Case Study - Bedfordshire Local Information System (BLIS)
The Bedfordshire Local Information System (BLIS) was set up in April 2008 by the
Corporate Policy Group of Bedfordshire County Council to enable partners to realise
their vision of a 'single strategic assessment for Bedfordshire and its neighbourhoods'.
The site is used to publish and share quality-assured community intelligence about
Bedfordshire and is currently the focal point for the team's work on the county's JSNA.
As well as publishing documents and signposting other key resources via bookmarks,
BLIS currently makes a small number of
datasets
available to be explored through charts and maps.
Longer term, it is hoped that more datasets will be published through BLIS and that
Community Profiling functionality will also be provided. This will enable BLIS to
"tell the story" of Bedfordshire neighbourhoods by presenting a "blended view" of
neighbourhood news, contact information, key documents, statistics and media galleries, etc.
The site uses Hyperspheric's off-the-shelf knowledge management, collaboration and networking
platform, Fountain, to:
- Publish and share content with partners and the public using "wizards" to
collect descriptive metadata such as titles, descriptions, IPSV tags and informal keywords.
- Help users find content through the use of "collections" and descriptive metadata, e.g.
the JSNA Home Page.
- Help users understand content by providing context and guidance via editorial pages
created with the built-in CMS, e.g. the
Using the JSNA and
JSNA Q&A.
- Allow users to explore datasets to see statistics for an area in context.
- Restrict access to sensitive content to specific users and groups.
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