1. The Knowledge Hub (Linked Data in Local Government) International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO UK) Stephen Dale Director Semantix (UK) Ltd Associate Consultant LG Improvement & Development

2. 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

3. The Knowledge Hub Knowledge Bite 6 April 2010 What problem are we trying to solve?

4. http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/lod-datasets_2009-03-05_colored.png Social and professional networks proliferate

5. Where do I find the information I need to do my job? Partnerships and places library

6. Which communities and networks do I need to join?

7. Conversations are getting more granular and increasingly dissagregated

9. Data, data everywhere…. 257 CLG data sets, others with local impact, for sure more to come Regional data observatories and LIS Stoodley Pike - Dec 09 by Richard Sunderland on Flickr All kinds of locally held data

10. ✘ But almost no connectivity ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Machine Human

11. Data hidden behind apps or not in linked format http://www.pat.communities.gov.uk/pat/ Audit Commission National Indicator Set

12. Enough about the problems ….what’s the solution?

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14. Knowledge Hub (Conceptual) Communities of Practice Mashup Centre App Store Data Integration & Aggregation API Semantic mark-up & Search Personalisation (Digital Footprint) Personalisation (Digital Footprint) Websites, Blogs, Twitter Forms-based data entry for benchmark comparisons Dataset1 Public Datasets Plug-ins/ Widgets Apps, widgets, bookmarklets

15. 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

16. Open Architecture, Open Source..open, open, open… Third Party Integrations 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"

17. Agile Development Process

18. To summarise, it’s….

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

24. Thank you and Questions stephendale steve.dale@semantix.co.uk steve.dale@gmail.com http://twitter.com/stephendale http://steve-dale.net