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LGTL

This information was last updated on 01/11/2007, and is revision number 1.

Type

Vocabulary

Title

Local Government Types List (LGTL)

Description

List of types of resource, often seen as 'document types'.

Purpose

To categorise and so aid discovery of Public Sector resources across organisational boundaries.

Version

0.01

Current status

Full Version

Location

www.esd.org.uk/standards/lgtl

Scope

Local Government

Custodian

esd-Toolkit Controlled Lists Group

License

Requires clarification.

The original vesion was produced by the LAWS National Project sponsored by the ODPM.

How Implemented

Produce an Application Profile for each of the 'Customer Journeys' of that the organsiation wishes to support, illustrating where LGTL 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 LGTL type and facilitate queries by LGTL type.

Benefits

ยท Better retrieval by use of consistent terminologies to define resource types across organisational boundaries

Take Up

30 public sector and 2 private sector organisations have registered to receive notification of updates of LGTL