The Knowledge Hub(Linked Data in Local Government)

International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO UK)

Stephen DaleDirector Semantix (UK) LtdAssociate Consultant LG Improvement & Development

An evangelist and practitioner in the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Social Media applications to support personal self-development and knowledge sharing.

Steve was the business lead and information architect for the community of practice platform currently deployed across the UK local government sector, the largest professional network of its type, and continues to play a key role in the support of virtual communities of practice for value creation in public services. Currently business lead and system architect for the Knowledge Hub.

Stephen Dale (Steve)

Who I am

The Knowledge HubThe Knowledge Hub

Knowledge Bite

6 April 2010

What problem are we What problem are we trying to solve?trying to solve?

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Social and professional networks proliferateSocial and professional networks proliferate

Where do I find the information I need to do my job?

Partnerships and places library

Which communities and networks do I need to join?

Conversations are Conversations are getting more granular getting more granular

and increasingly and increasingly dissagregateddissagregated

Data, data everywhere….

257 CLG data sets, others with local impact, for sure

more to come

Regional data observatories and LIS

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All kinds of locally held data

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But almost no connectivity

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✘MachineHuman

Data hidden behind apps or notin linked format

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Audit Commission National Indicator Set

Enough about the

problems….what’s the

solution?

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Knowledge Hub (Conceptual)

Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice

Mashup CentreMashup Centre

App StoreApp Store

Data Integration & AggregationData Integration & Aggregation

APIAPI

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Personalisation(Digital

Footprint)

Personalisation(Digital

Footprint)

Websites, Blogs, Twitter

Forms-based data entry for benchmark

comparisons

Dataset 1

Public Datasets

Plug-ins/Widgets

Apps, widgets, bookmarklets

Knowledge Hub Technology Stack

• Multi-source fetch / indexing• Federated search• Real-time results clustering• Automatic tag suggestions• Dataset visualisation / comparison• Linked Data

• Open API – Intelligus SDK• Open Social container• WSRP producer / consumer• Netvibes widgets / Google gadgets• WebDAV

Open Architecture, Open Source..open, open , open…

Third Party Third Party IntegrationsIntegrations•Open Office •BI / Reporting•Workflow / BPM•NetVibes•Open Social•CalDAV•SalesForce•Vaadin

Web Service fort Remote Portlets

Semantically Linked Online Communities

Open Authentication

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning"

Agile Development Process

To summarise,it’s….

References• http://sioc-project.org/• http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-spec-os-01.ht

ml• http://www.opensocial.org/• http://openid.net/• http://oauth.net/• http://www.openauthentication.org/• http://www.openoffice.org/• http://www.webdav.org/• http://intelligusnet.pfiks.com/opencontent/default.asp• http://www.pfiks.com/opencontent/default.asp• http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk

Thank you and Questions

stephendale

steve.dale@semantix.co.uksteve.dale@gmail.com http://twitter.com/stephendale

http://steve-dale.net