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Owen Ambur

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Nov 11, 2019, 11:51:35 PM11/11/19

to Farrar, Shea, Sandy West, Karen Kelly, hhi...@googlegroups.com, Alan Perry, Robine, Cathy G, Carlton Dallas, Joe Distelheim, Frank Mangan

Shea, as you know, I believe the directory referenced in our WG's plan should include all area organizations who are willing to publish their "about us" statements on the Web in StratML format.

Student volunteers could be recruited to help, using the form at http://stratml.us/forms/Part1Form.xml. That would be a great learning experience for them as well as a service to the community. It would support the education, workforce, and center of excellence objectives in the comp plan.

Here's an example, for Safe Harbour: http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/part2/HHISHwStyle.xml

Since the information is in machine-readable format, it would be easy for online service providers to index, aggregate, and present it in a directory(ies) on the Web, both for alphabetical browsing as well as more complex, multi-faceted querying. We just need to challenge and give them the (economic/business) opportunity to do so.

The HHISF file includes some relationship links to relevant objectives in the draft comp plan, demonstrating how cross-walks can be documented and hyperlinked across plans of multiple organizations (as virtual partners). Value-added intermediaries (e.g., local news media) can provide services enabling the partnering orgs, town officials and staff, as well as taxpayers and other stakeholders to readily track the performance of public objectives.

Organizations seeking funding from the Town should be required to document how their objectives support a "truly connected" community and periodically report their performance indicators, thereby enabling not merely a directory but also a virtual performance management/reporting system.