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LG Inform Plus Learning Day Training Session
- 1. Tim Adams: Programme Manager rev: April 2016 LG Inform Plus A series of images to simulate the interactive training days run in 2016
- 2. Objectives for the session • Explain the background and vision • Demonstrate the new product • Encourage you to use it: – to adopt the standards in your own organisation – for viewing prep-prepared material – tailoring and building your own material – sharing the information by a variety of channels
- 3. Agenda – 1 (the building blocks) • Background / objectives / take-up • The Landing Page • Tools & content available • Information Sharing Standards • Context & performance reporting with drilldown
- 4. Agenda – 2 (Light touch use) • Small Area Reporting - simple components • Public small area reports • Small area geographies • Creating and using natural neighbourhoods
- 5. Agenda – 3 (Report authoring) • Entering report edit mode • Adding simple components • Adding simple text narratives • Adding fixed text tokens • Adding relative text tokens
- 6. Agenda – 4 (Other tools) • Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface) • Records retention guidance tool • Powers & Duties guidance tool • Open data tools • Conclusions & other questions
- 7. Agenda – 1 (the building blocks) • Background / objectives / take-up • The Landing Page • Tools & content available • Information Sharing Standards • Context & performance reporting with drilldown
- 8. Why have we done this? • Severe financial pressures – Productivity through deconstruction of performance – More sophisticated techniques than the past • Dismantling of previous infrastructures – the demise of the Audit Commission – sector move to self regulation & re-wiring public services – look at industry standards and methods – offer coordinated facilitation not an imposition • Transparency Agenda – legislation advancing on public right of access to data – reduce freedom of information work loads – how do we make data transparent?
- 9. Information Management • Based upon the esd-toolkit programme which first appeared in 2001 • Sector-led creation of information sharing standards to aid knowledge creation and data sharing • Local Government Business Model sets out the semantics • Open Data inventories, schemas and validation tools promote easier data publication • Performance and context reporting tools • Direct data feed via an Application Interface (API) • Records management tools linked to legislation @LGInformPlus
- 10. Self financing – subscriptions led • Four subscriptions bands based upon organisation size: – Large Councils - £2260pa – Counties, large unitaries, mets – Medium Councils - £1450pa – Medium unitaries, mets – Small Councils - £735pa - Districts – Fire Authorities - £525pa • This funds: – Online services and resources – Core small programme team and support service – Events and engagement – New developments – Information standards @LGInformPlus
- 11. Agenda – 1 (the building blocks) • Background / objectives / take-up • The Landing Page • Tools & content available • Information Sharing Standards • Context & performance reporting with drilldown
- 22. Agenda – 1 (the building blocks) • Background / objectives / take-up • The Landing Page • Tools & content available • Information Sharing Standards • Context & performance reporting with drilldown
- 27. esd-standards: drill down to service
- 28. See links to other controlled lists
- 29. Metrics related to Functions
- 30. esd-standards: “care” related metrics
- 35. esd-standards: links to available tools
- 36. Invoke LG Inform large area reporting
- 37. Invoke LG inform Plus small area report
- 38. Agenda – 1 (the building blocks) • Background / objectives / take-up • The Landing Page • Tools & content available • Information Sharing Standards • Context & performance reporting with drilldown
- 52. Practice break. light small area metrics • Look at the standards pages and small area metric-types • Try downloading the list into a spreadsheet • Choose a metric of interest and look at what tools are available • Create and download a map, chart or table, download it and (if you can) paste it into a MS Word document – REMEMBER TO SIGN IN • Try an LG Inform report and see if you can drilldown – remember to choose a small area metric
- 53. Agenda – 2 (Light touch use) • Small Area Reporting - simple components • Public small area reports • Small area geographies • Creating and using natural neighbourhoods
- 56. Signed in view
- 62. Column Sort
- 67. Signed in view
- 86. single metric makes intensity map collection makes predominance map
- 95. Very narrow & very tall
- 98. Practice break. More complex bars • Practise with any of the features we have covered OR • Produce a sorted bar chart of vertical bars for the top 30 wards in you area plotting obesity in adults against binge drinking in adults • Is there a correlation? Are there any wards that break the trend? • If you can place this component graphic into MS Word
- 99. Agenda – 2 (Light touch use) • Small Area Reporting - simple components • Public small area reports • Small area geographies • Creating and using natural neighbourhoods
- 125. Practice break. Public Reports • Practise with any of the features we have covered OR • Find and view some public reports for your area of interest. • Create a pdf version or a word version (via rtf) • Look at different areas or different wards
- 126. Agenda – 2 (Light touch use) • Small Area Reporting - simple components • Public small area reports • Small area geographies • Creating and using natural neighbourhoods
- 151. Only the author can change it Characteristics of an area type Must be published to be in reports and allow area to be published.. Finalised means it won’t change. Unique resource identifier Parent area type(s) Child area type(s) Links to documents describe the type. Added by anyone Raw data
- 152. Only the author can change it Characteristics of an area Must be published to be in reports. Finalised means it won’t change. Unique resource identifier Precise and best fit child areas selected by type Links to documents describe the area. Added by anyone Raw data “Same as” link to official URI , if any
- 153. Exploring natural neighbourhoods • District of Huntingdonshire broken down by ward • Ward of St Ives East • District of Huntingdonshire broken down by parish • Country of England by Local authority overlaid with Region • NHS Region of South West broken down by CCG overlaid with Local authority • Shared service council of Breckland and South Holland broken down by local authority overlaid with Region • Neighbourhood plan area of Crystal Palace broken down by LSOA overlaid with local authority
- 154. Exploring reports • Local Authority of Huntingdonshire • Ward of St Ives East • Neighbourhood plan area of Crystal Palace • Local Authority of Huntingdonshire broken down by Ward • NHS Region of South West broken down by CCG • Shared services council of Breckland and South Holland broken down by Ward
- 155. Let’s create a natural neighbourhood • Council Area: BLACKPOOL • Subject: Tourist Impact Areas • Logic: All wards or output areas connecting with the beach area
- 156. Adding Points of Interest Amenities Service Incidents • A quick run through 11
- 162. Practice break. Neighbourhoods • Practise with any of the features we have covered by exploring results in either the Natural Neighbourhoods area or the Small Area Reporting Area of the system • If you create trial neighbourhoods that you will not use again, remember to delete them afterwards
- 163. Map – points of interest
- 166. Local Authority User’s View
- 167. Super User’s View
- 170. Service Incidents upload spreadsheet
- 171. Practice break. Neighbourhoods/PoIs • Practise with any of the features we have covered OR • Try creating a natural neighbourhood area using an existing type for your area. OR • Try creating a simple map component and add some points of interest
- 172. Agenda – 3 (Report authoring) • Entering report edit mode • Adding simple components • Adding simple text narratives • Adding fixed text tokens • Adding relative text tokens
- 177. Save Create pdf Create rtf Get permanent link Add text Add table Add bar Add map Add pie Add location map Edit title&c Home page Edit Mode cursor hover
- 178. STOP EDIT RETURNS TO “SAFE” MODE ENTER “EDIT” MODE
- 179. Agenda – 3 (Report authoring) • Entering report edit mode • Adding simple components • Adding simple text narratives • Adding fixed text tokens • Adding relative text tokens
- 189. Lets move legend to the left side
- 192. Practice break. Basic report creation • Practise with any of the features we have covered OR • Start up a new report of your own. • How about adding a bar chart of Life expectancy at birth for males and then for females? • A pie chart of household tenure? • A map of population by ward?
- 193. Agenda – 3 (Report authoring) • Entering report edit mode • Adding simple components • Adding simple text narratives • Adding fixed text tokens • Adding relative text tokens
- 194. A simple text narrative GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION Here is a breakdown of Pendle giving the area, population size and gender split of each Ward. The total area of Pendle District is 16,936 hectares. The Ward with the largest area is Boulsworth, representing 25.88% of all Wards in the District. The most densely populated Ward is Walverden with 55.80 persons per hectare, the least densely populated Ward is Higham and Pendleside with 0.60 persons per hectare. @LGInformPlus http://bit.ly/1FqNaAS
- 195. A simple text narrative GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION Here is a breakdown of Pendle giving the area, population size and gender split of each Ward. The total area of Pendle District is 16,936 hectares. The Ward with the largest area is Boulsworth, representing 25.88% of all Wards in the District. The most densely populated Ward is Walverden with 55.80 persons per hectare, the least densely populated Ward is Higham and Pendleside with 0.60 persons per hectare. @LGInformPlus http://bit.ly/1FqNaAS
- 196. A simple text narrative GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION Here is a breakdown of Pendle giving the area, population size and gender split of each Ward. The total area of Pendle District is 16,936 hectares. The Ward with the largest area is Boulsworth, representing 25.88% of all Wards in the District. The most densely populated Ward is Walverden with 55.80 persons per hectare, the least densely populated Ward is Higham and Pendleside with 0.60 persons per hectare. @LGInformPlus http://bit.ly/1FqNaAS
- 202. Types of text token
- 209. Practice break. Text Tokens • Practise with any of the features we have covered OR • Start up a new report of your own OR • Make a copy of the shared report and try creating text tokens http://bit.ly/1FqNaAS
- 210. Text token Text Token User Guide
- 212. Agenda – 4 (Other tools) • Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface) • Records retention guidance tool • Powers & Duties guidance tool • Open data tools • Conclusions & other questions
- 213. LG Inform / LG Inform Plus The technical environment LA indicator data Centrally gathered indicator data esd-toolkit Intermediate database Indicator (validated original and derived) data Indicator data for validation Other esd and 3rd party licensed data 3rd party app 3rd party app 3rd party app ONS Open data Open Linked Data esd- standards spend projects data.gov.uk legislation.gov.uk Ordnance Survey Web Service methods Ontology Original data Public data used by Inform Data optimised for Inform KHub desktop inform App Inform user settings KHub Upload Dow nload
- 221. api.esd.org.uk
- 231. All LA Types in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
- 233. All MetricTypes
- 234. Agenda – 4 (Other tools) • Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface) • Records retention guidance tool • Powers & Duties guidance tool • Open data tools • Conclusions & other questions
- 235. esd-standards • www.esd.org.uk - standards
- 236. What is the retention guidance? The records retention guidance is information that guides English councils on: •types of records that could be kept to comply with Section 12 of the Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice on the management of records and to meet likely business needs •How long those records might be kept
- 237. Where can you find the guidance? Full guidance at http://retention.esd.org.uk/ or from the LG Inform Plus home page at: www.esd.org.uk Records Retention
- 238. Where can you find the guidance? For a single function or service via esd standards http://standards.esd.org.uk/ • Find the function or service you are interested in • Click on the ‘tools’ option • Choose the ‘records retention tool
- 239. Retention guidance • Looking at guidance online • Downloading guidance to create your own schedule • Guidance as open data • Getting help
- 240. Retention guidance - filter
- 241. Retention guidance - search
- 242. Retention guidance - detail
- 243. Retention guidance - download
- 244. Retention guidance - data
- 245. Retention guidance - help
- 246. Agenda – 4 (Other tools) • Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface) • Records retention guidance tool • Powers & Duties guidance tool • Open data tools • Conclusions & other questions
- 247. What is ‘Powers and duties’? Powers and duties is a list of the things which legislation either: •Requires a local authority to do (duty) •Allows a local authority to do (power) The ‘powers and duties’ list was put together by esd in conjunction with Kent County Council legal services. At present it only refers to primary legislation (Acts of Parliament) and generally not secondary legislation (Statutory Instruments or SIs)
- 248. Where can you find powers and duties? List at: http://id.esd.org.uk/list/powers AndDuties Full guidance at http://retention.esd.org.uk/ or from the LG Inform Plus home page at: www.esd.org.uk Records Retention
- 249. Where can you find powers and duties? For a single function or service via esd standards http://standards.esd.org.uk/ • Find the function or service you are interested in • Click on the ‘tools’ option • Choose the ‘Powers and duties’ tool
- 250. Powers and duties - filter
- 251. Powers and duties - search
- 252. Powers and duties - detail
- 253. Powers and duties - download
- 254. Powers and duties - data
- 255. Powers and duties - help
- 256. Agenda – 4 (Other tools) • Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface) • Records retention guidance tool • Powers & Duties guidance tool • Open data tools • Conclusions & other questions
- 257. Making local data useful • Councils need to be compare with one another • Innovators need to build apps cost-effectively Hence we offer standards for: • what we call things • format of open data @LGInformPlus
- 258. Overview of the infrastructure Functions Services Datasets Incentive scheme Inventory Schemas Aggregator Councils Areas Other... data.gov.uk O D I certificates NationalLocal harvest Neighbour hoods Classifications Data
- 259. Objectives of the infrastructure • Provide useful data – responding to common requests • Keep it as simple as possible for councils • Resolve fragmentation, inconsistency and discovery • Enable data users to accurately interpret data and aggregate it across councils Hampshire Durham Sevenoaks Leeds Craven Westminster Any council
- 260. LG Inform Plus: providing information management services www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus
- 261. 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
- 262. 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 • Procurement classifications National mapping
- 263. Results, benefits, re-use LG Inventories LG Schemas Harvesters & Aggregators countrywide spreadsheets Apps – Great British Toilet Map
- 264. Exploring the role and content of the LGA open data resources Tim Adams Programme Manager (LGA) @DrTimAdams April/May 2016 www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus
- 265. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus LG Inform Plus: open data resources http://opendata.esd.org.uk/
- 288. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus National file of public toilets
- 289. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Aggregation of planning applications
- 299. Agenda – 4 (Other tools) • Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface) • Records retention guidance tool • Powers & Duties guidance tool • Open data tools • Conclusions & other questions
- 300. LG Inform is…….. • ‘The LGA’s free data service which presents you with up-to-date published data about your local area and the performance of your council. • Whether you’re interested in scrutiny, a portfolio area or simply need an overview, LG Inform can help you review and compare performance with other authorities’.
- 301. Key Information – LG Inform • About us: www.local.gov.uk/about-lginform • LG Inform: www.lginform.local.gov.uk • Help and support: – Log-in assistance: lginform@esd.org.uk – Support: lginform@esd.org.uk – General enquiries: LGInform@local.gov.uk • LG Inform Knowledge Hub Group – https://khub.net/group/lginform
- 302. The carousel displays up to date news stories from the LGA
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- This is the landing page for LG Inform: http://lginform.local.gov.uk A brief note about LG Inform can be viewed Public users will be able to search for information about their authority by entering their postcode or authority. A selection here will alter the 6 dials: see next slide The tabs Search and About LG Inform will be discussed later.
- This shows the properties of an area type. All of this is open data that can be viewed on the web or by a computer. An area type should normally not reference a specific area, it should be generic enough to use for many areas.
- This shows the properties of an area. Again all of this is open data that can be added by anyone. The creator of an area is responsible for it with guidance from the Support team. Anyone (not just the creator) can add links from an area to associated documents on the Web.
- Here are links to some examples for pre-existing official areas and for new areas that are official (and published by a government organisation) or unofficial. Hovering over an area on a map shows all the selected areas under the cursor.
- The same selection controls apply to reports as to neighbourhoods. Here are some links to open standard reports for: Specific areas Breakdowns of specific areas by a given area type There are a few differences between what is available for neighbourhoods and for reprots.
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- Records retention guidance and powers & duties guidance are linked to the Local Government Service List (LGSL) and the Internal Service List which are part of esd-standards. The list of powers & duties is published as a standard in it’s own right – freely available. Both records retention guidance and powers & duties guidance can be filtered by function or service. In addition the records retention guidance can be filtered by web site navigation terms as defined in the Local Government Navigation List (LGNL). When you look at any of the lists in esd-standards a spanner icon displayed beside a term tells you that there are tools linked to this term. In most cases that means there is either retention guidance, powers & duties guidance or both. The ‘Tools’ option on the menu takes you to the tools page where you can choose what you want to look at. More details on how to do this are given later in the presentation.
- From the main ‘Records retention’ page you can filter the guidance you see by: Changing the selections in the drop down lists – by function (which is what we can see now as that is where we accessed the tool from), by web navigation, by external service or by internal service. Once you change the first box the options available in the lower boxes change according to your selection – likewise for the third and fourth drop downs once you have chosen from the one above. The fourth box contains services – you can choose from there to just see retention information for a single service. You can also filter the guidance displayed to be just legal requirements or just business requirements – the default is to show both. The list of guidance shows the service the guidance relates to, the type of records the guidance refers to and whether or not the retention requirements are legal (denoted by a gavel) or business (denoted by a briefcase) To see the detailed guidance you need to click on the records description. Note that clicking on the service number or name will take you to the detail of that service. From this page there are also links to download all the guidance contained in the list either: as a csv file – which can be read into a spreadsheet or potentially your own database as an rtf file which you can read into MS Word and format as you need If you have accessed the Records retention tool from the esd-standards pages (function, service or web navigation term) the filter criteria on the top of the page are set to be the term you accessed the tool from.
- If you prefer just to search for guidance related to a topic then rather than going through the lists you can use the ‘search’ option. Simply key your search term (planning was used in the example above) to find guidance where: The search term is in the service name The search term is in the records description
- For each set of guidance you can see the following: Service name Records description Service number (as a link to details of the service) Do the records contain personal information? Impact level if the information contained in the records were to be released Is the retention a legal or business requirement? If a legal requirement a hyperlink to the legislation determining the retention period Should the records be retained permanently? Should the records be offered to archives once the retention period ends? Retention period (if not permanent). The retention period includes the time/event from which you need to keep the records and how long they need to be kept for. For some guidance there are also notes which might, for example, identify the guidance as a minimum period, point to additional legislation or advise that the records must be destroyed at the end of the retention period. On the detail page there is also the URI describing the retention guidance and a link which provides a SPARQL database query which will provide you with an electronic version of the guidance.
- Guidance can be downloaded in either csv format (comma separated value) which can be read by spreadsheet software such as MS Excel or in rtf (rich text file) format which can be opened in word processing software such as MS Word. Options to download in either format are available after you have selected the records you are interested in (by filter, search or via esd-standards).
- You can use the ‘data’ option to run a direct query on the SPARQL database to download data from the retention guidance database. Example queries and guidance on doing this are provided.
- Before you start using the retention guidance we recommend you read the ‘Introduction’ page which tells you about where the guidance came from, how and why you might use it and explains how the guidance is structured. If you have a question when you are using the guidance it may be answered by our FAQs – available on the help page. If not you can either email support (support@esd.org.uk) or you can leave a comment on the page which will be answered by the support team and may also be answered by other users.
- The list of powers and duties is freely available to all from esd standards. The detailed guidance – which includes links to the legislation, types of authority the power/duty applies to and other information is only available to LG Inform Plus subscribers to browse online and download.
- From the main ‘Powers and duties’ page you can filter the guidance you see by: Changing the selections in the drop down lists – by function (which is what we can see now as that is where we accessed the tool from), by external service or by internal service. Once you change the first box the options available in the lower boxes change according to your selection – likewise for the third and fourth drop downs once you have chosen from the one above. The fourth box contains services – you can choose from there to just see powers/dutiesfor a single service. You can also filter the guidance displayed to be: Just powers or just duties– the default is to show both Just English or just Welsh powers and duties – both by default Type of authority which to which the power/duty applies The list of guidance shows the title of the power/duty, whether it is a power or duty and whether or not the power/duty applies to English and/or Welsh authorities. To see the detailed guidance you need to click on the power/duty title. From this page there are also links to download all the guidance contained in the list either: as a csv file – which can be read into a spreadsheet or potentially your own database as an rtf file which you can read into MS Word and format as you need If you have accessed the powers and duties tool from the esd-standards pages (function or service) the filter criteria on the top of the page are set to be the term you accessed the tool from.
- If you prefer just to search for guidance related to a topic then rather than going through the lists you can use the ‘search’ option. Simply key your search term (planning was used in the example above) to find guidance where: The search term is in the service name or description of one of the services to which the power/duty relates The search term is in the powers and duties title
- For each set of guidance you can see the following: Power/duty title Power/duty description Legislation which allows/requires the power/duty – with link to legislation.gov.uk where available Notes on legislation including other relevant acts/SIs The date from which the power/duty applied (and the date from which it was no longer applicable if legislation has changed). None have an end date at present. The risk category of the power/duty (i.e. how important it is) The types of authority to which the power/duty applies Services which are delivered as a result of the power/duty and the functions to which those services belong On the detail page there is also a link which provides a SPARQL database query which will provide you with an electronic version of the power/duty.
- Powers and duties can be downloaded in either csv format (comma separated value) which can be read by spreadsheet software such as MS Excel or in rtf (rich text file) format which can be opened in word processing software such as MS Word. Options to download in either format are available after you have selected the powers/duties you are interested in (by filter, search or via esd-standards).
- You can use the ‘data’ option to run a direct query on the SPARQL database to download data from the powers and duties database. Example queries and guidance on doing this are provided.
- Before you start using the powers and duties guidance we recommend you read the ‘Introduction’ page which tells you about where the guidance came from, how and why you might use it and explains how the guidance is structured. If you have a question when you are using the guidance it may be answered by our FAQs – available on the help page. If not you can either email support (support@esd.org.uk) or you can leave a comment on the page which will be answered by the support team and may also be answered by other users.
- Local government is different from central government when it comes to providing open data in that hundreds of councils provide the same type of data. It helps councils to be able to compare with one another. We want to encourage innovators (eg SMEs, interest groups) to develop applications that make use of the data, but it is not cost-effective for them to do so differently for every council. Hence standard means or offered for referring to elements of data and standard ways of sharing them. Little is mandated but you make it easier for others to consume your data of you use the same references and same formats as other councils.
- At a national level data.gov.uk provides a loosely indexed catalogue of open data sets from public organisations, including local authorities. The Open Data Institute also has a catalogue of datasets that have been self-certified as “open”. Local open datasets tend to be similar across many councils so, in local government, we are striving to have some more structure. This means that: Each council can draw on work of others People can link, compare and combine datasets from many councils Within our Open data site we catalogue by function and service all local datasets that are inventorised in a standard way by councils and ones coming from the local open data incentive scheme. We list the datasets with links to the actual data. We aggregate data from different councils that uses the same tabular format, as defined by its schema. We encourage use of standard classifications, defined by URI sets, so everyone is using the same definitions and we can link across different datasets.
- The Open data User Group has selected datasets that are commonly requested. We’ve tried to make it as simple as possible for councils to provide the dataset BUT there must be sufficient data to be useful to consumers AND it must be possible for developers to aggregate meaningfully across datasets from all councils. So we expect them to be able to produce a single aggregated dataset for each of the three themes. They can then develop applications that make the data useful to citizens.
- The latest additions to the Local Government Inform Plus toolset is a whole host of search tools, inventory management and schemas/datasets harvesting under the “open data” section
- Here’s a summary of the features of each of our open data menu options.
- Standard classifications, in the form of sets of URIs, are important so everyone using the data understands the terms used and these terms have precise meaning. URI sets of particular importance to local authorities are from: DCLG’s Open data Communities ONS, published via statistics.data.gov.uk our esd-standards and natural neighbourhoods (developed by Cheshire East) sites URIs are used to: Classify schemas define the scope of datasets - define teh scope of induividual data items within datasets
- Documents give an overview of the scheme, details of how to apply and full details of how to comply with each schema – including exactly what data is expected in each column of the data and if it is optional or required. There are a lot of columns specified, but many are optional. We just name each column so, where councils do include data, the column name is the same for all councils.
- The latest additions to the Local Government Inform Plus toolset is a whole host of search tools, inventory management and schemas/datasets harvesting under the “open data” section
- The latest additions to the Local Government Inform Plus toolset is a whole host of search tools, inventory management and schemas/datasets harvesting under the “open data” section
- Our definition of the new service…..
- Useful details.
- This is the landing page for LG Inform: http://lginform.local.gov.uk A brief note about LG Inform can be viewed Public users will be able to search for information about their authority by entering their postcode or authority. A selection here will alter the 6 dials: see next slide The tabs Search and About LG Inform will be discussed later.
- The dials are controlled by the LGA and changes depending upon the authority selected. Additional information on the authority is available via the ‘headline report’. By clicking on the blue titles for the dials users will see further information about this metric, their authority and others. There is an ‘information pane’ on the right for showcaseing councils and new information
- By returning to the home page. A search of the database can be performed.
- In the search window type a simple topic area to establish what is available currently.
- Results can be sorted by date or relevancy with up to 25 results per page
- This is what the standard LGA report looks like: Metric description and a data table showing authority values set against other similar authorities.
- A bar chart showing the relative performances of authorities in this group All components in the report can be exported out as individual elements: e.g. a picture or a csv file.
- The information is show as a map.
- A trend chart is available
- The data set is available too.
- The dials are controlled by the LGA and changes depending upon the authority selected. Additional information on the authority is available via the ‘headline report’. By clicking on the blue titles for the dials users will see further information about this metric, their authority and others. There is an ‘information pane’ on the right for showcaseing councils and new information
- The Headline report opens with some background information on the report. By scrolling down a number of themes are revealed with example metrics
- The headline report shows a standard report containing a selection of metrics for the council chosen across some themes.