Hi all - earlier this year, we launched a wiki to get input from
government agencies into our standards development process. (I've
included the press release below.) We'd be happy to have anyone
interested use the site or better yet, register and post. Any and all
feedback very welcome.
www.webstandards.govt.nz
The Web Standards team have launched their standards wiki, and invite
you to visit, login and post.
The wiki is a collaborative space for anyone interested in New Zealand
government web standards (and web standards in general) to comment, add
good use examples, link to new trends and resources, and generally share
their advice, questions, bouquets and brickbats.
The site, a one-year pilot, has three major aims: to make using
standards easier, to educate on why they are the future of the web, and
to harness the expertise of the New Zealand and international standards
community in shaping how and why we make websites.
Input from wiki users will be integrated into the standards evaluation
process, with the web standard unit's advisory group taking into account
wiki-generated submissions in all major decisions. In the spirit of
e-participation, they will regularly let wiki users see how their
suggestions have been used in the finished products.
Those users new to standards - who often suspect bureaucracy at work -
can read the rationale behind each. Practical examples show that
implementation doesn't have to be difficult, and that the "good graphic
design vs web standards" debate is more of a myth than ever.
The pilot is also about spreading the word that standards are more a
matter of site quality rather than site compliance. It's a message not
just for web professionals, but for their comms and management
colleagues as well. The wiki ties in with the team's belief that the
standards approach, in order to be applied at the start of projects,
needs a wider audience than hands-on developers. Because of this, the
wiki carries advice on building business cases and how to make sure
vendors add compliance into the core of web projects.
This level of rolling online consultation is still fairly new in New
Zealand government. These are the exciting and fairly uncharted waters
of web-based public consultation, and the standards team are keen to
share their experiences with interested agencies and units.
The site is built on the mediawiki engine and moderated by a team of
experienced web professionals, mainly from the public sector. While the
wiki is open to everyone to read, only registered users can post.
Accounts are easily set up via the site.
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Anthony Hawkins
Business Analyst
State Services Commission
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of James Pickering
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2008 11:43 a.m.
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] RE: Sitemap and accessibility
There are actually two types or "flavors" of Site Maps. The first is the
type that is loaded up to your Web server and that is used by Search
Engines to spider your pages thereby playing a significant
role in Page rankings. These Site Maps are constructed and formatted
according to strict protocols. The Site Map protocol specified by
Google:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575&;
hl=en is the classic model.
The second type of Site Map is the one that you load onto your Home page
and that plays such a prominent role in insuring Web Accessibilty (W3C
WCA). There is no precise protocol for this type although traditionally
such Site Maps consist of a Hierarchal list of links to all pages of the
site. In some cases, depending on the format selected, you can use your
Search Engine submittal Site Map on your Home page.
James
Pickering Pages
http://jp29.org/ - XHTML+RDFa (application/xhtml+xml) ~ XHTML 1.0
text/html) Served via content negotiation according to Browser
capability
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