"Leverage intelligence loaded into your meta data" Using controlled lists to: • Create Nice URIs to the heart of your services • Improve your website usability • Promote “Good Joined up Government” • Drive “layered searches” • Gather better intelligence Bring your meta data to life!
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"Leverage intelligence loaded into your meta data"
Using controlled lists to:• Create Nice URIs to the heart of your
services• Improve your website usability• Promote “Good Joined up Government”• Drive “layered searches”• Gather better intelligence
Bring your meta data to life!
About me : Paul Geraghty
• 10 years working in local government
• Web Administrator – PHP nerd• Create tagging and CMS tools• Early adopter of controlled lists• Website: www.councilsites.co.uk
pages2) Improve search results • “Did you mean?”• Layered search• Tag clouds
CaveatsTo act upon this advice may need
help from:• Members of your IT department• Software vendor• Someone like me
“The council does that…”
Controlled lists and local government
1. Service List (LGSL) clearly defined key services a council/agency provides
2. Navigation List Links 1:1 with Service list
3. IPSV 12,000 terms used in government
Examples …
Service list upcloseService 130
Term Housing - improvements - adaptations of council property
Scope Notes
The Council provides adaptations to Council properties to suit the needs of disabled people or people with mobility problems. These can include providing a rail, lever taps, ramp, shower or stairlift. If the adaptations are non-essential a tenant has the right to…. (contd.)
Navigation List upclose
Nav-list
130
Title Council housing - home adaptations
>> Housing
Adapting homes
Council housing
Improvements and repairs
Supported and sheltered housing
>> Council and democracy
Supported and sheltered housing
>> Health and social care
Adapting homes
IPSV upcloseId 8298 (Preferred)
useID 0
Name Adapting homes
Id 3299 (related items)
Name Home adaptions
Id 3534 (related items)
Name Stairlifts
Id 3477 (related items)
Name Equipment for the disabled
Id 8125 (related items)
Name Care for disabled people
Id 2263 (related items)
Name Building alterations
Services / IPSV Mapping
IPSV 3298
Service
130
Id 3298 (Preferred + 5 non preferred terms)
Name Adapting homesService 130
Term Housing - improvements - adaptations of council property
Scope Notes
The Council provides adaptations to Council properties to suit the needs of disabled people or people with mobility problems. These can include providing … etc
3 controlled lists
Service
130
Id 3298 (Preferred + 5 non preferred terms)
Nav-list 130
Important page
How to manage all this information?
• Meta data management system (MMS)• Layer linking controlled lists and your
content• MMS outputs meta data + is searchable
Worlds Simplest MMS
Service 130
Housing - improvements - adaptations of council property
URL My.gov.uk/housing/adapt.html
Your MMS could be just:
... and could contain “other partners” URLs:Service 209
Defn: From Wordpress – a slug is a term for a unique text link that can be pseudonym for a more complicated URI or used as a database key
My.gov.uk/tag/Housing
My.gov.uk/tag/AdaptingHomes
Dynamic page, description and link creation – no humans are involved except
to tag
What is happening …
Both service numbers: • .gov.uk/tag/130• .gov.uk/tag/100001
And service Terms (or titles):• .gov.uk/tag/CouncilHousing-
HomeAdaptions• .gov.uk/tag/Housing
Make your website handle requests to a virtual page that handles…
Interface to your main services
• Predictable set of URIs to each local service • Activates the LG Navigation List • API you can link to yourself, e.g. from search• With a copy of the Service list “other
partners” can link to your main services• Help more citizens to get through to the right
service provider (joined up government)• Creates Nice URIs
Why Nice URIs are good• Search engine friendly• Read them out on the phone• Reproduce in print easily• Guessable / predictable• Permanent • Counter CMS derived ‘unfriendly
• The computer does the work !• Around 2400 virtual “pages”
– Slugs (/ tag / Schools-HomeSchooling)– Service PIDs (/ tag / 1 )
• Once compiled, low maintenance– 6 monthly update from esd-toolkit
Why slugs are bad (are they?)
• Your meta data is no longer hidden• Loss of absolute control• Inconsistencies caused by bad
tagging – LGSL tagging– IPSV tagging
… can result in missed or unexpected page content …
• Lots of feedback (more work!)
Controlled vocabularies in a “Layered search”
strategy• Log public search terms• Analyse these results• Intercept recognised patterns• Provide intuitive links first• Then go on and do a ‘Google-type’
Intercept a single word• Disambiguate that term : Wikipedia idea
link• User searches for a single word• Search through Service list • Show scope notes• Ask: Did you mean?• Optionally halt expensive all-site searches• Gather valuable information … example …
• Clicks on a Service description provide more granular information than “webpage hits”
• Important webpages can contain more than one LGSL service
• Compare “search term” with “service picked”
• Possibly adapt Service and Navigation titles– Locally for your own taxonomy– Nationally esd.org.uk/forums
What you are gathering
From Search you can collect:• Citizen selected services• The time of day• Day of week• Week of year• MonthMixing temporal and behavioural patterns
…
Tag clouds
• A visual map of terms that users attach to a page or document a “Folksonomy”
• Tag cloud terms are generally one word
• The more popular a word is – the bigger it is
3 tag cloud styles
Tag clouds using a controlled vocabulary- lets use Service Terms instead of words
…
Controlled list tag clouds • Gather intelligence about the services
citizens request from:– Your LGNL navigation /tag/StreetParking-Fines– Search intercepts and service clicks
• What people want (not simply what pages citizens are visiting)
• Activity in the last hour • Predict activity each month (year on year)
For the publiccontrolled lists can provide
…• Better “Joined up Government” • Easy to remember URIs• Information about where they are
going• Increasing the likelihood they find
key services via search • Show what is popular today/this
week
For youcontrolled lists provide …
• Value added searchable text store • Reduced maintenance costs• Feedback and for your own meta data• A way to predict “what citizens want” • Proof of what users really want
They are not just <meta tag /> fillers
Last slide …
• Contact me : Paul Geraghty• www.councilsites.co.uk• Thank you
“Bring your meta data to life, and profit from your investment.”