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Displaying 1 To 2 Of 2 Comments New Zealand Government Feed Standard (Consultation) As a public sector webbie I welcome the move to the atom feed format. Of greater interest to me however is *how* to encourage agencies to publish feeds and then advising them on *what* to publish. The idea of incorporating them into the New Zealand Government Web Standards is a good one. Encouraging agencies to publish a core feed is an excellent way of getting people into the game. This kicks off a wider discussion around the general state of public sector websites. To quote Matthew “Publishing only web pages is not good enough anymore.” That really resonated! And yet, that’s what we continue to do. Too often, valuable information languishes on websites. The data is “dumb” and users can’t interact with it at all. A standard for government feeds is a good start. But really we need to be exposing government data more widely and in a number of ways. Matthew has talked about iCalendar and hCard on this blog for instance. Well - I would like to see more of *that* in the Web Standards. Please Comment Posted By Cj Wells On August 15, 2008 @ 11:17 am hCard Microformat Creator for New Zealand [updated 15 July 2008] Oh awesome! This will be very useful Comment Posted By Cj Wells On May 28, 2008 @ 10:34 am
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