Category Archives: aliss engine
Taking ALISS’ temperature
Derek just poured the current ALISS data set into Open Heat Map and out popped a lovely picture of our current coverage. Those colourful spots show where we’ve got details of local services and resources. Clearly there are lots of gaps … Continue reading
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“When ALISS met IRISS”
Back in the summer, Peter worked with Lisa Pattoni from The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS), Snook and others in Kirkintilloch to help mental health service users to map their local ‘assets’ – the things that help them to … Continue reading
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Mapping Edinburgh’s Self Management Resources
We’ve all got good information about our local community – organisations, people, places and events. How can we capture this information and map these local assets? Our next event will look at how we can map the health and wellbeing resources … Continue reading
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Putting Kirkintilloch on the map
“Yes, yes, it’s all very interesting…but, um, what is it that ALISS actually does?” “well, you know, all those things going on locally that can help us to stay well, ALISS will help to make them more findable on the … Continue reading
Everyone’s talking about Assets
There’s quite a lot of policy discussion currently focusing on the ‘assets approach’ and the potential of empowering individuals and communities in Scotland. For example, an ‘Assets Alliance’ held an inaugural session in Glasgow in December 2010; the LTCAS Annual … Continue reading
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A technical workshop on community curation of ALISS resources
One of the things that has had us thinking hard is the question of how communities of interest would ‘curate’ (i.e. sort and make sense of) the information on resources that was posted to the Engine by helpful members of … Continue reading
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Joining the dots
Back in the days when there was no web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a memo about the possibilities of using hypertext links to name pieces of information that could be linked together on the internet. He saw that there was great … Continue reading
Everything’s in ‘moderation’
Search is perhaps one of the most magical-seeming things about using the web – the power at your fingertips (no wand required), the speed of response (faster than a speeding bullet, surely?), the amazing diversity of information that you can … Continue reading
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ALISS and Linked Data
Andy is away down in London, presenting to the Online Information Conference 2010. He’s been part of a ‘linked data’ session. This is nearly as geekish as ALISS is likely to get (not sure whether he’ll have mentioned ‘semantic web’ … Continue reading
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Collaborative Development of the ALISS Engine
toot-toot! We are all really pleased to be able (finally!) to note that further work on the ALISS Engine has started. We have a lot to do, to create a workable kit of parts, before the close of the financial … Continue reading
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