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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 5th 2007
Project Initiation Phase
February 2006
Project concept presented to
OW Web Council
February – July 2006
Project steps and concepts
explained to OW Web staff
and managers:
Approximately 24 meetings
Several lively follow-up
meetings
July 2006
Senior Management
Approval
August 2006
AA and DAA approval and
funding
October 2006
Project start
Project Tasks
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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)
Goals and Objectives
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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
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Unified, coordinated OW IA
Improved, standardized navigation
More targeted content searches
More predictable search results
Automatic metadata generation
Searchable content inventory/IA
Initial OW Taxonomy/IA
Development Plan
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Taxonomy/IA development interviews with
OW staff (3 rounds)
Interview OW web staff to collect OWspecific taxonomy terms
Train staff to tag content
Collect content tagging data
Prepare draft IA
Collect staff feedback and finalize IA
Revised Plan
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Content Tagging Challenges
• Varied staff understanding of tagging
principals
• Staff workload
• Culture Change
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Revised Strategy – Centralized
Tagging
• Consistent content tagging/Quality control
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Automated tagging/Human review
• Simultaneous taxonomy/IA development
• Web IA Development Work Sessions
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Four 3-hour Sessions
• 500 additional hours of work
OW Taxonomy/IA Summary
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OW Taxonomy extension complete
• As a result of the work done in Task 1 and 2
OW has suggested:
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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
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OW IA Version 1.0 Complete!
Navigation And Metadata
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Navigation Benefits
• Automatic Navigation Controls Generation
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All navigational links are automatically generated and
based on the IA
• Intuitive Navigation
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Consistent navigation features and placement
Additional, automated navigation controls
Automatic Metadata
• Default metadata values
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IA position
Author/Organization
OW IA Version 1.0
Next Steps
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Project Tasks
• Implement the OW Web CMS
• Content Alignment
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Web IA Quick Reference
• Content Migration
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Additional Tasks
• Revised OW Web SOP
• Automated Cross-Office Topic
pages
Project Team
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Project Creator and TOPO
• Cy Kidd
OW Web Manager and Web
Infrastructure Coordinator
[email protected]
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Contracting Team
• Primary – Lockheed-Martin IT (ITS-ESE)
• Sub-Contractors
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Taxonomy Strategies
Welchman Consulting (IA)
Questions and Answers