<commit_before>Open Local Information Directory
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This is the readme for the _The Open Local Information Directory_ (OLID) project. OLID is a platform for any organisation wishing to collate, manage and share civic information and then publish/share/search that information in a spatially enabled way. Examples of such collections might include Citizens Information Datatabases managed by local library authorities, Childcare provision registers maintained by Family Service Units and Databases of Clubs and Events maintained by civic marketing departments.

Our goal is to provide a best-of-breed information delivery portal which is free to use in local government and the third sector. The platform combines administrative functions with local search portal and APIs as well as publishing data streams to third party applications. Support for inclusion in local and hyperlocal systems is of high importance as well as the "Big Player" search engines and local portals. 

The platform itself is Open Source, and freely downloadable and usable. It is maintained by the Sheffield Open Data group (An activity under the Better With Data Society banner). Sheffield Open Data consists of a number of industry professionals and is supported and attended by representatives from local universities (Sheffield Hallam, and UoS) and the local authority (Sheffield City Council) as well as the wider community in and around south yorkshire. The system is not intended to be geographically constrained however, and should be portable globally.

The driving principle behind TLI is that information collated and maintained by public bodies should be freely available to the public whos taxes pay for that service to reuse and innovate with openly.

The system itself is split into two major components - 

1) An administrative application which suports federated authentication of multiple authorities and/or departments. The system could be used to create a national database, and delegate the management of regional collections to local staff. Within these authorities, seperate hierarchical structures can be set up. The primary goal is to create a network-effect of public information maintainers whereby the workload of keeping information up to date is shared fairly amongst information owners and maintainers. Loaded records are cross-referenced with controlled vocabularies like the UK IPSV/GCL

The administrative system exposes an open data interface which publishes the maintained records as linked open data.

An agent consumes the open data feed and uses this data to populate (The system "eats it's own dogfood"):

2) An end user information portal which allows the public a faceted search the collections using keyword and spatal search.


--

It's a bit like "Ask a library" but for maintaining directories of civic and citizens information.

Future Developments

* More granular control of information publishing

* Development of a national federated identity service which can underpin an evolving culture of information stewardship in public services.

# Some screenshots


## Welcome page - Administrative system

![OLID - Welcome Page](https://raw.github.com/ianibo/tli/dev/images/admin/olid-welcome.png)

## Register

In the default configuration any user can register, but will be unable to edit any records until an organisational affiliation is approved. New users
can, however, suggest creation of an authority (And subsequently a collection)

![OLID - Welcome Page](https://raw.github.com/ianibo/tli/dev/images/admin/olid-welcome.png)
<commit_msg>Add register page<commit_after>Open Local Information Directory
================================

This is the readme for the _The Open Local Information Directory_ (OLID) project. OLID is a platform for any organisation wishing to collate, manage and share civic information and then publish/share/search that information in a spatially enabled way. Examples of such collections might include Citizens Information Datatabases managed by local library authorities, Childcare provision registers maintained by Family Service Units and Databases of Clubs and Events maintained by civic marketing departments.

Our goal is to provide a best-of-breed information delivery portal which is free to use in local government and the third sector. The platform combines administrative functions with local search portal and APIs as well as publishing data streams to third party applications. Support for inclusion in local and hyperlocal systems is of high importance as well as the "Big Player" search engines and local portals. 

The platform itself is Open Source, and freely downloadable and usable. It is maintained by the Sheffield Open Data group (An activity under the Better With Data Society banner). Sheffield Open Data consists of a number of industry professionals and is supported and attended by representatives from local universities (Sheffield Hallam, and UoS) and the local authority (Sheffield City Council) as well as the wider community in and around south yorkshire. The system is not intended to be geographically constrained however, and should be portable globally.

The driving principle behind TLI is that information collated and maintained by public bodies should be freely available to the public whos taxes pay for that service to reuse and innovate with openly.

The system itself is split into two major components - 

1) An administrative application which suports federated authentication of multiple authorities and/or departments. The system could be used to create a national database, and delegate the management of regional collections to local staff. Within these authorities, seperate hierarchical structures can be set up. The primary goal is to create a network-effect of public information maintainers whereby the workload of keeping information up to date is shared fairly amongst information owners and maintainers. Loaded records are cross-referenced with controlled vocabularies like the UK IPSV/GCL

The administrative system exposes an open data interface which publishes the maintained records as linked open data.

An agent consumes the open data feed and uses this data to populate (The system "eats it's own dogfood"):

2) An end user information portal which allows the public a faceted search the collections using keyword and spatal search.


--

It's a bit like "Ask a library" but for maintaining directories of civic and citizens information.

Future Developments

* More granular control of information publishing

* Development of a national federated identity service which can underpin an evolving culture of information stewardship in public services.

# Some screenshots


## Welcome page - Administrative system

![OLID - Welcome Page](https://raw.github.com/ianibo/tli/dev/images/admin/olid-welcome.png)

## Register

In the default configuration any user can register, but will be unable to edit any records until an organisational affiliation is approved. New users
can, however, suggest creation of an authority (And subsequently a collection)

![OLID - Welcome Page](https://raw.github.com/ianibo/tli/dev/images/admin/olid-register.png)

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