This proposed Government feed standard based on Atom will replace the 2003 e-GIF RDF specification for New Zealand Government feeds.
The consultation period runs to 20th May 2009.
New Zealand Government Feed Standard 2009 (Second Consultation)
April 17th, 2009 by Matthew Ross | 6 Comments »Tools for the Online Community Circle
March 4th, 2009 by Derek Rayner | 2 Comments »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”? Full article »
Open Government, Data Reuse, and Semantic Publishing
February 24th, 2009 by Brad Taylor | 4 Comments »Government holds a lot of information, much of it potentially very useful to a variety of non-government individuals and groups. Making this information more freely available for third-party reuse has the potential to create public value, improve efficiency, and increase government transparency. By separating information from presentation, semantic publishing provides a technical avenue by which the policy goal of open government data can be advanced.
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How to subscribe to an iCalendar
November 27th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »
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?
WCAG 2.0 Implementation Report
November 4th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »
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.
WCAG 2 Candidate Recommendation Implementation
October 14th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 2 Comments »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.
RDFa - Resource Description Framework attributes
October 9th, 2008 by Derek Rayner | No Comments »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.
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Vote for an accessibility enhancement to Wordpress.
October 8th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 2 Comments »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!)
New Zealand Government Feed Standard (Consultation)
July 22nd, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 17 Comments »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.
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.
