The State Services Commission has published an updated Government feed standard based on Atom. Currently in draft for consultation until 13th August 2008, this will replace the 2003 e-GIF RDF specification for New Zealand Government feeds.
‘Standards & Compliance’ Category
New Zealand Government Feed Standard (Consultation)
July 22nd, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 13 Comments »Feeds for Thought
July 22nd, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 1 Comment »I gave a presentation Feeds for Thought in June for the Government Web Community covering trends around feeds, microformats and the web slice. The presentation has been updated and is relevant as collateral to the draft 2008 NZ Government Feed Standard.
IP version 6 practical exploration diary - part one
May 30th, 2008 by Greg Rogan | 1 Comment »hCard Microformat Creator for New Zealand [updated 15 July 2008]
May 23rd, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 4 Comments »Macrons on the Net
May 7th, 2008 by Ewen Cumming | 1 Comment »For many users the way to insert a macron (ā,ē,ī,ō,ū) whilst writing is to find a page with one and copy/paste the needed character. Obviously there are easier ways, in this post I explore and experiment with a few methods to easily add macrons when entering content for the web.
Economic Impact of OSS
April 18th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »There is increasing recognition of the economic impact of Open Source Software (OSS), offering productivity gains for local industries and generating export revenue by servicing offshore markets.
The Australian Open Source Industry Community Report 2008 says “…conservative projection of earnings suggests that the Open Source industry generates $500 million in revenue each year, with over 50% of that being directly related to Open Source”
What are these things called feeds?
April 11th, 2008 by Greg Rogan | No Comments »Good Practice for 404 Error Pages [updated 18/04/08]
April 4th, 2008 by Ewen Cumming | 1 Comment »Almost every web user will have encountered a ‘404 - Not Found’ error at some point. After reading an interesting discussion topic started by Ben Bradshaw on the Web Standards Wiki about 404 good practice I decided to fix our site’s 404 error page.
Privacy Issues on Social Networks
April 4th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »A revealing video from The Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada highlights privacy issues on social networks.
XML Governance - you know you need it!
March 28th, 2008 by Derek Rayner | 1 Comment »Well - maybe you don’t yet. It’s one thing to promote standards for exchanging information and transactions across the web, quite another to manage the result.
Within the New Zealand government domain, a framework is taking shape that aims to manage key objects and make them available. Object types include XML (and other) schemas for data exchange, agency or industry defined coding schemes, web service definitions and many others.



