Controlled Vocabularies--United Kingdom
Federated Search Learn About seamlessUK
"SeamlessUK is developing a one-stop citizen's gateway which integrates local and national information on health, education, employment, rights, benefits, government etc. It is funded under the NOF (New Opportunities Fund) Digitisation Programme in the UK. The project is led by Essex County Council and involves a further 8 local authorities and 14 key national information providers working together to develop a national citizens' gateway and 9 locally branded portals, one in each local authority area. It is hoped that the system will be taken up across the UK." We've learned today that three taxonomies (Government Category List, Local Government Category List and seamlessUK) have agreed to merge. From an announcement, "The e-Government Metadata Standard sets out the way in which organisations should apply metadata to describe their information resources. One element relates to the subject of the resource and until now organisations have been able to use any of the three term lists as source files for subject terms, which has led to confusion and difficulties in finding information. Now however the list owners have agreed to work together to create a single unified list of categories and keywords that the public sector can use to describe their information resources. This standardisation should result in information resources being described more consistently across organisations, which should in turn make it easier for organisations to share information and for user searches to be more effective. The work, which is funded by the new Local e-Government Standards Body, will be carried out by an independent taxonomy expert Stella Dextre Clarke and is expected to be completed by the Spring. Until then, the ODPM have stressed that organisations should continue to use any of the lists. Involvement of existing users of the three lists will be a key part of the process and more details of the consultation process will be issued shortly."
See Also: Learn More Via Several Presentations from the seamlessUK Conference and this collection of presentations.
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