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Redevelopment of ParlInfo system

Redevelopment of ParlInfo system. John Macdonald Director, Publishing. What is ParlInfo?. Conceived as the repository and retrieval system for documents created or collected by the Parliament Interfaces to authoring systems All documents held in a single repository PDF, SGML, XML, Word

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Redevelopment of ParlInfo system

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  1. Redevelopment of ParlInfo system John Macdonald Director, Publishing

  2. What is ParlInfo? • Conceived as the repository and retrieval system for documents created or collected by the Parliament • Interfaces to authoring systems • All documents held in a single repository • PDF, SGML, XML, Word • Two versions: ‘Full Client’ and PIWeb • First released in 1997

  3. Chamber Hansard Committee transcripts Notice Papers Senate Journals House V&P Daily Program Bills, EMs, Amendments Bills Digests Parliamentary Handbook Standing Orders House/Senate Practice Library publications Library catalogues Journal articles Press clippings Press releases Radio & TV transcripts Constitutional conventions Constitution 1,900,000 documents, including:

  4. ParlInfo search screen

  5. ParlInfo usage

  6. So why replace it? • Expectations: clients have become “Google-ised” • Limitations: ParlInfo is: • Based on ageing technologies • Relatively inflexible • Complex in functionality and technology • Difficult and expensive to maintain and enhance • Suffering due to some data quality issues

  7. Principles of redevelopment • Business needs of diverse user base: • Senators, Members and their staff • Parliamentary departmental staff • Authors/content providers • External agencies • Australian public • Distributed repository, federated search • Single web interface – no client software • Simple to use, develop and support • Buy not build (as far as is possible…)

  8. Some issues • Conflicting needs of novice and sophisticated users • Providing global search over a distributed repository • Future-proofing technology choices • Blind men and the elephant

  9. Project progress • Steering Committee • Stage 1: Repository audit, user needs analysis • Stage 2: Statement of requirements, Functional specification, plan for next stage • Stage 3…tba… • Stage 4…tba…

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