What a content designer does in alpha
What a content designer does in alpha
Kaitlin D'Avella explains what content designers do in the alpha stage of a project.
Metadata: a thin line between love and hate
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Andrew Newman, Head of Data & Information Access, Posted on:
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Data Transformation
Over the last 18 months I've been building a new Data and Information Access team in Defra. The team brings together data sharing and library functions.
Maintaining catalogues of good quality metadata is critical to them all. But over the last few months I've come to realise I have a love/hate relationship with metadata and the hate is winning.
Climate change: are ICT and digital services part of the solution or the problem?
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Adam Turner, Government and Defra Sustainable Technology Lead, Posted on:
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ICT sustainability
To mark the launch of the Greening government: ICT and digital services strategy 2020 to 2025, Adam Turner explains about this publication, the journey so far and how sustainable ICT is part of the solution, as well as the problem, when tackling climate change.
'A great place to come to, and a great place to move on from': the delicate act of balancing talent acquisition with retention
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Lynne Roberts, Head of User Centred Design, Posted on:
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Defra digital, User centred design
To mark Global Talent Acquisition Day, Lynne Roberts, Head of User Centred Design at Defra Digital, explains the challenges and rewards involved with recruiting and retaining the best people and how she has had to develop and empower her managers to be adept recruiters too.
Harnessing the power of PowerApps
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Paul Shaw, Principal Developer and Jim King, Principal Developer, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Software tools
Paul Shaw and Jim King (software developers) explain how Defra is using ‘PowerApps’, a low code digital development tool, to meet one of the many challenges facing government departments due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Hooked: how automation is making it easier to renew your rod licence
To mark Fishing Month Haroon Tariq, from the Defra Digital ‘I Want to Fish’ service team, explains how renewing your rod licence is now easier than ever following the recent automation of the licence expiry notifications process.
The ‘virtual’ reality of Civil Service Live
Civil Service Live is the key learning and networking event of the calendar for UK civil servants. This year the event moved completely online. Lianne Bailey, a Senior User Researcher in Defra Digital, was one of many who ‘joined’ this week’s two-day virtual event.
Sustainable IT for the Defra group: more than just an ambition
Today (14 July) we are proud to be launching our new Defra group sustainable IT strategy.
Making it easier to access and use earth observation data
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Andrew Newman, Head of Data & Information Access, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Earth Observation, Open data
We've opened our new Earth Observation Data Service to users across Defra. This data has the potential to change our understanding of the environment. Andrew Newman explains how this is working and how we are making this data openly available.
Chloe in the community: a volunteer’s ‘lockdown’ story
Volunteering has been a release and source of comfort for many during lockdown, both for those volunteering and for those needing help and support.
To mark this year’s Volunteers' Week, one of our user researchers, Chloe Westerman, describes her experiences of volunteering during the past couple of months.
Content is for everyone: how we’re making Defra’s GOV.UK webpages accessible to all
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. When it comes to the web, accessibility means making online content usable by all. It’s a subject close to the Defra content team’s heart.
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