Research e-Labs

Why a community circle - sounds kind of old fashioned.  I’m thinking of the tendency for successful online communities to circle through online and real physical spaces and back again.  What technologies should we use to to make the online space richer and “more real”?

New Zealand government agencies have recently published important dates in iCalendar format. This enables you to subscribe to the calendar using your preferred organiser or calendar program (e.g. Outlook). How easy is that?

Exciting news! This site has been included in in the Implementation List for the W3C’s WCAG 2.0 Implementation Report, achieving Level AA conformance.

This site has been designed to achieve accessibility standards. However due to a combination of unrefined standards and misreporting by testing tools, it has previously been difficult to make a clear-cut assessment of compliance with existing standards.

Many years of work by the W3C has led to the development of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 which is now in the Release Candidate process.

We have submitted this site as an example Candidate Recommendation Implementation and have performed our own self-assessment here.

Visit http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/

Find/search for the idea:
“search - add title tag, make it WCAG 2 compliant / accessibility”

Rate it! (a 5 of course!)

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.

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.

A few folk here at SSC recently decided to set up a IPv6 network. As most will know, global IPv4 addresses are running out and IPv6 introduces a far larger address space. What follows is a diary or log entry style format showing my progress and thought patterns.

The hCard microformat is an open format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places with machine-readable semantic HTML. We have published a tool (beta) for generating hCard code for a typical New Zealand address and testing the mapping of that address with Google maps.