New navigation for education content on GOV.UK
The Finding Things team have been working with the Department for Education and agencies to make it easier for people to find what they need on GOV.UK.
Finding things
What we’ve been working on: designing GOV.UK
You might have noticed that the design of GOV.UK hasn't changed much for a while. Or at least, not visibly.
Presenting our new taxonomy beta!
It’s official: the new GOV.UK taxonomy is now in beta.
Tagging all the things together
The Finding Things team held a tagging day on 9 January 2017 to connect the education-related content to the draft new taxonomy. Publishers look at each of their pages and choose tags like "Early years funding" and "Phonics".
Simplified tagging infrastructure and tools - done.
The Finding Things team have completed their mission to rebuild and simplify GOV.UK’s tagging infrastructure!
The finding and the things
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Finding things, User insights, What we're working on
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.
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.
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The GOV.UK roadmap
Read the GOV.UK roadmap to find out what the GOV.UK team are working on. It shows what we’ve recently shipped, what we’re working on and what we’re looking into.
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