Functional Requirements for a Whole-of-Australian-Government
Search Architecture
A Report by the Search Engine Working Group (SEWG), January 1998
The Search Engine Working Group (SEWG) is a
Working Group of the Commonwealth Government Technology and Telecommunications
Committee (GTTC), State Navigation Working Party. (The report is also available
in MS Word 2.x for downloading)
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Terms of Reference and Membership
- 1.2 The Information Management Steering
Committee Report
- 1.3 Working Group on Government
Information Navigation
- 1.4 The Role of the Search Engine
Working Group
- 1.5 Use of Public Search Engines
- 1.6 Centralised or Distributed Search
Architecture
- 2. Business Issues
- 2.1 Definition of a
Government Site
- 2.2 Variable Search Support Across
Government
- 2.3 Individual Agency Search Engines
- 2.4 Metadata
- 2.5 Resource Implications
- 2.6 Transition Mechanism
- 3. Functional Requirements
- 3.0 General Issues
- 3.1 Scope of Searching
- 3.2 Data Elements to be Searched
- 3.3 Improving Search Precision
- 3.4 Displaying Search Results
- 3.5 Data Formats to be Searched
- 3.6 Currency
- 3.7 Quality of the Data
- 3.8 Language
- 3.9 Scalability
- 3.10 Help Support
- 4. Search Architecture
- 4.1 The Model
- 4.2 Technical Issues
- 4.2.1 Indexing in Relation to the
Three-Tier Model
- 4.2.2 Responsibility for the Indexing
Function
- 4.2.3 Scalability
- 4.2.4 Language
- 5. Recommendations
- Appendix 1: SEWG Membership
- Appendix 2: SEWG Meeting Dates
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Last updated 13 October 1998