GOV.UK
The finding and the things
On the GOV.UK Finding Things team we are working on developing a ‘single subject taxonomy’ to improve navigation and search on GOV.UK. We decided to trial this approach with education content.
Finding things
Making it easier to tag content
The 3 existing ways of tagging things mainstream browse categories, policy areas, topics and subtopics means that tagging is complex and publishers aren’t clear what effect tagging has and where the document will appear. We want to separate the process …
Building a new tagging infrastructure for GOV.UK
We're changing how tagging works behind the scenes to allow us to create a single way of categorising content ('taxonomy') for all content on GOV.UK. In October we laid out our plan to improve navigation on GOV.UK. It consists of …
Finding things audit (2/2): how early years went
Education is the first theme of the GDS finding things project, and early years is the first content area. As we’ve now completed our audit of the early years content, and it went pretty smoothly, other departments have been asking …
Finding things audit (1/2): what, why, how
The finding things taxonomy work has completed the first content audit. This involved editors from different organisations reviewing all the content about early years education and childcare provision (eg childminding). Here's how we got on.
Site search improvements: quick wins
We’ve made quite a few improvements and fixes to the GOV.UK search engine this year, even though our main focus has been on improving navigation and how content is organised.
Developing a subject-based taxonomy for GOV.UK
Why is the topic taxonomy important? We want users to be able to find related content across government about a particular topic via a single browse structure. This is central to the vision for improving navigation on GOV.UK, as Ben …
Improving navigation on GOV.UK
One of the biggest frustrations users sometimes have with GOV.UK is the difficulty of finding what they need - and discovering what they don’t yet know they need - through site search and navigation.