Local Digital Programme

Local Waste Service Standards Project

Frontend Workshop#LocalDigital@LDgovUK

Data models Taxonomies

APIs Data formats

Existingsoftwaresystems

What others?

Smart CitiesConcept Model

Data models

APIs

Status update

• Added generic API elements:

• Feature and FeatureType

• Added Site derived from Place

• Re-implemented as simplest possible adaptation layer

• Left out some aspects related to materials, items,

contact info

Outstanding issues

• Capturing why collections have moved for

unusual reasons

• Handling sites that are not basic properties or

streets

API design

• REST - Representational State Transfer

• architecture of the Web

API design

Programmable Web

API design: data

• JSON - JavaScript Object Notation

• JSON-LD - JSON for Linked Data

• Is XML required?

Linked Data

Definingservices

services: - id: 1 name: Refuse esd_url: http://id.esd.org.uk/service/524 feature_types: - name: Black 240L description: - id: 2 name: Recycling esd_url: http://id.esd.org.uk/service/1130 feature_types: - name: Green 240L description: - id: 3 name: Garden waste esd_url: http://id.esd.org.uk/service/530 feature_types: - name: Brown 240L description: - id: 4 name: Glass collection esd_url: http://id.esd.org.uk/service/1130 feature_types: - name: Black Box 55L description:

Demo API

• Subset of documented API

• Authorisation is disabled for now

• Connected to Bartec Collective test database

for Luton

http://waste-demo-api.herokuapp.com

Designing the front-end

Place

BS7666Address

Site

WasteService

Missed collection events

FeatureType Feature

WasteContainerType

WasteContainer

Different ways to describe services:

- Date first

- Materials first

• Can front-end implementations be shared?

• What are the implications of different council

policies?

• How to manage content displayed to users?

• What technologies are used?

Issues

Sorry we didn't empty your bins – they were contaminated with food waste, so could not be collected.

Contaminated: Food waste

CONTAMINATED: FOOD [BROWN]

Citizen

CSR

In-cab

http://communitiesuk.github.io/waste-service-standards/

http://waste-demo-api.herokuapp.com

Questions?#LocalDigital@LDgovUK

@pmackay