BIS Breakthrough Projects • Kent - linking services to legislation.gov.uk URIs to define council legal duties to deliver services and hold records • Cheshire East - defining non-official geographies (eg town centres) as open data against which data for many metric types will be published • Peterborough and Redbridge - defining standard for inventories of datasets index by service and function to be used by data.gov.uk
- 10. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative General rules All projects should: – Reference datasets and data items against national core reference data (including esd lists) where possible – Comply with outputs of Peterborough and Redbridge work so your data can be harvested by data.gov.uk – Share your formats and vocabularies to encourage re-use
- 11. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative More information Standards: standards.esd.org.uk Help: support@esd.org.uk Knowledge Hub Group for Peterborough work: https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk/c/my_places/view? groupId=11340836 Contacts:
- 12. sharing nationally to improve services locally a local government initiative Inventories and aggregators of local data Common inventory formats for harvesting Common dataset formats for combing similar data from different councils Common vocabularies to identify similar datasets and formats (Services List + Functions List)
Editor's Notes
- #3: This slide just illustrates LeGSB’s diagram defining the 7 types of standard. esd-toolkit’s standards are purely concerned with semantics although there is some BIS Breakthough work by Peterborough around sharing formats (ie syntax) for inventories and for individual datasets.
- #4: When publishing open data you should use national recognised identifiers where possible for things like: local authorities, geographical areas, finance codes... esd-standards provides identifiers, names and descriptions for key concepts in local government like service, function, metric, process.
- #5: This is the full set of lists available from standards.esd.org.uk where you can browse them and download in a variety of formats.
- #6: The lists published by ESD are used by GOV.UK (formerly Local Directgov) and internally by many councils. Our “Using Lists” page (see link) gives some very short case studies.
- #7: This rather complicated diagram shows how all the lists relate to one another.
- #8: All the lists and relationships between them are published under the open government licence as ‘linked data’. You should consider that licence for your data. You may publish in full Linked Data format or just in a variety of non-proprietary formats like CSV and XML.
- #9: Looking at a a few of the most relevant lists to BIS Breakthrough projects... The Services List defines every service relevant to English local authorities in some detail. There are 1,400 + services; not all relevant to all council types. Some are internal supporting services, like HR The functions list is a hierarchical structure that sits on top of the Services list to allow services to be grouped by local government function (housing, education, environment, etc) The Website navigation list gives a similar grouping but using more citizen-centric terminology. It is structured such that bit might form a model council website navigation structure, although councils should personalise The Metric types list defines measures of performance and demography. These are used in the LGA’s LG Inform and LG Inform Plus reporting tools. Metric types are indexed according to services and functions. The Circumstances List provides categories by which metrics can be broken down like: age bands, ethnic groups, types of housing, budget categories...
- #10: If you are publishing any open data, one of more of the lists is likely to be relevant to you. Here are examples of projects that use the standards.
- #11: Here are some general rules applicable to all projects. FYI, these are the projects: • Barnet London Borough - Barnet Data Store• Cambridgeshire County Council - Cambridgeshire Insight Open Data: Stimulating Economic Growth and Encouraging Innovation.• Cheshire East Council - URIs for natural neighbourhoods• Devon County Council - Local Government Community Data – opportunities for localities and businesses• Hampshire County Council - Linked Open Data Planning Register• Kent County Council - Local government legal and business guidance as open data• Lancashire County Council - Lancashire Local Information Service (LIS) Project• Leeds City Council - development of the West Yorkshire Observatory• Leicester City Council -The automation of the publishing of Open Data and internal MI data in a standard, machine readable, linked format• Peterborough City Council - Index of open data sets to aid comparison across councils.• Redbridge Council - DataShare• City of York Council - York Open Data – Empowering communities to access services -
- #13: This slide is included to describe the Peterborough led work in more detail if needed.