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)

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)

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)

Alan Gilchrist (Cura)

Julia Stocken (TNA)

Karen Winchester (Social Care Institute for Excellence)

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)
   

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.

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.

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.