Banter 77: 09Jul25 Using the GC Knowledgebase
What the KB is, what it is for, how it works, how to use it, how to improve it
Video Timeline (min:sec):
00:00 - 15:28 Major part of the presentation
15:28 - 42:32 Users have a go + their feedback and questions
42:32 - 44:15 Minor part of the presentation: last slide
44:15 - 50:09 (end) More feedback and Q & A
Presentation:
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Meeting Summary:
Quick recap
The meeting began with technical difficulties and casual conversation about recent events before transitioning to a discussion about the Great Collaboration's knowledge base system and its functionality. Graham presented a new knowledge base structure with improved search capabilities and demonstrated its features, while participants suggested various additions and improvements to the system's content and organization. The group concluded by discussing the launch of a collaborative document and future plans for allowing contributions, including potential integration of feedback systems and upcoming discussions about climate action.
Next steps
Amanda to contact Cotswold National Landscape and Royal Agricultural University to arrange an expert speaker on farm clusters for a future session.
Graham to implement a voting system for pages in the knowledge base.
Graham to add a glossary for common abbreviations to the knowledge base.
Allan to provide a reference for Nature-based Solutions (NBS) abbreviation.
Amanda to signpost Cotswold National Landscape's input on the A417/A419 road planning process for the knowledge base.
Graham to explore implementing a system for users to add non-published content to Git Book for review.
Graham to consider phased rollout of knowledge base access to avoid being overwhelmed with feedback.
Amanda to share the knowledge base link with Gloucestershire Association of Parish and Town Councils.
Graham to add more content to the Agriculture section of the taxonomy.
Graham to implement geographical search functionality with maps for the knowledge base.
Summary
Knowledge Base Platform Overview
Graham explained the purpose and structure of the knowledge base, emphasizing its role in providing efficient access to best practices and data for councils. He highlighted the use of GitBook as the underlying platform due to its up-to-date content, AI-enhanced search engine, and cost-effectiveness. Graham also addressed current limitations, such as duplicate search results, and mentioned ongoing efforts to improve the system. He encouraged participants to contribute feedback and content to enhance the knowledge base.
New Knowledge Base System Overview
Graham presented a new knowledge base system with a reorganized taxonomy and menu structure, which is currently a work in progress. He explained that the system allows users to search through documents, links, and templates, with search results ranked based on title, description, and keywords. Graham demonstrated how to use the search engine effectively and showed various options for viewing and interacting with found documents, including downloading, copying text, and exporting to PDF. He noted that while the taxonomy is organized alphabetically, the spreadsheet version remains unordered, creating a contrast between structured and unstructured approaches.
Knowledge Base System Development
Graham introduced a new knowledge base system and invited participants to explore it, noting that it was still a work in progress. Garry suggested adding sections on waste water, climate literacy, environment, nature offsets, and funding. Stuart highlighted the need for information on regenerative farming and agriculture. Amanda offered to help connect the group with farming clusters and experts for potential sessions. The group discussed the importance of estate management in new housing developments, with Amanda suggesting a session on this topic. Graham mentioned there was already a planning section in the taxonomy, and Amanda agreed to find the best place for the estate management information.
Knowledge Management System Improvements
The group discussed improvements to the knowledge management system, with David explaining that the interface successfully retrieves points from banter sessions and generates summaries based on git book sources. David suggested organizing topics into a proper hierarchy by a librarian and noted the need for relationships between topics and articles, potentially using semantic media wiki. Andrew Maliphant acknowledged his role in the current taxonomy and agreed it could be improved, particularly regarding synonyms.
Improving Knowledge Base Quality
The group discussed the Great Collaboration's knowledge base, with Andrew Clegg seeking examples for writing preservation letters and Graham highlighting the need to refine solutions into best practices for specific locations. Tristram raised concerns about the quality of information in the banter sessions, while Amanda suggested implementing a filtering system similar to NICE's healthcare recommendations. Graham acknowledged these concerns and mentioned plans to introduce voting and review systems to ensure the quality of contributions.
Knowledge Base and Website Updates
The group discussed the structure and functionality of their knowledge base and website, with David explaining that greatcollaboration.uk is the primary site for verified information while the knowledge base serves as a backup for detailed topics. Graham confirmed that geographical search functionality with mapping is already being implemented in partnership with Parish Online, though it's currently limited to one topic. The team also discussed adding a glossary of common abbreviations, with Alan offering to provide reference materials, and Amanda shared information about the Cotswold National Landscape and its connection to the A417 road project.
Collaborative Document Launch Discussion
The meeting focused on the launch and sharing of a collaborative system, with Graham inviting contributions via email and confirming it is currently in read-only mode. Amanda suggested sharing it with Gloucestershire Association of Parish and Town Councils, which Graham supported, though Allan advised a phased approach to avoid overwhelming feedback. The group discussed future plans for allowing contributions, with David suggesting a Git-based approach and Andrew mentioning a potential Hylo forum option, while Graham noted they are exploring various integration options for feedback systems. The conversation ended with an announcement about an upcoming discussion with Climate Emergency UK regarding local government climate action.
Chat:
00:11:08 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Good morning,Leo, I seem to have no sound with you….
00:32:48 Amanda Davis: @Leo Williams you are in twice. this is why the audio loop happening
00:33:38 Leo Williams: Speaker and mic on laptop were not working but phone not ideal for reading slides
00:33:49 Amanda Davis: Reacted to "Speaker and mic on l..." with 👍🏽
00:39:25 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Link to the Great Collaboration Knowledgebase: https://wiki.greatcollaboration.uk/knowledgebase/
00:43:19 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Simply ask Colin Tudge
00:44:48 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Colin Tudge's Great Re-Think
00:48:15 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We're currently researching speakers on biodiversity audits and EV charging points
00:52:42 David newman (Blackbird Leys): A question I forgot to ask. How can we edit gitbook? (asked a a git user).
00:55:04 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I know Mark Gale who was the moving person behind the Gloucester service station - it took him some years but a great result
00:58:58 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Some guidance on plans should be available from local resilience forums Local resilience forums: contact details - GOV.UK
01:02:51 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: The proposed Welcome Break lorry park development in Gloucestershire—specifically near Cirencester—has been under scrutiny due to concerns about its impact on the local landscape and community. Here’s what’s surfaced recently: 🚛 Project Overview
The plan involves a 75-space truck stop near the A417 in Stratton, Gloucestershire
It was rejected by the local council in March 2024 due to concerns over landscape harm and incongruity with the surroundings 01:02:56 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: The website link at present is to flood data Flooding Data - The Great Collaboration 01:05:41 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: Replying to "The proposed Welcome..."
Allan - A bit more on this would be very helpful. Can you letme have your email address or a link where I can find details
01:07:47 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Need a link to greatcollaboration.uk from the knowledgebase home page. (It's there: see under "How Can I get involved")
01:07:50 Amanda Davis: Lorry park appeal input from 2 planners at CNL Cotswolds National Landscape. John Mills is also the planning advisor for the National Association of national landscapes, as well as being our chief planner
01:08:45 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Replying to "Need a link to gre..."
Agreed
Speech-to-text (for Search engine):
131 00:23:20.250 --> 00:23:24.560 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: All right. Well, now, now that Amanda's here, we can get started. So let's do that
132 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:31.779 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: so hopefully. Are you? Now all seeing my screen.
133 00:23:31.780 --> 00:23:32.630 tristram cary: Yep.
134 00:23:32.750 --> 00:23:44.889 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And today we are going to talk about the knowledge base. And I'm going to give you the background as to why we're getting a knowledge base and why we're using gitbook.
135 00:23:45.260 --> 00:23:48.029 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: how the knowledge base is built.
136 00:23:48.170 --> 00:23:53.459 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: how can you can use it? And then, perhaps most importantly, I'd like you all to have a go
137 00:23:53.580 --> 00:24:06.069 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and then give feedback and make future contributions by the score. So this is one of those places where don't let your inhibitions worry you. Just go ahead and plunge in, please.
138 00:24:06.550 --> 00:24:07.600 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So
139 00:24:09.740 --> 00:24:20.509 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Since our aim is to make life much easier and more efficient and quicker for councils and everybody to find the data they need. We're going to put it into a knowledge base.
140 00:24:20.670 --> 00:24:39.570 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And the knowledge base consists mainly of pointing people to the examples we found of best practice. So the chances are that somebody out there has already done what you guys are looking to do, and the chances are that somebody somewhere has refined the
141 00:24:39.800 --> 00:24:58.129 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: the way of getting there. So we're going to try and find best practice and point people towards them. We don't actually load the documents themselves onto the knowledge base, except when it's seen as advantageous to getting the search engine inside the knowledge base
142 00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:59.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: to.
143 00:24:59.350 --> 00:25:02.389 Andrew Maliphant: Read all the documents.
144 00:25:02.820 --> 00:25:13.370 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So. And as we suggested before, we're hoping to get people to where they want to be within 3 clicks, we're not there yet, but I'm sure it's not that far away.
145 00:25:14.070 --> 00:25:33.939 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So we've chosen gigbook as the underlying structure, because it is pretty up to date. It's 1 of those things that's put together by enthusiasts rather than a company, and therefore people all over the world are making their contributions and thereby keeping it very much up to date.
146 00:25:34.300 --> 00:25:38.640 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: It's got AI built into it which really helps the search engine
147 00:25:38.830 --> 00:25:44.839 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: because it's looked after by enthusiasts. There's almost nothing for us to do except enter the data.
148 00:25:45.180 --> 00:25:52.420 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: It's a familiar, familiar interface which I hope you'll all recognize, and possibly its greatest argument
149 00:25:52.540 --> 00:25:53.830 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: is that it's free.
150 00:25:54.110 --> 00:26:08.619 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: which is very helpful to us in our current state of finances. It's not perfect, and certainly getting information into it is not yet as as simple as it could be, but I think there's lots of
151 00:26:08.740 --> 00:26:24.860 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: improvements being made as we go along. As we said, you may find that when you're doing your own searches there's a snag at the moment in git book that it is tending to come up with double entries for everything, so you may see everything twice.
152 00:26:25.100 --> 00:26:28.359 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Fret not. We've put in a request that they fix that.
153 00:26:28.610 --> 00:26:34.439 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And certainly we're not the only people to have come across that. But that's just one of the drawbacks.
154 00:26:35.300 --> 00:26:36.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So
155 00:26:36.840 --> 00:26:46.079 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: because of modern search engines. You could argue. There's absolutely no need to have any structure. You can just throw all the documents into the system and let the search engine sort it out.
156 00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:54.779 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: but that doesn't really help. You find all the related documents that may come up through the menu system.
157 00:26:55.000 --> 00:27:00.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: It doesn't give us any structure that lets us know what we've got and what we haven't got.
158 00:27:00.390 --> 00:27:02.949 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And so we need to have a structure.
159 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:04.200 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And
160 00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:25.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: finally, there are some users out there who have always used a structural system, and therefore they prefer to work that way. So we're hopefully providing systems for both those who like to just throw a search engine in at the job, or those who like to go and look for their stuff through a logical system.
161 00:27:26.995 --> 00:27:39.900 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Infusing you all to the word taxonomy, because we've created a taxonomy which is really our guiding principle for structuring the whole database. So
162 00:27:42.970 --> 00:27:45.330 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: somebody need to mute somebody.
163 00:27:46.260 --> 00:27:49.980 Andrew Maliphant: How did you get.
164 00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:52.379 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: No, I thought it was going to mute everyone.
165 00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:52.909 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: We can do that.
166 00:27:52.910 --> 00:27:54.450 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: What's making a little noise?
167 00:27:56.300 --> 00:27:57.190 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Okay?
168 00:28:02.090 --> 00:28:25.319 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So we have created a spreadsheet which you're going to see in a second, which lists all the topics under which we think people are going to be very interested. It's a work in progress. So when you see it, don't think this is it rigidly built in stone. I'm really hopeful that we'll get suggestions from you guys on what updates are needed.
169 00:28:25.620 --> 00:28:36.909 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: We've built the menu system to match the taxonomy, and you'll see that in a moment. And hopefully they're all tied together to give everybody. On speed.
170 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.193 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So this is the 1st 2 slides.
171 00:28:41.860 --> 00:28:48.829 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: The 1st point that I'd like to make is that this, the spreadsheet itself is not
172 00:28:49.060 --> 00:28:53.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: ordered according to a nice alphabetical system.
173 00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:56.890 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: whereas the menu structure in the
174 00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:11.479 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Wiki knowledge base, whatever you want to call it, has been reorganized. So everything's in alphabetical order. So this is a wonderful example of those who like to live in an ordered system, and those who like to live in a completely disorderly one.
175 00:29:11.690 --> 00:29:17.800 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and you can see that those who created the spreadsheet are disorderly.
176 00:29:18.500 --> 00:29:21.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and those who run the knowledge base are less so.
177 00:29:21.410 --> 00:29:30.599 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So. This is the 1st item pings are grouped into the areas which we think are going to be more useful to people.
178 00:29:30.750 --> 00:29:33.669 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: You'll all find words that will probably
179 00:29:33.930 --> 00:29:38.848 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: be found in other listings for climate change things. So
180 00:29:40.190 --> 00:29:50.439 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: you know, if you're looking for the generation of electricity could be by hydrogen or by wind turbines, they're all under energy, but they're not under separate products of their own.
181 00:29:50.620 --> 00:29:55.879 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So this is page one, page 2 covers these last 3 topics.
182 00:29:56.130 --> 00:30:09.930 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And again, I'm very happy to take people's suggestions that they can be improved. You can look at the latest version of the taxonomy from within the knowledge base when you get there.
183 00:30:10.300 --> 00:30:14.710 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So that's just giving you an idea. What is our guiding light at the moment?
184 00:30:15.500 --> 00:30:25.419 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So here is the knowledge base itself, and you're all gonna be getting your chance to play with this, but I'm just giving you the overall view of how the 1st page will look.
185 00:30:25.650 --> 00:30:31.620 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and on the left is the menu system which you can see is mostly consistent of
186 00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:36.969 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: the taxonomy itself, but now ordered in alphabetical order.
187 00:30:37.110 --> 00:30:52.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Couple of items near the bottom adaptation, mitigation are previous entries into the system which have yet to be brought in line with the rest of the taxonomy. And then that tells you there's a link to the taxonomy spreadsheet itself down the bottom there.
188 00:30:53.180 --> 00:31:03.379 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So the vast majority of the knowledge base are the documents, the links, the templates, the guides, and everything that people are going to contribute, I hope.
189 00:31:03.710 --> 00:31:24.480 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and then down the bottom, under events, you'll be aware that we have a weekly banter session, and have been doing so for the last couple of years. So there's some 70 odd items there that you can will be searched. When you do a search it will go through the events section as well as the taxonomy.
190 00:31:24.620 --> 00:31:38.099 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And so you will find a lot of the stuff that's coming up at the moment is because the the biggest contribution to the database to date has been the events the the Atlanta sessions.
191 00:31:38.350 --> 00:31:42.600 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So you'll note that this is the overall view.
192 00:31:42.600 --> 00:31:43.860 Leo Williams: This is the.
193 00:31:44.340 --> 00:31:46.989 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Send me. Oh, let me just put
194 00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:54.577 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: okay. Just put Leo on mute, because we're getting feedback, but otherwise happy to see you with much bigger picture.
195 00:31:54.930 --> 00:31:56.630 Leo Williams: Gotcha gotcha.
196 00:31:56.630 --> 00:32:00.999 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: There's a lot of echo on you Leo. So we've put you. I've put you on mute.
197 00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:08.929 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: alright moving on. Then this is the overall picture of what it looks like. Note at the top that there is a search engine button
198 00:32:10.850 --> 00:32:22.619 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And now we're going to go through. How you use that. So the fastest way of finding, if we have anything in the knowledge base is through search, and I'm expecting that most people will use this route.
199 00:32:23.176 --> 00:32:29.709 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: As again the most efficient way of doing things, and desperate to get you down to your 3 clicks to find something
200 00:32:30.130 --> 00:32:31.190 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: so
201 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:48.520 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: just click anywhere in the search box to bring it up, and up it comes with a screen of previous searches. If you've made them. If you haven't, then you'll just get the top line, the search content. And you can start typing whatever you want into that
202 00:32:48.770 --> 00:32:50.339 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: top line up here.
203 00:32:54.940 --> 00:32:56.699 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Which is what I'm saying. Here.
204 00:32:57.410 --> 00:33:10.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Note that there are 2 lines. When the system start, come comes up. You get an option to go out onto the Internet. So the green line is searching the Internet. The top line is searching the knowledge base itself.
205 00:33:11.390 --> 00:33:21.009 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And I've typed in the word retrofit. And you can see that the word retrofit has been found, but it comes under energy efficiency, which is sort of what you'd expect
206 00:33:21.850 --> 00:33:22.670 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: of.
207 00:33:23.430 --> 00:33:33.469 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Here is a major caveat. Alright. So when you're typing in the search, word or phrase that you're seeking don't follow it with an enter
208 00:33:33.590 --> 00:33:34.670 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: button.
209 00:33:34.930 --> 00:33:39.070 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Search engine starts working just as soon as you type the 1st letter.
210 00:33:39.260 --> 00:33:55.990 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and when you finished it's busy searching away. If you type, enter, you kill the whole thing. So you do get a symbol. That's sort of the lines on that icon are circulating around as the system is working to let you know that it's not gone dead.
211 00:33:56.380 --> 00:34:02.769 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and then when it finishes that, it comes up with a list very much a la Google.
212 00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:09.239 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and then again, very much a la Google. If you want to read any of the documents just click on the title
213 00:34:10.328 --> 00:34:19.110 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: But to get an idea of which documents you may want to read, there is a short summary underneath the title.
214 00:34:19.370 --> 00:34:26.920 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: please note. This is a scrollable list. You can go all the way down because it may find 20 or more articles under your topic.
215 00:34:29.310 --> 00:34:53.930 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: so the search engine ranks its finds, according to what we've put in the title, the description and the keywords. We're trying to put the keywords into the description in the knowledge base which is the 1st paragraph that you enter after the title. I mean, this is not of interest to you particularly, except in case you're worried about how it finds the documents it's found, and put them in the orders. It's put them
216 00:34:54.370 --> 00:35:02.780 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: so the closer that the words in the title and the description and the keywords match your search type. Item.
217 00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:06.190 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: the closer the document will be hopefully to the one that you want.
218 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:08.010 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So
219 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:19.049 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: the next step onto that, then, is the more detail you put into the search term, the more limited the output will be, but it ought to be much better suited to your wishes.
220 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:26.609 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: However, you will remember that if you put as a very specific term in searching, then, if
221 00:35:26.900 --> 00:35:33.300 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: the system is, use a word that's different from yours, you'll miss it. So there's a nice balance between
222 00:35:33.430 --> 00:35:42.880 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: searching on just one word or one phrase, or one item or one that's very specific. You you're gonna have to work out which works best for you.
223 00:35:43.290 --> 00:35:46.640 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And then again, a reminder just to see what
224 00:35:47.020 --> 00:35:53.500 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: you want to see you click on the title, and it brings up something like the left hand side of this screen.
225 00:35:54.345 --> 00:35:55.060 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So
226 00:35:55.740 --> 00:36:17.490 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: once you've got it here, there are several things that you can do with it, you can, just if there's a video as there is here, for instance, you can click on the start button and it'll start up and roll away. You can download anything from this page, or you can simply cut and paste any words that you find are particularly interesting to your case.
227 00:36:17.700 --> 00:36:31.329 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: or there is an export to a Pdf. Option here which will take the whole article and export it to your computer for you. So you've got those 3 or 4 choices. Once you've found the information that you're seeking.
228 00:36:33.850 --> 00:36:51.829 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: There is, as I said before, those who prefer to go via a menu. That's it works exactly the way you'd expect it to each menu item probably has sub pages underneath, and you just click through the ones you want, and again they will be in the same order as the taxonomy or lists.
229 00:36:52.190 --> 00:36:55.710 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So you can see where you want to go from there
230 00:36:55.930 --> 00:37:18.739 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: at the moment. And because we're just getting started, we haven't bothered putting in a page for a menu item, if we don't have any data for it. So if you find that the taxonomy leads you to believe that you'll be able to search down to 3 levels to get the specific item you want. And the menu system doesn't match that. It's because we don't have any item that goes there
231 00:37:18.950 --> 00:37:26.640 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: so hopefully. This is a time saving to you, and certainly is time saving to us all right.
232 00:37:26.870 --> 00:37:33.750 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: This is the moment I hope that you've all been waiting for that. You get a chance to take a look at the system yourself.
233 00:37:34.110 --> 00:37:38.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: if you would please just remind yourselves that
234 00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:41.309 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: this is not an exercise in showing you
235 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:51.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: how much we've got. It's more an exercise in showing you what is there? Certainly what isn't there, and hoping that we'll get lots of feedback from you
236 00:37:51.500 --> 00:37:54.779 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: on what ought to be there. But isn't
237 00:37:55.190 --> 00:37:59.740 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: what you found out about the system, and whether you can think of ways of improving it.
238 00:37:59.850 --> 00:38:02.919 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Basically, what do you think of the ease of use
239 00:38:03.060 --> 00:38:14.599 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and giving us the opportunity to improve on a constant basis? So there are 2 ways of getting into the knowledge base at the moment you can either follow the link on the screen
240 00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:36.760 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: or you can go to our great collaboration website, and you'll find the link underneath the how can I get involved? Drop down, menu, note the subtlety of the how can I get involved when actually, what you're trying to do is to get the system to work for you. But we're way ahead of you there. So please take a few minutes to go in
241 00:38:36.850 --> 00:38:46.799 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and see what you'd like to do. I'm going to just stop sharing for a moment so I can watch people's faces and see if they're puzzled, horrified, or devastated.
242 00:38:47.010 --> 00:38:51.380 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and then we'll come back together for the next part of today's session.
243 00:38:51.570 --> 00:38:52.500 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Thank you.
244 00:38:56.050 --> 00:38:57.990 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Graham, can you post the link in the chat.
245 00:38:59.230 --> 00:39:03.549 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Can I do talk? Oh, yes, of course I can. Sorry. That's a very good idea. Thank you.
246 00:39:24.420 --> 00:39:25.450 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: There you go.
247 00:39:26.680 --> 00:39:29.672 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I think you stunned them. Gary, yeah.
248 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:35.890 Amanda Davis: I haven't.
249 00:39:35.890 --> 00:39:36.310 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Well.
250 00:39:36.310 --> 00:39:38.420 Amanda Davis: Excited in a long time.
251 00:39:38.420 --> 00:39:50.189 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah. Well, well done, my friend, on all the work that's gone into it, and as everybody can see, a lot of work's gone into it, and a lot of work in progress, and it can only get more and more better with everybody's help.
252 00:39:51.620 --> 00:39:53.170 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Precisely. Thank you.
253 00:39:56.910 --> 00:39:59.639 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Or more betterer, as we used to say in primary school, yeah.
254 00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:15.739 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: By all means, when you're happy with what you've done, then indicate by either raising your hand on the screen or putting a note in the chat, or you're ready to move on. I'm very happy for people to take their time.
255 00:40:27.980 --> 00:40:31.640 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Graham, do you want us to feedback on the
256 00:40:31.910 --> 00:40:36.179 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: menu on the left hand side? The welcome underneath the welcome.
257 00:40:36.180 --> 00:40:40.569 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Absolute. Oh, no! Well, you mean comments on that bit absolutely. Yes, please.
258 00:40:40.940 --> 00:40:43.320 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: There's there's a few things missing. I think.
259 00:40:43.530 --> 00:40:51.000 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes, it's all still a work in progress. I don't confess to any of it having got to the very end. Thanks, Gary, but
260 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:52.130 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: yep.
261 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:59.700 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Yeah. So I think, there are a couple of main things missing in terms of like waste water.
262 00:41:01.402 --> 00:41:08.169 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Potentially. Also, climate literacy, I think, is a big one. Personally, I find that a bigger.
263 00:41:09.270 --> 00:41:15.729 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: a big resource, that I'm always looking, trying to find latest information on so climate literacy would would might be a good
264 00:41:16.150 --> 00:41:27.220 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: also. Maybe environment nature offsets, and another biggie funding might be another good one.
265 00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:28.620 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Brilliant.
266 00:41:28.620 --> 00:41:34.230 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Can get. If you can have us a section on where to go for funding, I think you'll get a lot of
267 00:41:34.790 --> 00:41:36.370 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: interaction with it.
268 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:38.829 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Very, very true, Gary, thank you.
269 00:41:41.190 --> 00:41:46.389 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And hopefully, you've started the ball rolling on, other people coming up with things that they thought of.
270 00:41:50.560 --> 00:41:54.559 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Bye, Stuart Stuart's got his hand up. Graham.
271 00:41:54.560 --> 00:41:56.429 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yep, let's go for Stuart. Please.
272 00:41:57.131 --> 00:42:03.030 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great dunmow TC, Essex: I know I've made these comments before, but one of the
273 00:42:03.350 --> 00:42:12.949 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great dunmow TC, Essex: biggest sources of greenhouse gases is food agriculture, and we don't seem to have anything about
274 00:42:13.110 --> 00:42:20.349 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great dunmow TC, Essex: regenerative farming agriculture in general, the various farm clusters, many of which are
275 00:42:21.536 --> 00:42:28.869 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great dunmow TC, Essex: geared towards environmental protection. I I think we
276 00:42:29.090 --> 00:42:34.699 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great dunmow TC, Essex: need to be leaning more towards encouraging them to participate in this.
277 00:42:35.610 --> 00:42:55.940 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Agreed Stuart. There is actually a section called Agriculture in the taxonomy, but it's probably one of the ones that I've yet to actually put anything into. This is very early days. So I'm hoping that you guys will feel that you're much more contributing to the growth of the thing rather than
278 00:42:57.310 --> 00:42:58.690 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: noting what we're.
279 00:42:58.730 --> 00:43:07.819 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great dunmow TC, Essex: I I was wondering. Is is it worth contacting one of these farming clusters, and seeing if they would like to do a session for us?
280 00:43:08.150 --> 00:43:12.130 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I think that is a great idea. Yes, please. I've written that down.
281 00:43:12.130 --> 00:43:13.210 Amanda Davis: Volunteer.
282 00:43:15.190 --> 00:43:20.539 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Amanda, we're always happy to have you. What are you doing? On the 23rd of July.
283 00:43:20.540 --> 00:43:25.550 Amanda Davis: It's not me. Oh, no! I come with experts.
284 00:43:25.550 --> 00:43:26.000 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: All right.
285 00:43:26.010 --> 00:43:31.639 Amanda Davis: You know me. I'm a generalist. I'm a signpost or a networker. So cotsword, national landscape.
286 00:43:31.930 --> 00:43:55.899 Amanda Davis: not only as a national landscape, where we cover many farm clusters, but we also have the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, and we have many a farm cluster based within Cotswold national landscape and several of our board members are involved with farm clusters, and I wonder whether I could get you an expert instead.
287 00:43:57.620 --> 00:43:59.780 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Don't hesitate, Amanda.
288 00:44:00.160 --> 00:44:10.539 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Go ahead and and start sending out your emails, your phone calls and your Whatsapps, because sound like a great idea, and Stuart would be delighted to get such an instant response, so.
289 00:44:10.540 --> 00:44:13.700 Amanda Davis: What! What sort of dates did you mention?
290 00:44:15.710 --> 00:44:17.939 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Just just going there. Hang on a second.
291 00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:20.769 Amanda Davis: It's just I'm going to hit the ground running.
292 00:44:20.770 --> 00:44:24.089 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes, bear with me one intense moment.
293 00:44:24.640 --> 00:44:27.620 Amanda Davis: My challenge is, can I get you? A. Yes, by this afternoon.
294 00:44:27.620 --> 00:44:28.060 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: All right.
295 00:44:28.390 --> 00:44:28.720 Cllr Stuart Withington, Great dunmow TC, Essex: Well.
296 00:44:28.980 --> 00:44:33.539 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Okay. So I'm looking at the 23rd of July and the 30th July.
297 00:44:34.220 --> 00:44:35.260 Amanda Davis: Yeah, and.
298 00:44:35.820 --> 00:44:41.670 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Any date after the 6th of August, except the 3rd of September.
299 00:44:43.570 --> 00:44:44.890 Amanda Davis: Okay.
300 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:56.569 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So there are something like 30 odd Wednesdays left in the year, so by all means feel free to take on the challenge of filling them all up. Amanda, you're.
301 00:44:56.570 --> 00:45:03.180 Amanda Davis: That's that's perfect, and I have got a couple of suggestions that my hand was up. But I don't know if I'm the next person.
302 00:45:03.180 --> 00:45:06.789 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Go for it, because I'm sure David will give you a space.
303 00:45:07.210 --> 00:45:11.419 Amanda Davis: Thank you very much. I'm busy with the screen, showing
304 00:45:11.560 --> 00:45:28.210 Amanda Davis: you know, the site and not yourselves with your hands up. So, apologies one, that I haven't yet come across, but is a personal favorite of mine, and I'd even be prepared to do a session on this, and that is, when you get new housing developments.
305 00:45:28.410 --> 00:45:33.299 Amanda Davis: estate management, and whether it's adopted or not.
306 00:45:33.640 --> 00:45:49.479 Amanda Davis: and the Biggie, the big council that we think is just right up there on the throne is Stratford District Council, who have a policy of adopt the lotter always, so they won't allow estate management by private enterprise.
307 00:45:50.310 --> 00:45:54.339 Amanda Davis: and that whole thing about how a new.
308 00:45:54.820 --> 00:46:14.339 Amanda Davis: a new housing estate has estates managed. So it comes under the public realm because it's public open space, but it's put out to private management and the problems that can go wrong are huge, and it's the subject to the competition and markets authority. It has its own. All party parliamentary group.
309 00:46:14.340 --> 00:46:32.099 Amanda Davis: There's loads going on to do with this issue of councils, not adopting, and obviously as a result of that, the ability to look at all things, carbon nature, etc. And water, water, management and flood management. It touches all of our.
310 00:46:32.170 --> 00:46:37.920 Amanda Davis: So it's a planning thing, I guess, but it could be in so many others.
311 00:46:38.730 --> 00:46:39.329 Amanda Davis: So it does.
312 00:46:39.330 --> 00:46:39.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Brilliant.
313 00:46:39.680 --> 00:46:44.959 Amanda Davis: Taxonomy nicely, but I'm sure we could find the the preferred place for it.
314 00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:47.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Well, there is a planning session within the sector.
315 00:46:47.050 --> 00:47:01.350 Amanda Davis: Yeah. Yeah. And likewise, you see, Suds is in the public realm section. There's many a sud that's in an unadopted estate that's there to protect the rest of the Parish Council area, and yet is in private ownership.
316 00:47:01.610 --> 00:47:01.950 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I think.
317 00:47:01.950 --> 00:47:14.550 Amanda Davis: Water Act. The recent Water act's got something to say on that, as has Nelk and Slcc. So you know, I can see why this could be quite an interesting topic, maybe to cover.
318 00:47:14.710 --> 00:47:17.414 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Brilliant Amanda. Thank you. I've nearly run out of paper, but
319 00:47:17.996 --> 00:47:33.459 Amanda Davis: Okay. Well, then, the other one was around, and I don't know whether I've missed it yet, and it could be under sort of society, and that is around citizen science and the whole element of in engaging the public and building things bottom.
320 00:47:33.460 --> 00:47:35.830 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yeah, that's a great point. Thank you.
321 00:47:35.830 --> 00:47:54.240 Amanda Davis: Yeah. And in that you could put things like Linda Aspi with her psychology. You know the climate doom and how we manage to avoid that. And then the whole thing about nature recovery strategies from all around the counties. Can we have a place where we can deposit all of them.
322 00:47:55.620 --> 00:47:58.410 Amanda Davis: not deposit them, but add links to them.
323 00:47:58.690 --> 00:48:02.730 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I knew I was right to be delighted that you're coming, Amanda, today. So thank you.
324 00:48:02.730 --> 00:48:03.110 Amanda Davis: You're gonna.
325 00:48:03.110 --> 00:48:03.500 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Let's see.
326 00:48:03.500 --> 00:48:05.209 Amanda Davis: You mean? I talk a lot. Thank you.
327 00:48:05.210 --> 00:48:09.230 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Great suggestions. Yes, thank you, Gray. Move on and give David a chance. Please.
328 00:48:09.230 --> 00:48:09.850 Amanda Davis: Gee!
329 00:48:10.180 --> 00:48:10.970 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Thank you.
330 00:48:13.385 --> 00:48:14.020 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Right.
331 00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:21.439 David newman (Blackbird Leys): First, st I'll talk about the interface, which is actually better than you described
332 00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:35.060 David newman (Blackbird Leys): one I've put in things, and it has been successfully retrieving points from all the banter sessions
333 00:48:35.900 --> 00:48:42.979 David newman (Blackbird Leys): and lots of things people mentioned already. If you actually type them in, you'll find a banter session about it.
334 00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:52.859 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Secondly, if you click on the green arrow, it doesn't search the Internet, it searches this git book.
335 00:48:53.230 --> 00:49:01.419 David newman (Blackbird Leys): What the AI does is write a summary at the top based. And then underneath list sources
336 00:49:01.780 --> 00:49:04.239 David newman (Blackbird Leys): from things we've put in the git book.
337 00:49:05.240 --> 00:49:11.829 David newman (Blackbird Leys): So actually, when you're testing it, I suggest you do a search first, st rather than just look through the taxonomy.
338 00:49:13.710 --> 00:49:17.679 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Okay, next thing, I actually know what a taxonomy is.
339 00:49:18.440 --> 00:49:25.850 David newman (Blackbird Leys): And yes, when we get topics, someone, preferably a librarian.
340 00:49:26.090 --> 00:49:29.639 David newman (Blackbird Leys): should organize them into a proper hierarchy.
341 00:49:30.140 --> 00:49:42.829 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Now, ideally, you also have relationships between topics and articles. But for that you need something like semantic media wiki, which is much more complicated to set up.
342 00:49:43.340 --> 00:49:46.900 David newman (Blackbird Leys): But maybe someone ought to make notes, or
343 00:49:47.750 --> 00:49:51.499 David newman (Blackbird Leys): actually in the article saying, See, also.
344 00:49:51.650 --> 00:49:53.980 David newman (Blackbird Leys): it would be nice if something like that.
345 00:49:54.310 --> 00:49:56.840 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Could be helpful. David. Yep, thank you.
346 00:49:56.840 --> 00:50:03.699 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Yeah, I don't know how much that is built into Kit Book. I haven't actually looked at the instructions for that yet.
347 00:50:05.770 --> 00:50:16.239 David newman (Blackbird Leys): and yes, quite a few things people have mentioned are actually in the taxonomy, but under a different title. So we need something about synonyms.
348 00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:17.560 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yeah.
349 00:50:23.390 --> 00:50:27.269 David newman (Blackbird Leys): And that's it, for now, until I have more chance to look at it.
350 00:50:28.970 --> 00:50:38.570 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Thanks for that, David. As a past school librarian. I can. I must take part of the blame for the current taxonomy, but I'm sure it can be improved.
351 00:50:40.220 --> 00:50:45.229 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Well, I do like the idea of how do you find synonyms? I think that's a very powerful one.
352 00:50:45.700 --> 00:50:52.340 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And because you're right, if you don't use the word that's there, then the system may not find it so. Thank you.
353 00:50:53.290 --> 00:51:00.189 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Right. I'm open to lots of suggestions from anybody else, please.
354 00:51:01.770 --> 00:51:02.650 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: 8.
355 00:51:03.110 --> 00:51:08.769 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: You know what's coming, Andrew. You can't arrive here and not ask any questions. Andrew Clegg from Somerset.
356 00:51:11.460 --> 00:51:13.580 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yeah, you're on. You're on mute, Andrew.
357 00:51:15.860 --> 00:51:22.519 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: I'm a bit late, because I've been dealing with an application from Welcome Break to to build a
358 00:51:22.640 --> 00:51:31.329 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: a hundred lorry car Park right in the middle of one of the finest views in Somerset view
359 00:51:31.650 --> 00:51:42.850 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: the view from the Amhill Stone Iron Age Fort Fort, looking right right towards 40 kilometers down towards the end of
360 00:51:43.040 --> 00:51:45.269 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: the of the river parrot.
361 00:51:45.490 --> 00:51:51.290 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: You can actually see Hinkley Point B power station for us from us. It's 40 kilometers away.
362 00:51:52.230 --> 00:52:08.860 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: and I'm trying to at the moment work out. How do I write the kind of letter I want to write about preserving views or preserving biodiversity or something like that.
363 00:52:08.860 --> 00:52:23.990 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: and I'm sort of looking for examples. I was thinking the Gloucestershire, for example, the the service station that you have at Gloucester. Now, now, what do I need? I actually have to write
364 00:52:24.030 --> 00:52:38.649 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: down to to use some of the ideas that you see at the Gloucester Service station? It's just a question of helping people like me, who you know, and what just there are about half a dozen of us in the parish
365 00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:49.360 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: who have to write these things, and they've got to be at least as good as the professionally written documents that the that the that welcome break has produced.
366 00:52:50.690 --> 00:52:57.250 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Right. That's a wonderful idea, and I'll I'll put all of our horde researchers straight onto it.
367 00:52:58.700 --> 00:53:01.290 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: It's great, Andrew. Thank you.
368 00:53:03.994 --> 00:53:06.210 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Anybody else, Scott. Anything.
369 00:53:06.210 --> 00:53:06.800 tristram cary: Yeah.
370 00:53:07.070 --> 00:53:21.679 tristram cary: Graham. I I need more time to play, but it looks it looks really interesting. But am I right in saying that if you, if you search in the search box, it just refers you to the internal banter sessions. It's not. It's not searching the Internet. Is that right?
371 00:53:21.680 --> 00:53:30.800 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Not searching the Internet. But it's not just the banter sessions, either. We are adding data all the time that isn't conceived during the banter sessions.
372 00:53:31.210 --> 00:53:37.350 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So the Manta Sessions are currently the major part, purely because we've been doing them for longer.
373 00:53:37.640 --> 00:53:39.859 tristram cary: So does that imply that your
374 00:53:40.100 --> 00:53:49.829 tristram cary: it's the idea that the great collaboration is sort of vetting that all the data that's available through, say a chat, gpt search that anybody can do.
375 00:53:49.970 --> 00:53:52.320 tristram cary: And the and it's it's got some.
376 00:53:52.700 --> 00:53:58.679 tristram cary: You've got an idea that what you're searching in the great collaboration is of a higher quality than a general search of the Internet.
377 00:53:58.680 --> 00:54:14.330 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Well, what we're trying to find is examples of best practice. So the git book is a wiki. So rather like Wikipedia. The idea is is that we refine solutions down to the best one suited to the particular
378 00:54:15.390 --> 00:54:26.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: request that you're making. So you know you have best practice for Manchester. Best practice for London, and best practice for Martok in Somerset, which is rather smaller than either of the other 2.
379 00:54:26.790 --> 00:54:46.360 tristram cary: I guess I'm I'm a bit concerned that the Banter sessions are not. I mean, they're they're very interesting, but they're sometimes quite random. And people, you know they they come, you. You get anybody who volunteers can come and talk about what they've been doing. But there's no there's no sort of filter that says, this is high quality information, and we we recommend this as your as your solution.
380 00:54:46.530 --> 00:54:48.600 tristram cary: But I think that could be a bit misleading.
381 00:54:48.960 --> 00:55:05.120 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes and no. The most useful part of the banter sessions, I think, are the links that come up in the chat that people put in, because their experience has shown that they've been triggered by something that was said in the banter session, and so they share their knowledge with us.
382 00:55:05.250 --> 00:55:11.269 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And I've yet to go through all of the Manta Sessions and put all the knowledge that are in the links into the.
383 00:55:11.270 --> 00:55:13.240 tristram cary: Knowledge, base.
384 00:55:13.510 --> 00:55:30.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I think it's a constantly refining situation, Tristram, where? Because it's like a wiki, you know, the the more data that we get in, then more people will say, this is much more clicked on than that one, so we'll get rid of the one that isn't ever watched, and we'll go for the one that is.
385 00:55:30.430 --> 00:55:38.599 tristram cary: I think you need that sort of process because I was thinking, if you're if you're a parish councillor and you wanted to know how to go about writing a resilience plan.
386 00:55:39.200 --> 00:55:44.890 tristram cary: and I I think you might get a better solution if you search the Internet than if you search the banter sessions.
387 00:55:45.520 --> 00:56:03.320 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes, because in theory you're not any longer researching the Banter sessions. It's purely that at the moment the largest contribution to the knowledge base is via the Banter Sessions, but I'm sure that will soon disappear under the welter of information that you're going to start passing to me.
388 00:56:04.310 --> 00:56:04.850 tristram cary: Okay.
389 00:56:04.980 --> 00:56:05.860 tristram cary: Thank you.
390 00:56:06.100 --> 00:56:08.030 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yeah, Amanda, we're back to you.
391 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:16.069 Amanda Davis: Yeah, I'm thinking of. I'm long enough in the tooth to have been around when Nice was set up for the health service.
392 00:56:16.270 --> 00:56:16.640 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes.
393 00:56:16.640 --> 00:56:36.169 Amanda Davis: Institute for? Well, I'm not even going to go there. It used to be called clinical excellence, but it's clinical and health something now, anyway, the point here is that obviously, whatever was in Nice's recommendation went through that filter of expertise and absolute gold standard sort of filters
394 00:56:36.170 --> 00:57:00.129 Amanda Davis: so so that it could be relied upon, and actually the Nhs not fund things unless they met that high standard. So there is that side of it. And then there's the Wiki side of it, and I'm sure each of us, if we're looking at what's in there whilst it's still small enough, we'll pick up things and and kind of act as a filter of
395 00:57:00.410 --> 00:57:05.860 Amanda Davis: common sense, let's say. But I kind of get Tristram's point about the
396 00:57:06.420 --> 00:57:25.769 Amanda Davis: the expertise, you know. Will we get somebody? Will we start to get perhaps people that don't have the same moral compass that we do, starting to put things in because they're climate change deniers or something, and then, of course, that will get picked up, and so it could get corrupted. If we don't have some sort of I don't know
397 00:57:26.530 --> 00:57:32.480 Amanda Davis: great collaboration kind of frontier champions on the checking it out.
398 00:57:32.620 --> 00:57:36.921 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Well, I, there is another slide to go which points out that
399 00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:53.440 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: we need to work out how to get contributions from people. And I think one of the arguments we've come up so far is that the only people contribute who can contribute are those who've become members of great collaboration.
400 00:57:53.640 --> 00:58:04.719 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: which is not that high a barrier at the moment. But I suspect that, you know we'll have to start looking to see who are the climate deniers and the people who just set out to spoil things. I agree with you.
401 00:58:05.183 --> 00:58:19.340 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I've also made a note from what Tristan was saying. We probably need to introduce a system of voting on a page, so that you people can say, Yes, we think this is the better one rather than that one or whatever. But I've made a note to do that.
402 00:58:19.810 --> 00:58:22.459 Amanda Davis: To give them stars, you know, like with reviews.
403 00:58:22.460 --> 00:58:30.629 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yeah, absolutely all of the above. But again, there's lots of ways that somebody can just put over and over stars on their particular contribution.
404 00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:33.700 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: It's a difficult one.
405 00:58:33.700 --> 00:58:36.990 Amanda Davis: I come off now and come back on, so have a go.
406 00:58:37.090 --> 00:58:39.710 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Thank you, David. All yours.
407 00:58:42.178 --> 00:58:43.889 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Yes, there's a difference.
408 00:58:45.070 --> 00:59:01.379 David newman (Blackbird Leys): The knowledge base isn't the 1st place people go. It's actually greatcollaboration.uk, so anything that is verified. And we want to tell the world you get directly on the main site.
409 00:59:01.780 --> 00:59:12.189 David newman (Blackbird Leys): The knowledge base is a backup with more details on particular topics that are too big to just put on the main site.
410 00:59:12.750 --> 00:59:15.779 David newman (Blackbird Leys): so it doesn't have to be the same quality.
411 00:59:16.560 --> 00:59:18.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: That's very interesting.
412 00:59:18.040 --> 00:59:20.990 David newman (Blackbird Leys): And the next thing after that.
413 00:59:21.650 --> 00:59:30.490 David newman (Blackbird Leys): And this is something you just mentioned about the next slide is the question I forgot to ask. How can we edit? Git book.
414 00:59:33.806 --> 00:59:40.220 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes. Well, we'll let me get to that when we get to the next slide. Because I'm just making notes on what you're saying.
415 00:59:41.660 --> 00:59:48.149 David newman (Blackbird Leys): The and also the search on that site
416 00:59:51.280 --> 01:00:00.499 David newman (Blackbird Leys): has typical property of an AI search that majority wins over minorities.
417 01:00:00.500 --> 01:00:01.410 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yeah.
418 01:00:01.940 --> 01:00:05.750 David newman (Blackbird Leys): But of course, if you're really specific, you'll just get one source.
419 01:00:06.370 --> 01:00:07.200 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Correct.
420 01:00:11.070 --> 01:00:12.749 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and I'm busy writing, David.
421 01:00:13.150 --> 01:00:17.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Thank you, Amanda. You're irrepressible.
422 01:00:17.040 --> 01:00:40.080 Amanda Davis: Well, I'll take that as a compliment. So when Tristram put his hand up, I was absolutely certain he was going to ask the question about whether there was a geographical search with a map and so on, because what I'd like to know is, if I was searching on nature recovery strategies. I'd like to instantly be able to search those around me.
423 01:00:41.020 --> 01:01:06.879 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: That's a wonderful point. And yes, it's already been clarified. It's already been agreed with parish online, and we are in the process of putting it into practice. So far we've managed it on one singular topic, which I can't even remember what that one is now. But there is one map on the website which you can go to and do exactly what you're saying, and the intent is to do it for everything.
424 01:01:07.070 --> 01:01:12.220 Amanda Davis: Fantastic the name we are on it on this journey with you.
425 01:01:12.430 --> 01:01:19.829 Amanda Davis: Nobody's expecting it to be perfect. Yet you're just showing us an insight, a vision of where we're heading.
426 01:01:20.250 --> 01:01:20.960 Amanda Davis: The yeah.
427 01:01:21.100 --> 01:01:25.639 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And I love. I love the smile on Tristan's face. You've made him very happy.
428 01:01:25.640 --> 01:01:28.909 Amanda Davis: Yeah, I noticed, too. Thank you.
429 01:01:28.910 --> 01:01:29.760 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Hold on
430 01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:38.039 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: so anybody else please got any feedback from what they've done. Alan Wilson has just come up. Hi, Alan!
431 01:01:38.040 --> 01:01:47.250 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: I. All it was, is in relation to common abbreviations which has been said so the Climate Change Commission, Ccc.
432 01:01:47.500 --> 01:01:51.610 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: And then putting in Mbs, which was the Nature-based solutions.
433 01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:56.619 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: No returns in respect to those, so
434 01:01:57.780 --> 01:02:03.270 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: is there like a glossary that we could actually PIN at the back end.
435 01:02:03.730 --> 01:02:07.870 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: so that people could see those nothing more.
436 01:02:07.870 --> 01:02:11.859 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: That's a great idea, Alan. Thank you. I'm busy writing.
437 01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:14.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: What did you say? Nbs was for?
438 01:02:15.090 --> 01:02:16.670 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: Nature, based solutions.
439 01:02:17.190 --> 01:02:17.970 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Thank you.
440 01:02:20.040 --> 01:02:24.130 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Do you have a reference that you're familiar with, that we could perhaps adopt.
441 01:02:24.670 --> 01:02:28.560 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: Not off the top of my head, but I'll dig one out, that's for sure.
442 01:02:29.170 --> 01:02:30.000 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Thank you.
443 01:02:31.410 --> 01:02:37.219 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: Just done a Co. Pilot search for Andrew in respect of his
444 01:02:37.714 --> 01:02:44.829 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: I can paste it into the response that came through. This is in relation to the 4, 1, 9.
445 01:02:47.550 --> 01:02:48.810 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Okay, thank you.
446 01:02:51.930 --> 01:03:01.070 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: this has all been very helpful and very rich in information and feedback. Thank you. I'm really grateful. Let me just share my! Oh, Amanda, I knew there'd be always one.
447 01:03:01.370 --> 01:03:05.270 Amanda Davis: Oh, I I it was Alan who said, 4, 1, 9. He does.
448 01:03:05.612 --> 01:03:06.980 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: 4, 1, 7, yeah.
449 01:03:06.980 --> 01:03:33.869 Amanda Davis: 4, 1, 7, 4, 1, 9. It's both. You're both. You're correct on both cotsword, national landscape. We had a massive input, into that road and its nature impact. And we've got so many supplementary documents about it that could be helpful. So maybe I could just simply signpost to cotsword national landscape. And looking at the input, we put into the inquiry that created the road. The planning process.
450 01:03:33.870 --> 01:03:34.829 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: That's where I go.
451 01:03:34.830 --> 01:03:39.159 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Wonderful. Thank you, Leo. All yours. You're muted at the moment.
452 01:03:39.680 --> 01:03:49.620 Leo Williams: Thank you very much indeed. I need to leave in about 4 min time, but I just wanted to share with you that my learning style leads very strongly towards pragmatist activists.
453 01:03:49.750 --> 01:04:13.159 Leo Williams: so I can't wait to finish what I've got to do for the rest of the day and have a real good play on this, and I'll then be in a better position to give you some meaningful feedback. But this is my 1st visit to this group, and it was very exciting to hear the different, the different types of intelligence, and the different types of of offerings that this group of people are bringing very exciting. Thank you very much.
454 01:04:13.160 --> 01:04:16.249 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: It's very rich, very rewarding, isn't it? I agree.
455 01:04:16.250 --> 01:04:17.110 Amanda Davis: Absolutely
456 01:04:17.110 --> 01:04:24.760 Amanda Davis: before Leo disappears. Can I do a quick introduction that, Leo? Leo? Do you mind me outing you on this section.
457 01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:26.740 Leo Williams: You go ahead, please do so.
458 01:04:26.740 --> 01:04:33.140 Amanda Davis: Thank you. Leo is working with me. I check Gloucestershire's local government branch of unison.
459 01:04:33.420 --> 01:04:38.410 Amanda Davis: and next year 2026 is the year of green unison.
460 01:04:38.840 --> 01:04:49.339 Amanda Davis: and Leo is working with me on on the whole thing about green unison and the Gloucestershire area in particular, from a parish and town Council perspective.
461 01:04:49.740 --> 01:04:50.380 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: July.
462 01:04:50.708 --> 01:04:53.989 Amanda Davis: That's I wanted to get that even before he disappears.
463 01:04:54.325 --> 01:04:54.569 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So.
464 01:04:54.570 --> 01:04:57.140 Leo Williams: No, no pressure, Amanda at all.
465 01:04:58.115 --> 01:05:04.620 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Well done. Thank you. And what? Yes, let me just go and share my screen and finish this off.
466 01:05:04.680 --> 01:05:06.890 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: The Lord loveth a volunteer. Yes.
467 01:05:06.890 --> 01:05:07.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes.
468 01:05:08.384 --> 01:05:12.730 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: As one of my bosses used to say constantly.
469 01:05:12.730 --> 01:05:15.511 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I'm on the wrong screen, aren't I? It's go there.
470 01:05:24.710 --> 01:05:30.060 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Think I'm on the wrong screen. Still, let's try that one.
471 01:05:31.810 --> 01:05:36.269 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Let's try that one. Let's try that one. So now are we on the have a go yourself, screen.
472 01:05:36.270 --> 01:05:37.360 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Indeed.
473 01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:39.779 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Good. Let me go down to the next one.
474 01:05:40.750 --> 01:05:44.090 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Oh, we're not in the slideshow mode. Hang on a second.
475 01:05:44.090 --> 01:05:45.369 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Thanks for the call.
476 01:05:46.530 --> 01:05:50.080 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: You're in the wrong view.
477 01:05:50.080 --> 01:05:52.200 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I know, I know.
478 01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:55.440 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Transfer across to the other side.
479 01:05:59.620 --> 01:06:04.119 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: I think you just pressed the wrong button on the share screen mode.
480 01:06:04.120 --> 01:06:11.180 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Oh, there we go! I well, I mean, I'm on twin screens, and I've got the wrong page up on the other screen. Let's change that
481 01:06:40.740 --> 01:06:44.520 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: rather than fight it, I'm going to live with it.
482 01:06:48.920 --> 01:06:50.779 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Let's go, for
483 01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:01.880 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: don't just go with this one for the moment, if I can.
484 01:07:02.570 --> 01:07:03.440 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Between.
485 01:07:20.980 --> 01:07:22.899 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: You need to go back one, I think, Graham.
486 01:07:23.640 --> 01:07:25.419 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yeah, bear with me a second if I.
487 01:07:25.420 --> 01:07:27.300 tristram cary: We can see what you've got.
488 01:07:27.470 --> 01:07:27.830 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah.
489 01:07:28.520 --> 01:07:29.300 tristram cary: It's fun!
490 01:07:29.740 --> 01:07:32.839 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I've been trying not to say the dark side, but I've now failed. Of course.
491 01:07:34.260 --> 01:07:35.270 tristram cary: What?
492 01:07:35.528 --> 01:07:37.600 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: What's not? Oh, there's the next slide. Let's
493 01:07:38.490 --> 01:07:44.380 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: all right. So on the right hand side, all I am saying is that
494 01:07:46.240 --> 01:07:55.109 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: please do send contributions to my email address, which is there, and thank you so very much for all your help. And input this morning it's been very exciting.
495 01:07:55.370 --> 01:08:02.369 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and I'm looking forward to implementing all those changes that you've suggested in the next couple of hours.
496 01:08:03.270 --> 01:08:10.060 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: So if no one else has got anything that they wish to contribute. There's always one.
497 01:08:10.250 --> 01:08:10.770 Amanda Davis: Yeah.
498 01:08:10.770 --> 01:08:21.340 Amanda Davis: it's always me. I'm just. I don't want to get too excited too quickly. So it's kind of we we like. I'd say to the guide dogs.
499 01:08:22.160 --> 01:08:24.459 Amanda Davis: Is this shareable yet?
500 01:08:24.779 --> 01:08:28.139 Amanda Davis: Or do you have to be a member to be able to access it.
501 01:08:28.819 --> 01:08:50.229 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: It's very much shareable. It is published to anyone who happens to have the link. So by all means let people know. At the moment somebody asked the question of how we're going to add contributions themselves. That facility is not yet made up because IA, haven't worked out how to do it, or B how to get the quality control in place.
502 01:08:50.479 --> 01:08:53.959 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: But so it'll be read only for everybody.
503 01:08:54.089 --> 01:08:59.979 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: But yes, you're welcome to share it. The more people that hear about it and give us feedback hopefully, the better.
504 01:09:00.229 --> 01:09:03.479 Amanda Davis: So Gloucestershire Association of Parish and town councils?
505 01:09:05.149 --> 01:09:07.369 Amanda Davis: Is it too soon to be sharing
506 01:09:07.509 --> 01:09:12.269 Amanda Davis: with all parish and town councils? In your opinion, do you want to wait for a lunch?
507 01:09:13.750 --> 01:09:27.189 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: I don't think so frankly. I'm open to opinion from other members of the great collaboration, but I'm sort of of the opinion at the moment that the more feedback I get at the beginning, the easier it's going to become.
508 01:09:28.180 --> 01:09:29.470 Amanda Davis: Fantastic. Thank you.
509 01:09:29.470 --> 01:09:32.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Give it a try, and if it doesn't work, Amanda, we'll just blame you.
510 01:09:32.430 --> 01:09:33.549 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: Wear the kosher
511 01:09:36.710 --> 01:09:37.990 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yes, Alan.
512 01:09:37.990 --> 01:09:45.359 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: You could get snowed. What I would actually do is do a couple of weeks? Phased, okay, no.
513 01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:52.509 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Let's just see what Amanda does, and then, if it becomes too much, I'll know, and the rest of you can taste gum for the moment.
514 01:09:52.510 --> 01:09:56.780 Amanda Davis: But I think what Graham just said there was that it's in view only mode.
515 01:09:57.090 --> 01:10:02.900 Amanda Davis: so we'll get a lot of joiners, but we won't get a lot of information fed down the pipe yet.
516 01:10:02.900 --> 01:10:09.460 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Well, we may. Yes, if they follow the request to send me the email. Then we will get overwhelmed with.
517 01:10:09.580 --> 01:10:11.010 Amanda Davis: I'm with you. Okay.
518 01:10:11.010 --> 01:10:13.189 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: But we'll see all right, David.
519 01:10:14.660 --> 01:10:24.910 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Yes, the if git book works like git, you should be able to add things
520 01:10:25.220 --> 01:10:30.060 David newman (Blackbird Leys): that are in a separate branch and not published on the main pages.
521 01:10:30.686 --> 01:10:33.190 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: That is correct. Yes.
522 01:10:33.290 --> 01:10:38.179 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Oh, I see. You're suggesting we open that up to everybody to put their contributions in.
523 01:10:38.330 --> 01:10:42.129 David newman (Blackbird Leys): If you 1st of all find the best way of doing that, and then
524 01:10:42.390 --> 01:10:44.909 David newman (Blackbird Leys): where give us instructions on how to do that?
525 01:10:44.910 --> 01:10:47.549 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: That's a nice thought, David. Thank you. Yeah.
526 01:10:48.350 --> 01:10:52.240 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've got a high, low forum is one option, isn't it, Graham? Yeah.
527 01:10:52.800 --> 01:10:59.770 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: True, it's still working on what is the most
528 01:11:00.290 --> 01:11:18.970 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: feasible and practical solution for getting people involved, so that we do have a link through Hilo, which is a sort of communication system which allows people to be grouped together and for comments to be shared rather like Facebook, but within a specific conversational group.
529 01:11:19.190 --> 01:11:36.469 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: But you can share the screen. You can show people what you're talking about. You can get lots of feedback, and we're trying to sort of eventually work out what is the best way of linking all these systems into one integrated whole. But again, it's an aspiration rather than an actuation so far.
530 01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:47.170 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: But thanks, David. I've made a note of your suggestion because you're quite right. There is a facility to put non-published stuff into the git book.
531 01:11:48.290 --> 01:11:50.269 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and I'll try that.
532 01:11:51.340 --> 01:11:51.910 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah.
533 01:11:52.110 --> 01:11:53.160 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Sounds good.
534 01:11:54.570 --> 01:11:58.919 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah. Then, any climate denying stuff can be simply cancelled out
535 01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:03.750 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: exactly. Yeah. So that might save a lot of trouble. Yeah, many thanks.
536 01:12:04.200 --> 01:12:06.370 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: And there will be some.
537 01:12:06.370 --> 01:12:12.540 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes, Amanda, fancy you're raising your hand.
538 01:12:12.700 --> 01:12:15.529 Amanda Davis: Well, I just wanted to comment on your label.
539 01:12:15.820 --> 01:12:18.919 Amanda Davis: Great collaboration overseas Department.
540 01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:23.250 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Oh, yes, absolutely well. I'm a long, long way from the North Island.
541 01:12:24.390 --> 01:12:30.300 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Well, there we are. I didn't want the whole session to go without noting it. So congratulations
542 01:12:30.300 --> 01:12:45.469 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: you very much to everybody for your contribution. It's very helpful. I filled all the bits of paper I've got available, and I look forward to putting them into practice. And do please keep the comments coming. Don't take today as the end of it. Take today as the start of it.
543 01:12:45.830 --> 01:12:55.089 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yes, well done, Graham, and behind the scenes Jenny's on the call as well. She's been adding her shoulder to the wheel as well. So great stuff.
544 01:12:55.590 --> 01:13:00.080 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Yes, now we've got a just a tip for next week.
545 01:13:00.310 --> 01:13:17.320 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: We're going to have climate emergency Uk, talking to us about local government climate action, and I think that will be very, very interesting of how you can get involved with what your local governments are trying to do at the divisional level
546 01:13:17.440 --> 01:13:33.279 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: and climate emergency. Uk are obviously very familiar and expert with this. So I recommend that to everybody, and hope that you all have a wonderful time enjoying the sunshine and lack of wind, says he, as a sailor is most appealing.
547 01:13:33.460 --> 01:13:35.379 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration overseas dept: Take care all. Thank you for your time.
548 01:13:35.380 --> 01:13:36.250 tristram cary: Thank you. I'm all done.
549 01:13:36.250 --> 01:13:37.369 tristram cary: Thank you. Very good.
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Presentation Summary
Great Collaboration Banter sessions
Great Collaboration Banter sessions
The GC Knowledgebase
Wednesday 09Jul25
By
Graham Stoddart-Stones
Agenda
Agenda
Background Context
Gitbook
Structure of the Knowledgebase (Taxonomy)
How to use – search, or menus
Have a go
Feedback
Future contributions
Context
Context
The aim of the Great Collaboration is to make it easier and more efficient for councils, communities and individuals to find the information that they need for their environmental and climate change goals
Rather than reinvent the wheel, we prefer to find “Best Practice” examples on the Internet, and point users to them
We use a Knowledgebase to help users find these pointers, hopefully within ‘three clicks’
Gitbook
Gitbook
We use Gitbook as the underlying structure of the Knowledgebase, because:
It is modern, using the latest technology
It has AI built-in (very good for Searching)
Very low maintenance
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