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An update on the GOV.UK taxonomy

An update on the GOV.UK taxonomy

We’ve made huge strides over the past year towards our vision of a single sitewide taxonomy that powers front end navigation. Find out what we've done and what's next.

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Experimenting with a new way of moving between content types

Posted by: Alan Maddrell and Ganesh Senthi, Posted on: 18 December 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
Screenshot of 'Services' and 'Guidance and regulation' supergroups

Users sometimes want to switch between different types of content on GOV.UK. We've been experimenting with a new way of doing this.

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Making sure users can see updates by optimising caching

Posted by: Thomas Leese and Elliot Crosby-McCullough, Posted on: 28 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
Members of the Platform Health team

We've been working on improving publishing times for GOV.UK content. One of the ways we've been doing this is by optimising caching.

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Making content supergroups more super

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 21 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
A screenshot of a supergroup example on the 'Education, training and skills' topic page

'Supergroups' help users find relevant content on GOV.UK by grouping document types together. Here's what we've been doing to improve them.

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How tagging has changed for publishers

Posted by: Si Stephens-Manassiev, Posted on: 14 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Finding things, Product changes
A section of the GOV.UK taxonomy tree showing 3 themes at level 1: 'International'. 'Health and social care' and 'Regional and local government'

We've been working on creating a single sitewide taxonomy for GOV.UK. Find out how what this means for people across government who publish content to GOV.UK.

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Incident roundup - March to May 2018

Posted by: GOV.UK support team, Posted on: 2 November 2018 - Categories: Incident reports
GOV.UK Incident Report

We're committed to blogging about every severity 1 or severity 2 incident on GOV.UK. Here's a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between March and May 2018.

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Using topic pages to organise content on GOV.UK

Posted by: Mia Allers, Posted on: 1 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Finding things, Product changes
A screen shot of the 'Education, training and skills' topic page

Users can struggle to find what they need when they navigate through GOV.UK. Topic pages will help them find what they're looking for more easily.

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Introducing a simpler, data-informed publishing experience

Posted by: Robert Rockstroh, Posted on: 23 October 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
Members from the publishing workflow and data teams discussing sketches for the new interface.

We've been working on improving the tools government organisations use to publish content, and the way they use data to make sure that content stays useful.

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How we're improving publishing times

Posted by: Steve Messer and Deborah Chua, Posted on: 10 September 2018 - Categories: Product changes, Vision and plans
Steve looking at the publishing pipeline on a whiteboard

For the past few weeks, we've been working on making improvements to the GOV.UK publishing pipeline. Here's what we've done so far and what's coming next.

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Changes to organisation pages for both publishers and users

Posted by: Ganesh Senthi, Posted on: 14 June 2018 - Categories: Product changes, Vision and plans
Organisation management process

Over the coming months, we are working to improve sections of GOV.UK that relate to government departments and agencies (what we define as ‘organisations’).

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Running a content improvement project

Posted by: Polly Green, Posted on: 6 June 2018 - Categories: Content, Working with us
Trello board for planning improvement work

In the first 2 quarters of 2017 to 2018, some of GOV.UK’s content designers led improvement projects with government departments on specific content areas. The goal was to improve our understanding of user needs and iterate content to meet those …

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