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How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future

Three information architects standing in front of a large screen displaying a presentation slide which reads: “World Information Architecture Day London 2025. 32 locations, 17 countries, 5 continents.”

How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future

As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK’s ambitions.

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GOV.UK transition: a round up of the best blog posts

Posted by: Mark Hazelby, Posted on: 16 June 2014 - Categories: Transition

It’s been a few weeks since we collected together some of the best blog posts from across GDS. Looking back over nearly 3 months of updates, it’s clear to see what we’ve been delivering a lot. So here’s the latest …

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How GOV.UK site search works

Posted by: Tara Stockford, Senior Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, GDS, Posted on: 13 June 2014 - Categories: How we work

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’re often asked, ‘how does search work?’ Site search is quite a big topic, but what people usually want to know …

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GOV.UK weeknotes (11 June)

Posted by: Graham Francis, Posted on: 11 June 2014 - Categories: What we're working on

What’s in GOV.UK’s rear-view and what’s on the horizon this week. What we’ve done recently In the past couple of weeks, we have: launched the register to vote service on GOV.UK upgraded featuring on homepages, topic and worldwide pages - …

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Clearer and simpler metadata across GOV.UK

Posted by: Will Callaghan, Posted on: 9 June 2014 - Categories: Product changes

We're changing the metadata labels across the Departments and Policy section of GOV.UK to make browsing simpler and more intuitive. Many new labels have been added in the last couple of years. What started out as easy to follow has …

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Content clinic 28 May: what we talked about

Posted by: Rosie Cowling, Posted on: 6 June 2014 - Categories: Best practice, Events

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. The GOV.UK content clinic is an opportunity for departmental and agency editors to meet each other and get their questions answered by …

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New manuals format

Posted by: Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 5 June 2014 - Categories: Product changes

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. The Product Gaps team are building a new format for long, structured guidance. We’re calling this format ‘manuals’, because many of …

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Improvements to featuring: now you can promote more things

Posted by: Graham Francis, Posted on: 3 June 2014 - Categories: Product changes

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve recently upgraded the ‘featuring’ interface for GOV.UK publishers. For the first time, you can promote items that live outside the …

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Where to find guidance about style and publishing on GOV.UK

Posted by: Clare Lenton, Posted on: 3 June 2014 - Categories: Best practice

From time to time, we use this blog (Inside GOV.UK) to publish up to date guidance about how to use features we've added to the site. However, a few of you have said that although this works OK for timely updates, it's a real hassle …

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What is 'mainstream' content?

Posted by: Jon Sanger, Posted on: 2 June 2014 - Categories: Best practice, How we work

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. GOV.UK has different content areas that deal with different audiences and topics. One term we use a lot when talking about …

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GOV.UK weeknotes (2 June)

Posted by: Lisa Scott, Posted on: 2 June 2014 - Categories: What we're working on

Some things we've done in the past couple of weeks released a new, unified site-search built an Alpha of the first HMRC Manual on GOV.UK started work on a manual format for all departments and agencies to use added editioning …

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