1. www.esd.org.uk
a local government initiative sharing nationally
to improve services locally
Data sharing and reporting
on neighbourhoods
Mike Thacker and Nicki Gill
Westfields, Sandbach - 18 February 2014
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Agenda
1. Overview: esd-toolkit and LG Inform Plus
2. esd-standards
3. LG Inform
4. LG Inform Plus
5. Natural Neighbourhoods
6. Cheshire E/W & Warrington requirements
7. Open data: DataShare, data.gov.uk and
esd-standards
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6. Cheshire E/W &
Warrington requirements
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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)
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7. DataShare, data.gov.uk and
esd-standards
• Redbridge changing DataShare so it:
– Creates an inventory of standard format
– Indexes dataset against Functions and Services Lists
– Allows dataset definitions to be shared
– Definitions support URIs
• data.gov.uk automatically harvesting from inventories
• esd-standards
– Functions and Services Lists
– URI sets (inc lists and neighbourhoods)
– Tools for inventories and shared definitions
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More information
Standards: standards.esd.org.uk
Help: support@esd.org.uk
Contacts:
Nicki.Gill@esd.org.uk
Tim.Adams@local.gov.uk
@DrTimAdams
Mike.Thacker@esd.org.uk
@MikeThacker