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Service Tasmania Online - Papers and presentations
The following list provides access to specific and general information about ServiceTasmania Online, the information architecture behind this web site, etc. Most of the resources provided here are powerpoint presentations or word documents.
- General overview of Service Tasmania Online
Powerpoint presentation- General description of Service Tasmania Online
Information and technical architecture, software components - Word document- Information architecture, design and metadata issues
Policy and design issues affecting the development of an Information Architecture for a Government Resource Discovery Service - Paper presented at Communications Research Conference, 2000 - word document- An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Current Dublin Core Metadata for Retrieval
Presents the results of a study into the effectiveness of Dublin Core metadata for retrieval. The embedded metadata from twenty Australian government and educational organisations was analysed in terms of its accuracy and ability to enhance discovery. - Paper presented at the VALA Conference, 2000 - word document- Cataloguers may yet inherit the earth
Discusses the need for quality metadata, and describes Service Tasmania Online information architecture and its reliance on a metadata repository with high quality metadata - Paper presented at the Information Online Conference, 2001 - word document- Understanding metadata
A discussion paper that argues that metadata schema development is not complete until there are defined data standards, data creation rules, and data creation business processes. - word document- Navigation hierarchy
The complete list of headings used for the navigation hierarchy that is accessed via the 'for information' box on the home page of Service Tasmania Online- Stable Tasmanian Open Repository Service (STORS)
Presentation used to describe the rationale and features of the STORS service- Service Tasmania story/ Victoria Rigney (2003)
- Report of the Service Tasmania Project comprehensive review
- Government portal survey May 2006 - Appendix 1
For further information please contact
Lloyd Sokvitne (email: lloyd.sokvitne@education.tas.gov.au) or Jan Lavelle (email: jan.lavelle@education.tas.gov.au)