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www.parliament.nz. moving towards integration. 1. THE OLD PARADIGM. Information on the old site was: scattered inconsistent different / inflexible formats unconnected unrelated to other websites not searchable. a. Scattered information.

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  1. www.parliament.nz moving towards integration

  2. 1. THE OLD PARADIGM Information on the old site was: • scattered • inconsistent • different / inflexible formats • unconnected • unrelated to other websites • not searchable www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  3. a. Scattered information • Hansard was in one place, oral questions were in another, bills were on a different site altogether ... • One Publications page that had grown out of control as information was added, with no overall content strategy. www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  4. Volume 629 Index Week 6 Index 14 February PDF 15 February PDF 16 February PDF Week 7 Index 21 February PDF 22 February PDF 23 February PDF Week 8 Index 28 February PDF 1 March PDF 2 March PDF Week 9 Index 14 March PDF 15 March PDF 16 March PDF Volume 630 Index Week 10 Index 21 March PDF 22 March PDF 23 March PDF Week 11 Index 28 March PDF 29 March PDF 30 March PDF Week 12 Index 4 April PDF 5 April PDF 6 April PDF Week 13 Index 2 May PDF 3 May PDF b. Inconsistent information No unified way of presenting Parliamentarycontent ... www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  5. c. Different / inflexible formats .htmluniversal but unsophisticated. .pdfgood for print publications, bad for extracting and relating data. .txteven less sophisticated than html. .docnot a “standard”; used for forms. .xmlmore recent publishing projects used this. www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  6. Select Committee Reports Order Paper Debates Bills d. Unconnected information ... and no way of relating Parliamentary content. A different approach had been taken for every new piece of content, all done without considering how to relate it to anything else. So we ended up with information islands www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  7. e. Information unrelated to other websites • Rather than establishing a protocol for sharing specific information with other organisations, we put up “click here to go to this site” links. • Then users would be expected to start all over again to find what they were looking for on a different site with different rules. www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  8. f. Information not searchable • The biggest problem of all. • If users can’t navigate to the information, they should at least be able to do a search. • Search results on old site were confusing and, 99% of the time, meaningless. • This had a lot to do with the previously mentioned issues – different formats, scattered information, etc. www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  9. Despite all of these issues, much of our internal information already came from one source ... www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  10. Business Event Recording & Tracking system B usiness E vent R ecording & T racking system www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  11. BERT • BERT stored much of what we needed in one place, and in one format. • Whatever approach we took with the new site, BERT would be crucial to making it work. www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  12. 2. A NEW APPROACH Decisions were made about the technology platform: .NET framework for servers. MCMS for site administration. SQL server for information storage and retrieval. DocBook (XML) for information standardisation. www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  13. What isDocBook? • An XML schema • Originally designedfor technicaldocumentation. • Up to v4.3 www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  14. Development • Biggest and most complex phase of the project. • Began well before we chose DocBook – functional spec. determined what we required. • Encompassed a variety of publications – legislation, transcripts, questions, lists, biographical information, etc. • Everything needed to be integrated – i.e. we needed a common standard. www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  15. Development, continued • We called in the developers. • We started working on migrating our information to DocBook: • BERT data taken from SQL and exported as XML, with PDF attachments. • Document Publishing Wizard: would take a Word document and convert it to DocBook. • Customised process for Hansard. www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  16. BERT to DocBook Information was taken from BERT and other sources, converted to DocBook XML, and placed in a ‘Document Store’ (SQL again) Document Store Other Sources www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

  17. DocBook to HTML Documents from the Document Store all have unique IDs, and are all relatable. www.parliament.nz Land Transport Amdt Bill 00DBHOH_BILL72_1 Select Com. Report - Transport Bill 48DBSCH_SCR3528_1 Document Store Written question 127 (2006) QWA_127_2006 MP details: Helen Clark 48MP12981 www.parliament.nz : moving towards integration

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