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Taxonomies in the Public Sector meeting of 7 July 2010 at the Food Standards Agency, London



Attendees

Silver Oliver (BBC)

Anne Beach (Natural England)

Ian Bailey (Model Futures)

Sue Brown (Consultant)

Ruth Byford (Essex County Council)

Mike Collett (Vocabulary Management Group)

Adrian de Luca (London Development Agency)

David da Silva (FCO)

Stella Dextre Clarke (Consultant)

Julie Fowler (Tenant Services Authority)

John Hall (Food Standards Agency)

Fran Huckle (FreelanceConsultant)

Helen Lippell (Direct Gov)

Liz Marley (House of Commons)

Mark Maidment (DEFRA)


Keith Rose (Business Innovation Skills)

Helen Skelton (DWP)

Anya Somerville (House of Commons)

Ian Synge (Inchcape Shipping Services)

Tony Timmons (Food Standards Agency)

Judi Vernau (Metataxis)

Michael Warner (MOD) (Chair)



Apologies

Liane Bradbrook (Environmental Agency)

Juliet Brookes (National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services)

Ruth Byford (Essex CC)

Helen Challinor (Dept of Education)

Phil Defriez (Dept of Health)


Carole Edwards (FCO)

Alan Gilchrist (Cura)

Julia Stocken (TNA)

Karen Winchester (Social Care Institute for Excellence)






1. Introduction





The chair welcomed members to the meeting, and thanked Tony Timmons for kindly hosting the event. He also thanked Silver Oliver (BBC) for agreeing to speak on linked data.




  1. Presentation by Silver Oliver







Silver delivers the BBC user facing website focusing on news and sports. People want things not documents and think differently in a non-document centric way, and so this had to be reflected in the construct of the web site.
The BBC took the bold decision to adopt a semantic approach for joining up all the key information content for the World Cup web site. Instead of manually managing some 300 indexes, the content was represented in RDF using triple stores of subject, predicate and object. The key to developing the World Cup web site using a linked data approach is to understand the needs, and take sufficient time to create a client model of things relationships and language. It is important to keep the model simple, use controlled tags and create different views from the content of the model. It is important to look for trusted relationships and identifiers. BBC World Cup web site has been a resounding success. Undertaking a similar approach to managing the BBC news web site is possibly the next step but is a far more complex challenge.
Silver also presented screen shots from the BBC wildlife finder project. This has been a successful implementation of using the linked data approach exploiting published urls for things of interest, instead of the content being created from an asset focus perspective. The BBC wildlife finder uses a rich relationship ontology and is theme focused. Common identifiers which are freely available are stitched semantically together using open source vocabularies. So emphasis is building on existing vocabularies and converting from a taxonomy to an ontological structure. The full presentation hopefully will be hosted on the TiPS wiki (30mb).
Members had several follow up questions to his most interesting talk, and the chair invited Silver to become a TiPS member which he was pleased to accept


MM

Mark to host Silver’s presentation on the TiPS wiki




  1. Event Feedback update







Several members reported on conferences and seminars that they had attended in the past six months, amongst whom Stella briefly covered the European portal for museum artefacts, and Mike Collett the UK architectural thesaurus used by the cultural sector.





  1. TiPS web site update Branch wiki demonstration







Mark Maidment reported that NGLIS would continue to host the TiPS web site. However the but NGLIS is being re-designed. Members invited to review the current TiPS content, and the chair will coordinate the feedback for due consideration. The chair also highlighted that content needed updating and all members were encouraged to submit content to chair. Judi kindly agreed to provide content to assist senior manager’s in understanding their business need for a taxonomy. Mark is to update the wiki list of members and agreed to include a visible link to the wiki from the TiPS web site.


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Members to review TiPS web site and send design suggestions and or content to chair




  1. Membership







The chair warmly thanked members who were stepping down from the TiPS membership, either due to retirement, pastures new, or a shift in responsibilities. This included Phil Defriez and Pat Bell who have made a significant contribution to the success of both TiPS and it’s earlier incarnations dating back to the beginning of the decade;. Nick Tischler for his inquiring mind and expertise; Heather Drewett for organising the successful SharePoint themed meeting



5. Pan-Government News





The chair summarised the work being undertaken by the Public Sector Information Domain team (PSIDT) and the UK Locations Programme Metadata WG.

The PSIDT role is to deliver the information management aspects for the Transformational Government Agenda to improve the delivery of pan government electronic services to the citizen. Representation is primarily from central government departments, as well as local government, and Scottish government.

Main purpose of this month’s meeting was to discuss the work plan for the year, and the activities the PSIDT would be undertaking. The set of deliverables is based on the Cabinet Office Government ICT Strategy which with the change of Government may be subject to some changes.

Four main deliverables have been identified



  1. To produce an outline public sector information management strategy (Q2)

  2. Publish a public sector information architecture supporting code lists and roadmap (Q3)

  3. Describe metadata and vocabulary assets to aid semantic interoperability and support information architecture (Q3)

  4. Produce ‘toolkit’ for technical and data standards (Q3)

PSIDT tasked to establish the agreed design rules for the public sector URI Schemes, URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) providing a means of uniquely identifying a thing or resource. URI schemes will be an integral component of the UK Public Sector Information Architecture. A follow up piece of work has been requested to design how concepts should be defined and associated. This is part of the information architecture to support the release of government data via linked data.
UK Locations Programme Metadata Working Group

The Locations Information Interoperability Board identified the requirement to establish the Location Programme Metadata WG to support delivery of the Locations programme, based on Place Matters: The UK Location Strategy (Nov 2008), which has 5 strategic objectives: -



    1. we know what geo data we have, and avoid duplicating it;

    2. we use common reference data so we know we are talking about the same places;

    3. we can share location-related information easily through a common infrastructure of standards, technology and business relationships;

    4. we have the appropriate skills, both among geographic professionals and among other professional groups who use location information or support its use;

    5. we have strong leadership and governance to drive through change including the implementation of this Strategy and the implementation of INSPIRE [Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe).

The MWG members aim is to support the development in 3 areas: UK Geoportal Discovery Metadata Services (DMS) platform, Statement of requirements for technical aspects of Discovery Metadata Service and its deployment and the initial operational capability.


Output of the MWG has been Discovery Metadata Service position paper that has been submitted to the UK Location Information Interoperability Board for endorsement as the high level logical design of the UKLII Discovery Metadata Service.
Directly related to this membership recommendations of the Discovery metadata service position paper are:





Metadata Standard – to use UK Gemini standard 2.0 – conformant with ISO 19115 and to meet the requirements of the INSPIRE directive. A free metadata tool is developed to support the creation and maintenance of discovery metadata by publishers. GEMET (General multilingual environmental thesaurus will be used as the controlled vocabulary for data sets published under an INSPIRE theme. In addition to controlled vocabularies there is a requirement for controlled code lists to support the harmonisation of metadata. IPSV was also considered but until it is formally managed it will not be used.




6. Brief update from members





Keith reported managing time expired records. Adrian requests members send him their vocabularies. Anne hopes to take forward a thesaurus. Fran has produced a metadata schema and application profile for the British Council. Ian S is constructing a maritime ontology. Sue has involvement with issue of licenses. Anya works on facet navigation for the Parl web site. Liz reported procured an ontology manager for structuring the thesaurus and amalgamating two vocabularies. Helen L has a syndication pilot for Direct Gov where metadata has a key role. David mentioned work at FCO on SharePoint and information management issues. Mike has created a public facing version of their vocabulary bank and have incorporated IPSV. Stella is working on ISO 25964-2 Interoperability Thesauri and other vocabulary mapping aiming for a draft by Dec 2010. Chair informed members that UK Defence Taxonomy version 8.0 has been published, and had completed a specialist taxonomy to support operational activity.

ALL

Request to provide vocabularies to Adrian de Luca

7. Future Topics and Speakers





The chair requested ideas for future topics. Image collections was suggested

The chair requested members to send him other suggestions as well.

Main event is ISKO an all day event on Linked Data at University College London. Chair encouraged members to send events to Mark Maidment for inclusion on TiPS web site, or to notify Mark via the wiki.


ALL

Members are requested to email chair future topic suggestions



8. Date of next TiPS meeting







The next meeting will be held on either 2nd 3rd or 4th November 2010 at DEFRA

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9. Actions





Action

Owner

Mark to host Silver’s presentation on the TiPS wiki

MM

Members to review TiPS web site and send design suggestions and or content to chair

ALL

Request to provide vocabularies to Adrian de Luca

ALL

Members are requested to email chair future topic suggestions

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