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Cambridgeshire Community Network

The Hug are working with Denis, the Histon and Impington webmaster, and Cambridgeshire County Council to allow Cambridgeshire parish council web sites which use Opus to integrate with the Cambridgeshire Community Network.

Essentially what you need to do is to include certain meta tags in the header of each page so that they then conform to the e-Government Metadata Standard. This is easy to do in Opus, you just put them in the templates, and to make things easier you can use an include file.

Here's the one used on the the Milton parish council web site:

<!--(
This is the head section for all the default templates

With added eGMS/CCN meta tags
)-->
<title><opusfield name="paper"/>: <opusfield name="title"/></title>

<meta name="Title" content="{opusfield name="paper"/}: {opusfield name="title"/}">

<meta name="eGMS.Creator" content="MPC\{opusfield name="authorcode"/}">
<meta name="eGMS.Title" content="{opusfield name="paper"/}: {opusfield name="title"/}">
<meta name="eGMS.Date.Valid" scheme="ISO8601" content="{opusfield name="dateexpires" ifnull="2099-12-31"/}">
<meta name="eGMS.Subject.Category" content="{opusfield name="auxfield1" ifnull="government.councils.local.parish"/}">
<meta name="eGMS.Publisher" content="Milton Parish Council, 84 Coles Road, Milton, Cambridge, CB24 6BW, +44 1223 861447">
<meta name="eGMS.Coverage.Spatial" scheme="Cambridgeshire_Placenames" content="Milton">
<opustest name="printable" condition="Y">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">
</opustest>

<link rel=stylesheet href="{opusfield name="cssurl"/}" type="text/css">
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="{opusfield name="baseurl"/}php/img/opus.ico">

<link rel="alternate" title="Milton Village News" href="/news.rss" type="application/rss+xml">
<opusfield name="breakframe"/>

Save that as head.inc.html and place this file in your paper's directory (probably ./php/web) and it will then be used in place of the default ./php/def/head.inc.html by Opus[1].

You will need to edit it to replace:

  • eGMS.Creator with something appropriate, perhaps just replacing "MPC" with the initials or name of your parish council.
     
  • eGMS.Publisher with the contact details of your parish council.
     
  • eGMS.Coverage.Spatial with the appropriate entry from the Cambridgeshire_Placenames scheme. You need to obtain this from the County Council.

We are using auxiliary field 1 to store the eGMS.Subject.Category and we are hoping to agree a subset of the master list with the County Council soon. More on this as things progress.

Notes

[1] This is assuming you are using the default templates. If you are at the level where you are creating your own templates then you will be able to decide how you incorporate the meta tags into your templates, but we would suggest that using a common include file for all templates is still the easiest way.