Re: Group Call Tomorrow

All -

I agree with Jose - if 'best practice' means anything, we should expect to
find (or establish) common practices, and I would assume that this group
would be interested in compiling them.


Further to Chris Beer's point about the availability of Australian state web
guidelines, it takes digging but most can be found on the web:

*Australian Capital Territory*:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/docs/Website_Development_Mgt_Standard.doc(this
however is only through a third-party site; I wasn't able to find a
copy on the ACT site itself)

*New South Wales*:
http://www.gcio.nsw.gov.au/products-and-services/policies-guidelines/copy_of_nsw-government-website-style-directive-1

*Queensland *has an 'internet' standard:
http://www.qgcio.qld.gov.au/qgcio/architectureandstandards/informationstandards/current/Pages/Internet.aspx

- and 'Consistent User Experience' guidelines:
http://www.qld.gov.au/web/cue/overview/

*South Australia*
http://www.sa.gov.au/subject/Corporate+information/Office+of+the+Chief+Information+Officer/Policies+and+standards/Applications+and+internet

- with related standards here:
http://www.sa.gov.au/subject/Corporate+information/Office+of+the+Chief+Information+Officer/Policies+and+standards

*Tasmania* - a number of related standards here:
http://www.egovernment.tas.gov.au/

*Western Australia *Website Governance Framework:
http://www.egov.dpc.wa.gov.au/POLICIESANDGUIDELINES/WEBSITEGOVERNANCEFRAMEWORK/Pages/Default.aspx


I could not find standards for the Northern Territory, though I will try
some other avenues.

Regards,
Bruce



On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Jose Manuel Alonso <
josema.alonso@fundacionctic.org> wrote:

> Agree.
> What is more... something we slightly discussed as group (ages ago) is if
> it would make sense to do that research and try to extract the common thing
> to build some sort of easy standard best practices at W3C based on those and
> W3C expertise and existing stuff.
>
> I would like to hear opinions about this. If this would be helpful or not.
> I believe if we could do this in a collaborative way with initiatives
> already mentioned we could eventually stop reinventing the wheel, release
> them as a W3C document, and maintain this common BPs at W3C.
>
> Does this make sense? Are those BPs out there related enough to make it?
> Are those developing and maintaining them interested in doing this? I
> believe David was positive about this in a previous email, would like to
> hear from Rachel and others.
>
> This might well be the main deliverable of the Education and Outreach TF.
>
> -- Jose
>