Edwin Bruce This is Me

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1. 1. www.imsproject.org

   www.imsproject.org/NZmeeting20 - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 8/13/2007

   State Services Commission representative (Edwin Bruce)

2. 2. emara Community Portal -- powered by X-Gate News

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   Last Visited: 11/4/2006

   Edwin Bruce, web standards manager for the State Services Commission's e-government unit, says the motivation should not be to prevent litigation, but to make a smart business move.

3. 3. MIS | Magazine > Code, load and explode

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   Published on: 10/18/2003   Last Visited: 10/18/2003

   Edwin Bruce, the delivery manager for the e-government unit, State Services Commission in Wellington, New Zealand has run what he calls the "Government services portal project" for the past 12 months. Metadata about government services has been critical to the undoubted success of this portal project. The metadata standard used has actually been developed by the government and is called the NZ government locator standard.
   
   "The metaphor we use is that we not only describe government services, but we also describe the associated documentation, forms, Web sites, advisory services, etc," says Bruce.
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   Bruce says one result of having a centralised, highly structured repository of metadata has been the ability to use it to create a cookbook for building portlets that are re-useable by others.
   
   Instead of having to build their own infrastructure, users are able to use these portlets to deliver a range of online services. "Metadata is transferred to the portal through a variety of mechanisms and basically dished up to a new audience in a different way with wrappers around it. So we can roll out new portals in this country quickly and cheaply," he says.
   
   "We can now very easily look at government from a service, a function or a subject-based perspective without having to understand the structure," says Bruce. Thus citizens are able to locate government services without having any understanding of the structure of the government and its agencies. He says if you wanted to analyse government services from a service or process improvement point of view, you have the tools and the data to do so with ease.
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   Bruce says the next step is application integration.