OpenPSI The web of UK government linked data and reuse within the Research Community

Towards a web of UK government linked data Significant commitment by UK Government to make data more available and accessible

http://data.hmg.gov.uk UK experimenting with a web of government linked data

Public Sector Information holders Research community Mashup and linked data community

Technical and non-technical Small activities Technical and non-technical Public Sector Information holders Research community Manipulate data to Semantic Web form Engage people in subject areas, eg. Social Sciences, help define their research challenges create a services to address the research challenges Mashup and linked data community

Three high level objectives OpenPSI Three high level objectives 1) A national scale exemplar of a ‘linked data’ research challenge grounded in the research policy question of “understanding the effect of positive activities and opportunities within the locality of UK schools” 2) Understand how the provision of UK government ‘linked data’ will effect the methods and best practice in research use of administrative data in combination with survey data 3) Sustain community collaboration OpenPSI portal http://www.openpsi.org/

1) National scale exemplar of a ‘linked data’ research challenge Research policy question of “understanding the effect of positive activities and opportunities within the locality of UK schools” Base data includes Indices of Multiple Deprivation for each locality http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Info.do?page=aboutneighbourhood/indicesofdeprivation/indices-of-deprivation.htm

http://sw.joanneum.at/scovo/schema.html

1) National scale exemplar of a ‘linked data’ research challenge Effect of positive activities and opportunities within the locality of UK schools” Need to harvest additional data about each school, do they offer after School clubs, links to the local community, etc.

And any positive activities and opportunities within the locality of UK schools”

2) Understand how ‘linked data’ will effect the methods and best practice in research use of administrative data in combination with survey data

3) Sustain community collaboration OpenPSI portal http://www. openpsi