LGIL-Interaction List

The Local Government Interaction List (LGIL) is a list defining the type of interaction (publish information, make a payment, etc) supported by a resource. At its highest level LGIL corresponds with the interaction types used by the Best Value Performance Indicator (BVPI) 157 in measuring local authority e-enablement of services. Some interactions are further broken down to more accurately reflect detailed interactions. It is anticipated that the list will be further refined to support quite specific electronic interactions conducted through middleware using these standards. LGIL is provided as a 'scheme' for populating the e-GMS 'subject.interaction' element/refinement proposed by LAWs.

XSD and RDFS schemas are subject to modification following definition of standards by the e-Government Unit Metadata Technical Working Group and the W3C taxonomy group. In the event of changes, we shall endeavour to support the formats given as legacy formats.

This list is used 70,269 times (reduced to 13,312 times after removal of near duplicate pages) by 20 public sector Web sites - see here for a list of Web sites. View organisations registered as users of this list. See interactive viewer 'Term Usage Count' for details.

LGIL version 1.00 was released on 1 September 2005:

LGIL version 1.01 has a submissions deadline of 2 January 2009 and has a planned release date of 2 February 2009.

This XML file is the official version. The file is still considered to be a draft because there is extensive discussion in the local government community about that and LAWs is eager to accommodate a wide ranger of requirements. It is likely that the format of lgil.xml will not be subject to much further revision.

The XML file can also be viewed in these human readable formats:

Click here for a diagrammatic representation of the XML resources making up LGIL. Associated schemas and XSLT resources are also given, with hyperlinks to each.

Click here for an interactive tree of LGIL.

Please post questions and comments on the LAWs Information Architecture and Standards Forum of the esd-toolkit at www.esd-toolkit.org.

If you are unable to use the esd-toolkit, comments can be sent by e-mail to standards@esd-toolkit.org.

If you create your own XSLT for the List, please send it to us so it can be made available to others via this site.

LGIL is made available for use, without guarantees and without licensing costs, by local authorities, community organisations and any other bodies referencing local and community resources. Neither the LAWs Project nor any other party will be liable for any losses due to errors or omissions in the List or associated resources.

The content of LGIL and all associated resources on this Web site be reproduced free of charge in any format or media without requiring specific permission. This is subject to the material not being used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. The source of the material must be acknowledged as the LAWs Project and esd-toolkit and the title all document must be included when being reproduced as part of other publications or services.