Information Asset Registers Jo Ellis 12 September 2008.

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Information Asset Registers Jo Ellis 12 September 2008

Background OPSI is responsible for the UK Government’s information re- use policy. It is part of The National Archives, the information specialist department within government. The UK Government is keen to unlock the benefits of public sector information (PSI) re-use, opening up its data for both economic and social gain. The availability of public sector information is essential to supporting the type of cumulative innovation required in a knowledge economy.

The Power of Information Public sector information is a major factor driving innovation on the web. The Power of Information Review published in 2007 makes a powerful case for government engaging with online communities and releasing more of its data. Ministers are engaged and a new taskforce is taking the agenda forwards. Increasingly, the most useful services are those which combine data from different sources, mixing public, private and user created content. The web is underpinning this whole process.

Provide and Enable A government website is not always the most effective place to provide information to the end user. It is better that the information is where the users are, which means its re-use by others on the web. This means government treating the web as:  a place to provide public services (government to citizen, government to business)  a platform for data, on which others can build services

Overcoming barriers to re-use: IARs Government departments and agencies create information assets as part of their public task. These information assets, typically created for internal administrative purposes, have often not been developed with onward re-use in mind. An Information Asset Register is a structured metadata catalogue of the key information assets that a public sector organisation holds. The primary purpose of an IAR is for resource discovery – identifying resources that may be available for re-use. They are an important tool for facilitating re-use.

IARs are not new IARs were first introduced in the UK in 1999, to help the information industry and others know what information assets the government has. The quality and scope of IARs has varies across the public sector. OPSI recently re-developed the technology that underpins the current IAR system, opening up far more possibilities for the input of information into the system.

Selling the benefits of IARs The most compelling case that can be made for IARs is in terms of benefit to public sector information holders themselves. A recent Cabinet Office Data Handling Review published in June 2008 requires that departments identify information asset owners, as part of a strategic approach to managing information risk. IARs can be used not just to facilitate re-use, but as a risk management tool.

IARs and metadata Not all information assets are the same. Across the public sector there is enormous variation in types of PSIH and in the nature of the information assets they produce. The descriptions of information assets will be different, using different elements (author, format, coverage etc.), depending on what the information is and how it can be re-used. To have traction, IARs need to work primarily for departments internally requirements, as part of managing information risk. Requirements are likely to differ between different public sector organisations.

Metadata standardisation Mandatory standardised metadata can lead some public sector organisations to add information simply because it is part of the standard not because they can usefully or meaningfully populate a given element. Bad metadata is worse then no metadata! At a European level, rather than formally standardise metadata elements in IARs, there should be a common approach for surfacing IARs to the web.

Web enabling IARs From a re-use perspective the emphasis needs to be, not on the elements that make up an IAR, but on ensuring IARs are published to the web in an interoperable way. One way of doing this is using a language called RDFa. This makes it possible to turn a set of web pages for humans, like IAR records, into data for computers (an API). An XHTML template for an IAR record could be produced fairly easily, showing how an IAR record should be marked- up using RDFa.

Benefits There are a number of benefits to using RDFa for IARs:  IARs become more re-usable themselves!  Existing web based IARs can be ‘tweaked’ to support RDFa, without creating separate web services so interoperability can be achieved at relatively little cost.  Existing ontology/vocabularies such as Dublin Core can be re-used, but public sector information holders are not entirely constrained.  Additional elements can easily be added, by ontology created at European, national or local level.  Everything is interoperable through the use of RDF.

Conclusions Departments, agencies and other public sector organisations are most likely to invest in creating and maintaining an IAR as part of their information risk management. Standardising metadata elements for IARs from the re-use perspective alone could be counter-productive, as IARs need to meet internal business requirements first and foremost. From a re-use perspective the emphasis needs to be, less on the elements that make up an IAR, but on ensuring IARs are published to the web in an interoperable way. One good approach for doing this is using RDFa inside IAR web pages.