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Federal Web Content Bombshell

15-Apr-2004

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Industry Standards

The U.S. federal Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI) has put out draft web content policies for review. Most of the standards appear obviously useful: apply basic metadata, standardize vocabularies according to citizen intentions, guarantee content freshness, ensure navigational consistency, and so forth. In fact, this document is a bombshell. Most federal agencies simply do not proactively manage their web content today; many don't even know what they publish and where. CMS vendors, taxonomy consultants, and migration specialists should be sharpening their pitches, because if these policies go through -- and we hope they do, for citizens' sake -- web content management is going to elevate quickly as a priority concern across the U.S. government...
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