rijksoverheid.nl - choices and challenges gilbane boston 3 december 2009
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Presentation about some choices and challenges surrounding CMS'ses faced in the project Rijksoverheid.nlTRANSCRIPT
www.rijksoverheid.nlOverheidscommunicatie Nieuwe Stijl„Central Government Communication New Style‟
Political wish & decision“less people in central government”
+ Web „problem‟16 websites for central government
Idea: „shared service‟Smaller, flexible, better quality …
… less people, less confusion
16 websites from 13 departments into 1:
www.rijksoverheid.nl
something like www.‟centralgovernment‟.nl :-)
Less costs, less people, better quality
Websites
CMS
Search
Hosting
Editorial staff
16
16
16
9
5
+
Business needs…are user needs!Government websites must be available to everyone…
User needs!Information in one placeLess confusion
Reduced complexity… UCD & usability-testing
Webguidelines/WCAG Accessibility and build quality
Open data/contentSocial media/webX.0
CMS: „EveryFlavour Beans‟…
Implementationis everything!
Open Standards/Open Source?
• Future proof flow of information• Open code, less vendor lock-in, sharing components and code withingovernment
Taking but also giving; re-useinstead of re-inventing…
Your CMS MUST be able to separate
External
sources
(X)HTML
structure
API’s
Widgets
Feeds
CMS
CSS
presentation
Javascript
behaviour
Database
content
Repository
Website
13 departments who are different (are they?)How to organize this?
Migration: 16 websites, 15 years of content …Scope, automatic and by hand... know what you want and need.
Project Management Agile/SCRUM, multi-disciplinary teams. Gives interaction and insight.
Challenges
Photo credits: Crayon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rednut/ Binnenhof: http://www.flickr.com/photos/roberts87/ India bus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cumbers/ Crowd: http://www.flickr.com/photos/redjar/ User: David Vignoni
Confusion: http://www.flickr.com/photos/circulating/ Hippo: Hippo Challenge: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/
Thank you!
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