This is the first in a series of articles looking at specific technologies that are highly applicable in a government context. RDFa should be of interest to anyone wanting to make information available on the web in a smart usable way.
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.
Web feeds - also known as Atom or RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds - allow you to read and keep up to date with new content from multiple sources (websites, blogs, wikis etc).
A revealing video from The Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada highlights privacy issues on social networks.
Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb wrote an interesting article last year about how current e-Government web trends are moving away from Portals or ‘one stop shops’ towards reusable web services.
We have contributed to a submission from the State Services Commission to the New Zealand Domain Name Commission, developing discussion points regarding the implementation of IDNs into the .nz domain name space - which would enable the registration of domain names using the five additional characters of the Māori alphabet, the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū.
