Type
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Vocabulary |
Title
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Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV) |
Description
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Hierarchical list of subjects relevant to the Public Sector. |
Purpose
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To categorise and so aid discovery of Public Sector resources across organisational boundaries. |
Version
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2 |
Current status
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Full Version |
Location
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www.esd.org.uk/standards/ipsv |
Custodian
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IPSV board |
Development
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The esd-toolkit provides a public forum to receive and debate comments and proposals for alterations.
Implementation support is provided via the forum by Porism on behalf of the esd-toolkit, and various practioners and taxonomists.
The IPSV Editorial Board reviews comments and agrees a next version.
CLG commision the compilation of new versions via the esd-toolkit, currently through their technical partners, Porism.
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License
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Crown copyright.
Reuse encouraged - available for download without licence or payment.
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Conforms
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How Implemented
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Produce an Application Profile for each of the 'Customer Journeys' of that the organsiation wishes to support, illustrating where IPSV is to be used, along with other vocabularies, and the mappings that enable information resources to be joined up as a result.
Tag each seperate peice of information with the appropriate IPSV term(s) and facilitate queries by translation from/to IPSV terms.
The IPSV term to use can be determined from …
… a mapping to IPSV from other classificatations.
… auto-tagging tools.
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Benefits
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Better search results in that
… Only relevant resources are found, and therefor a shorter results list
… Results can be found from many organisations irrespective of local variations of vocabulary. e.g. Blue Badge, Disabled Parking Permit, Orange Badge
... Improved choice and options offered to a customer seeking a solution to their needs and circumstances from across the Public Sector.
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Take Up
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For purely Web Site usage ...
213 Public Sector Web Sites, containing 980,000 pages reference IPSV in their Metadata
144 Public Sector orgganisations are register with the esd-toolkit forum + 5 private sector organisations.
See
http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/ipsv/viewer/siteslist.aspx
http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/ipsv/viewer/UserUsageList.aspx
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