This was the subject of our show and tell on 7th February. Aligning our physical ontology to the conceptual one is now complete. You can see the work in progress here. We had to do this because the model that we started using for our development of the data service got out of sync with Michael’s modelling work, and so we ended up with two slightly different ontologies. These two now match, so now work can start on modifying our data accordingly.

Modifying our orchestration to match the physical ontology is also complete, so our instance data now conforms to the domain model. 

New Data Platform

Samu and Aidan have been working hard on security accreditation. Aidan met with colleagues in the Infrastructure Programme to discuss next steps for the Data and Search platform’s hosting and infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. They also met with colleagues in Cyber Security to discuss the accreditation process and what is still required from Data and Search. Aidan has been working to procure some expert consultancy to work with the team on making our environments secure.

Search

Jamie, Dan, Samu, Robert and Dia had a good meeting where the technical approach and solution for a first step to improve search on parliament.uk was agreed. Dia, Henry and Stephen met to discuss the user research findings for search. Aidan engaged with suppliers to procure third party services that will be used to develop the new search service for Parliament

Corporate Management Information Dashboards

Dan has made some good progress on this work, drawing together a new team to scope and deliver it. Matias and Samu have started researching and experimenting with Microsoft’s PowerBI tools. In the last two weeks as part of prototyping they were able to install an on-premises data gateway, configure a local database as a data-source, author a report based on this data and share a dashboard that features it. Dia has a first draft spreadsheet of our understanding of demand.  Mat and Laura made progress on security accreditation. Mat worked with users to develop a minimum data set for the first dashboard the team have been tasked with, which is due on 16 March.

Product Roadmap

Dia shared the first draft of the product roadmap. It’s a work in progress document  but is taking shape

Support

The team resolved two difficult issues with systems that they support but didn’t build in the past two weeks.

After developing and implementing a fix, work is ongoing to re-process a build-up of Hansard material that was causing broken links to contributions on our internal search.

An issue with search on our intranet was also resolved, where a variety of pages weren’t appearing in the results. This was challenging to work through because documentation was poor, but in the end it was successful. Kunal, Mike, Samu and Wojciech got through these issues with support from colleagues Joe and Sarah.