Metadata – Part II
There were a few questions from the previous post on the metadata we’re planning on using for the Web Guide, so we thought we’d break it down a little and go into the various decisions we made along the way. Read more
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Data about data – metadata
In the last post, I spoke about the way we are developing the information architecture to ensure that content is easily discoverable, relevant and able to be sliced and diced a number of ways.
But these aren’t the only issues regarding content on the site. In reviewing the focus group information and brainstorming ourselves, we came up with content questions such as:
- I need to drive this policy forward internally. What’s the basis of the compliance rating?
- Is this content still relevant?
- Who do I go to for help on this topic?
- That IA structure we came up with: how are we going to implement it when we don’t have a sophisticated Content Management System (CMS)?
Coming to our aid is, of course, metadata.
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Content Strategy Development: Aligning an IA with our Site’s (and our Content’s) Purpose
Content on the Web Publishing Guide is designed to assist Australian Government agencies to:
- Identify their legal and policy obligations
- Meet their legal and policy obligations
- Establish, manage and decommission their website(s)
- Apply web-based technologies to achieve their business goals
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Content Strategy Development: Content Audit
Or, as we’ve dubbed it internally, “eating our own dogfood“.
The existing Web Publishing Guide and the associated Better Practice Checklists have plenty of guidance regarding Maintenance, Managing Online Content and Implementing a Content Management System.
Even though we’re not implementing a new CMS (at least not initially), the following activities described in our own guidance have proved to be enormously useful at this stage in the project: Read more
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