Council
The UK Location Council
The UK Location Council is made up of representatives from the departments and agencies which are significant users and suppliers of location information in the UK – whether at local, devolved or central government level. Miles Parker is the Chair of the Council.
A paper on the overall governance of the UK Location Council and its associated groups can be found at the following location UKLC Governance Arrangements
Next Meeting
The Council is held quarterly. It’s next meeting is on Friday 2nd September.
Members
The Location Council comprises board level and other senior representatives of the departments and agencies in local, devolved and central government that are significantly involved as either users and/or suppliers of location information across the UK.
The Location Information Interoperability Board (LIIB)
The Location Council is supported by the Location Information Interoperability Board (LIIB). This group is responsible for UKLII policy and standards. Membership is drawn from across the public and private sector, representing individual information domains and standards bodies:
| INFORMATION DOMAIN | STANDARDS BODIES |
| Environment | BSI/AGI |
| Research Councils | Digital National Framework (DNF) |
| Global Observation | OPSI/W3C |
| Northern Ireland | OPENGIS/Research+European |
| Scotland | CTO Council/LEGSB |
| Wales | |
| NMAs | |
| Marine | |
| Land and Property | |
| Local Government | |
| Statistics | |
| Utilities | |
| Transport | |
| Emergency Services | |
| JISC – University |
The UK Location User Group
The Location User Group represents the voice of the user community and in doing so widens the stakeholder representation and involvement in UK Location . The group is the focal point for feedback to the Location Council from the user community on the requirements and progress in implementing the UK Location Strategy and the INSPIRE Directive. This group supports the communications activities of the UK Location Programme and ensures that all stakeholder communities are informed about the plan and benefits of implementing it. The group ensures users have access to best practice, tools and capacity building initiatives to apply to their organisations. The UK Location User Group meets quarterly.
Supporting Working/Sub-groups
These governance bodies will additionally create separate working groups or sub-groups tasked with ownership for a specific project or function. These groups will have their own meeting schedule, may have their own Terms of Reference and will report back to their parent body.
Examples include:
Within the LIIB there are the Metadata, Data Publishing and Linked Data Working Groups.