1. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting 2 / 8 Mary Rowlatt, Strategic Information Manager January 17th 2003 E-government ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL DIP meeting ABC

2. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting Essex County Council Large local authority in UK Covers 1,300 square miles in S E England Delivers services (together with 12 District Councils and other agencies) to 1.3m citizens e-Government is a key issue (Government targets for 2005 and standards) Relevant projects:

3. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting seamlessUK NOF (lottery) funded 8 other local authorities + 15 key national information providers + 45 local organisations one stop citizen’s gateway to integrated local and national information –health, education, employment, rights, benefits, local government etc www.seamless-uk.info

4. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting seamlessUK2 Distributed, multiple sources - single search produces integrated ‘hit list’ Standards based: –SOAP, XML query, Z39.50, Harvest –seamlessUK application profile based on e-GMS (DC) Tools for participating organisations: –seamless.dot (metatagging tool) linked to: –thesuarus –‘geocoder’

5. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting Thesaurus Cross domain and designed for the public ISO standard, synonyms, browse, query rewriting Mapping - GCL, APLAWS, partner vocabularies Integrating into our content management system –Essex CC + partner organisations & Essex Online portal Piloting it’s use to improve commercial semantic metadata/semi-automatic tagging tools

6. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting ePSINet www.epsinet.org e-Content Programme - 15 countries (+CEE?) –help create the conditions for effective implementation of the EC Directive on reuse and exploitation of PSI –portal - standards, management, regulation, performance –Europe wide network - individuals, companies, public sector organisations, associations (EU + international) –database, email list, faq, online enquiries

7. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting PULMAN www.pulmanweb.org EC funded Network of Excellence - 37 countries Public libraries & cultural heritage institutions Guidelines (social, management, technical) Standards - key issue

8. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting Relevant experience Developing & implementing terminology tools & standards to support interoperability in real world situation with multiple partners from different sectors Thesaurus development, use and mapping Technical & management issues involved in creating and maintaining distributed (peer to peer) information systems

9. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting Relevant experience2 Co-ordinating & managing large multi-partner projects (national and EU) Good access to partners (technical, local administrations, publishers, content providers, libraries, museums, archives across Europe and beyond) Good access to effective dissemination channels

10. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting e-Government/e-Europe agendas Joined up services Services available electronically More transactional services (not just information) Customer focussed services –what sort of person am I (businessman, child, elderly person) –where I am geographically

11. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting What we would like to achieve Pull together - existing work on –distributed (peer to peer) systems (multiple suppliers) –improved semantic interoperability –easier on the information/service providers costs of good metadata v. high –delivery via web services (including personalisation, authentication, payment etc)

12. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting Focus on delivery of public services at local level Create citizen’s (community information) ontology support interoperability, joint working, system integration Support development of web service applications for e-delivery –machine interoperable –use apparent –(Essex Online Portal) Huge benefits if new (& developing) public service terminologies are guided by a sound conceptual framework

13. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting Potential roles Ontology development Application, testing, implementation (with partners) Dissemination Existing partners: –BT Syntegra (IT and IS for ECC) –MDR Partners (dissemination, partners, project management) –Thesaurus consultant (Belgium) & System Simulation (terminology stuff) –Gauss (content management) –etc etc

14. 17th January 2003Essex County Council DIP meeting Contact details: Mary Rowlatt Strategic Information Manager Essex County Council PO Box 11, County Hall Chelmsford Essex, CM1 1LX tel: +44 (0)1245 436524 email: maryr@essexcc.gov.uk www.essexcc.gov.uk