The document discusses LG Inform Plus, a local government infrastructure for improving information delivery. It provides an overview of the functions and services available through the infrastructure, including inventories of council datasets, schemas for data structure, a dataset index, URI classification sets, and an incentive scheme for standard-compliant datasets. Users can access datasets, schemas, and other resources to help manage and share local information.

1. Improving delivery through a
Local Information Infrastructure
Tim Adams
Programme Manager (LGA)
@DrTimAdams
27 March 2015 www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus

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Overview of the infrastructure
Functions
Services
Datasets
Incentive
scheme
Inventory
Schemas
Aggregator
Councils
Areas
Other...
data.gov.uk
O D I
certificates
NationalLocal
Neighbour
hoods
Classifications
Data

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LG Inform Plus: providing
information management services
www.esd.org.uk

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esd standards – the home of local
government semantics
standards.esd.org.uk

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esd standards – local government
business model
standards.esd.org.uk/LGBM

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LG Inform Plus: providing
information management services
www.esd.org.uk

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LGA open data pages
Pages at
opendata.esd.org.uk
help navigate local data
Inventories
• guidance on the format
• see other councils’ inventories
• download in CSV or XML
• upload yours in XML
• configure harvesting of yours
Schemas
• browse schemas used by councils
• get guidance on specific schemas
• see council datasets compliant with a
schema
• get data aggregated across all
councils for a single schema
Datasets
• browse and search datasets
uploaded and harvested
Uniform Resource Identifiers
• search URI sets used to classify data
used in local government
• add your own local alternative names
for URIs
Incentive scheme
• see council submissions of datasets
compliant with standard schemas
• participate in the scheme

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Inventories of datasets

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Schemas by function

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Combined index of local datasets

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Datasets from the incentive scheme
Some live feeds and some one-off submissions. Use an inventory to publish all datasets over time.

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URI sets for classification and links
Datasets
Schemas
Data items
Define
structureof
Contain
Local
authorities
Official
geographies
Neighbour-
hoods
Services
grouped
by function
Other eg:
• Planning
categories
• Entertainment
types

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What we know about each service
Service
Web page for each English council

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LG Inform: performance analysis
www.esd.org.uk

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LG Inform Plus: small area reports
www.esd.org.uk

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24. Create your own geographies
http://neighbourhoods.esd.org.uk/

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Direct data feed: via an API
http://developertools.esd.org.uk

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Further information
LG Inform Plus: local.gov.uk/lginformplus
Open data: opendata.esd.org.uk
Standards: standards.esd.org.uk
Help: support@esd.org.uk
Open data knowledge group:
https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk/group
/localopendatacommunity
tim.Adams@local.gov.uk
@DrTimAdams
esd-toolkit@local.gov.uk