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UK Parliament�Euro IA 2017

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Anya Somerville

Head of Indexing and Data Management, UK Parliament

Michael Smethurst

Data Architect

UK Parliament

Silver Oliver

Information Architect

Data Language

Introductions

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What you will learn

What Parliament is
What problems we are trying to solve
How we are going about it
What the outcome has been to date

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What is Government?

Is accountable to Parliament
Proposes new laws to UK Parliament
Runs public departments

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What is Parliament?

Holds Government to account
Allows input from citizens
Debates issues to influence decision making

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What is Parliament?

Picture of two different standing order books

A fat one

A thin one

On top of the rules, there is precedent, or “custom and practice” - by which we mean that things are permissible because they've been permitted in the past

Much of parliamentary procedure has developed through continued use over the centuries, and aren’t written in the Standing Orders.

This is Erskine May. Parliament’s Bible. Erskine May was the Clerk of the House of Commons between 1871 and 1886. This book, in its 24th edition now, is considered the authoritative source on parliamentary procedure. It provides details of ‘observed rules' within the House, whether they relate to Standing Orders (and are therefore regulated by the House), traditional practice or whether they derive from 'Speaker's Rulings'.

Meaning we have a fuzzy and non persistent rule set: events test the rules, new processes and new rules emerge, the organisation adapts

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What is Parliament?

Picture of two different standing order books

A fat one

A thin one

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The challenge

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Don’t put your organisational structure on the web

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Don’t put your organisational structure on the web

Because it will not answer peoples questions

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Data reflects organisational structure

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Data reflects organisational structure

Votes but not what is voted on

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Website for each office or project

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Website for each office or project

Over 50 different domains

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How we are trying

to solve it

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Domain-driven design

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What is domain modelling?

A creative collaboration
Drawing back at each other
Talking about things in a natural context

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Why Domain-driven design?

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Organisations are messy

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Cynefin

Simple

Complicated

Complex

Chaos

Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge

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Cynefin

Best

Practice

Good

Practice

Emergent

Practice

Novel

Practice

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Cynefin

Calendar

Standing

Orders

Precedent

Snap

Election

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If you don't address the messiness you build it into your system

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Inquiry

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Committee

Inquiry

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Committee

Inquiry

Committee

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Committee

Inquiry

Committee

Inquiry

Committee

Inquiry

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Cynefin

Simple

Complicated

Complex

Chaos

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What experts know and what they think they know aren’t necessarily the same thing. When asked about things they think they know, they may genuinely give you an incorrect answer. Put in another way: people will always give a description of their current level of understanding of the problem domain. Experience and good faith aren’t enough to guarantee adherence to reality of this description.

Alberto Brandolini�

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WHAT

Bridge person

2-3 SME’s

Finding people

Environment

Culture

How wide to go?

How deep to go?

Probe familiar patterns

Cardinality

WHO

HOW

Anecdote

Pens

Whiteboard

Social graph

Domain modelling

Trial and error

Conversation

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IMPOSSIBLE:

Very HARD:

HARD:

Quite HARD:

Quite EASY:

EASY:

Fairly EASY:

Business applications�providing data

Data�model

Changing workflows/�job descriptions

Union negotiations

Data authoring

tools

Website

THE EVENT HORIZON

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How to do it

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Facilitating not

directing (from a script)

Congruence – without hiding behind a professional or personal facade.
Unconditional positive regard – demonstrating a willingness to attentively listen without interruption, judgement or giving advice.
Empathy – desire to understand and appreciate their participants perspective.

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Parliament domain modelling

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https://github.com/ukparliament/domain-models

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https://beta.parliament.uk/houses/KL2k1BGP/members/current/a-z/a

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https://beta.parliament.uk/people/7TX8ySd4

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https://beta.parliament.uk/constituencies/x45XdVJD

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