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Compliance

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Crawl Score features a powerful meta data analysis suite - this is essential for public sector organisations that need to comply with standards such as eGMS. The meta data analysis suite includes libraries of metadata standards such as AGLS (Australian Government Locator Service) and internationally recognised DC 1.1 (Dublin Core).

Most Public Sector websites, in the UK and abroad, should adhere to various metadata standards. Crawl Score has “libraries” of a number of worldwide standards including eGMS 3.1 which is relevant to UK Public Sector websites.

In the UK the standard is known as the e-Government Metadata Standard (eGMS) which is part of the e-Government Interoperability Framework (eGIF) adoption of which, and compliance with which, is mandatory.

eGMS contains many elements which refer to specific information about resources (EG TITLE, AUTHOR, DATE, CONTRIBUTOR) and some elements contain refinements which describe different aspects of each element (EG DATE.ISSUED, DATE.MODIFIED). We give these elements values to describe the resource (EG AUTHOR = John Smith) andsome elements require values in specific formats (EG DATEs must be formatted YYYY-MM-DD). Some elements must contain values picked from a controlled vocabulary (EG AUDIENCE)

Metadata reporting functionality

Crawl Score will crawl every page on a given website and extract the metadata specified.

This content is then available in a number of ways including :

  • Show mandatory, Recommended and Optional tags for all pages
  • Count of compliant and non-compliant pages
  • Drill down to each tag
  • Filter metadata reports by site section
  • Create and report upon custom tags
  • Extensive library of pre-built standards (EG DC 1.1, eGMS 3.1)
  • Show missing tags
  • Show where tags are present but content is empty

Crawl Score also offers consultancy services to help you achieve the standards.

Meta data – a definition :

Metadata is data used to describe the nature and content of resources, in order to allow third-party systems to search those resources

Metadata is extra information which one adds to a resource in order to describe it more efficiently. A parallel example is a library catalogue entry for a book: the book is the resource, and the catalogue entry contains extra information about the book, including author, title, publication date and so on. The library catalogue then allows someone to search for a given book without having to read every book in the library. This is the role of metadata. It allows automated searches to find relevant resources without having to trawl entire contents of documents.