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OW Web Taxonomy and IA Development and Application OW Website Coordination and Organization Project. Presented to the Gilbane Conference by Cy C. Kidd , OW Web Manager and Web Infrastructure Coordinator Tuesday, June 5 th 2007. Project Initiation Phase. Project Tasks.

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  1. OW Web Taxonomy and IA Developmentand ApplicationOW Website Coordination and Organization Project Presented to the Gilbane Conference by Cy C. Kidd, OW Web Manager and Web Infrastructure Coordinator Tuesday, June 5th 2007

  2. Project Initiation Phase

  3. Project Tasks • Develop the OW web taxonomy • Develop the OW web information architecture (IA) • Implement the OW Web CMS • Consolidate existing OW dynamic web page/ application, back-end oracle databases • Revise the OW web standardized operating procedure (SOP)

  4. Goals and Objectives • Close coordination with the Agency taxonomy and IA development efforts • Broad OW Program Office participation • Significant input into the further development of the Agency taxonomy • Goals • Unified, coordinated OW IA • Improved, standardized navigation • More targeted content searches • More predictable search results • Automatic metadata generation • Searchable content inventory/IA

  5. Initial OW Taxonomy/IA Development Plan • Taxonomy/IA development interviews with OW staff (3 rounds) • Interview OW web staff to collect OW-specific taxonomy terms • Train staff to tag content • Collect content tagging data • Prepare draft IA • Collect staff feedback and finalize IA

  6. Revised Plan • Content Tagging Challenges • Varied staff understanding of tagging principals • Staff workload • Culture Change • Revised Strategy – Centralized Tagging • Consistent content tagging/Quality control • Automated tagging/Human review • Simultaneous taxonomy/IA development • Web IA Development Work Sessions • Four 3-hour Sessions • 500 additional hours of work

  7. OW Taxonomy/IA Summary • OW Taxonomy extension complete • As a result of the work done in Task 1 and 2 OW has suggested: • 81 new terms for the Agency taxonomy • 1 to 7 synonyms for 810 existing Agency taxonomy terms • 1284 folders tagged • 16,114 pages inherited folder-level attributes • Fixes needed • 4524 directories currently do not contain an index.html file • OW IA Version 1.0 Complete!

  8. Navigation And Metadata • Navigation Benefits • Automatic Navigation Controls Generation • All navigational links are automatically generated and based on the IA • Intuitive Navigation • Consistent navigation features and placement • Additional, automated navigation controls • Automatic Metadata • Default metadata values • IA position • Author/Organization

  9. OW IA Version 1.0

  10. Next Steps • Project Tasks • Implement the OW Web CMS • Content Alignment • Web IA Quick Reference • Content Migration • Additional Tasks • Revised OW Web SOP • Automated Cross-Office Topic pages

  11. Project Team • Project Creator and TOPO • Cy KiddOW Web Manager and Web Infrastructure CoordinatorKidd.Cy@epa.gov • Contracting Team • Primary – Lockheed-Martin IT (ITS-ESE) • Sub-Contractors • Taxonomy Strategies • Welchman Consulting (IA)

  12. Questions and Answers

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