Quick update on the Hampshire Hub for the Local Government Association's 'Making Transparency Work' event on 6th June.

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Hampshire Hub
the story so far…
Mark Braggins
The Hampshire Hub Partnership
Update for the LGA 6th
June 2014

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What is Hampshire Hub?
• 20+ partners (and growing)
• Help inform decision-making
• Accessible & open by default
• Informing Hampshire (and beyond)
• The world doesn’t stop at the
county line
• Store, present and link local with national (and other local) data
• Support anyone providing and using local services
• Sharing an evidence base thereby reducing duplication
• Resource for voluntary, public, private sectors & local communities

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Background
• July 2012 - Business Case approved
• Autumn 2012 - ‘Thinking aloud’ web site
• Dec 2012 – Around 20 partners sign MoU
• Early 2013 - “Protohub” prototype Hub
• April 2013 – Partnership Board formed
• Mid-2013 ‘Interim’ Hub
• 2014 – ‘Strategic’ Hampshire Hub

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Approach
• Thinking aloud - show our working
• Design with openness and versatility in mind
• Supporting different types of content
• NO personal data
• Be prepared to respond to changing needs
• It’ll never really be finished

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The Hub (right now)
‘Interim’ - just a WordPress
site
●News
●Articles
●Blogging
●Some data
●Search partner sites
●A few web maps
●Informally experimenting
using various social networks

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Recent projects

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Engagement

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Hacking = Good
● BlueLightCamp in May 2014 helping
tackle issues around emergency
services and reilience
● LocalGovMakers Friday 20th
June
Birmingham
● October 2014 “Innovation and
Entrepreneurship”, hosted by IBM at
Hursley Park (tbc)
● March 2015 “Aspirations” hosted by
Isle of Wight Council (tbc)

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Local open data
Glasgow
Leeds
Lambeth
Bristol
Devon
Manchester
Cambridgeshire
We’re Not the only show in town. Here’s just a few we’re talking with…
The LGA
DCLGLeGSB
Surrey
Data.gov.uk
Environment AgencyOrdnance Survey

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Next Steps (some)
● Developing Hampshire’s Data Store
● Open (linked) data wherever possible / practical
● Themed data e.g. alcohol
● Standards/ importance of metadata
● Planning register
• Public-facing register for all Hampshire & IoW planning
authorities
• Open and Linked format.
• Designed to be scalable and transferable
• Planning important for economic growth
• Support from LEPs (EM3)
• Contributes to existing markets, Glenigans (Construction Market
Analysis) and Landmark (Land Searches)
• Evidence of demand - OpenlyLocal

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National Parks
Unitaries
Districts
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Linked Data
‘Conversion Tool’
RDF Store
Hampshire Hub
Web Front End
Hub Partner Input
(Existing Planning Registers)
DSB Funding Project
Scalable and Transferrable
Links to additional
Data. (spotting patterns not
previously recognised)
Standards and
Formats (LeGSB)
API

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Planning - Work to date
• Analysis of local planning registers, standards created – thank you LeGSB!
• National reference datasets – thank you DCLG!
• Technical mapping, transformation and datastore – thank you Swirrl!
• Contribution of data from authorities outside of Hampshire – thank you Mole
Valley/Surrey Heath!
• Tender for data visualisation closes 20 June

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● Crowd-sourced data
● The Internet of Things
● Remote sensors
● Wearables
● Secure data sharing
● ‘Smart’
● …cities
● …counties …
neighbourhoods
The future?