Further work on the stakeholder structure is needed, but will result in an expanded group of interested and involved individuals. During the past two weeks the functions, roles and services of a GILS has been discussed. This includes a commitment to make the service responsive to citizen expectations. This will ultimately allow interoperability between state GILS servers. It appears to provide accuracy in searching without burdening agencies with excessive indexing.
Further work is needed to refine the controlled vocabulary for classifying records by subject.
Other instances can be started for testing or even to support a specific target group with their unique attribute set. Within the 'Phil' instance, the training proceeded to explain the various options available to the administrator. Since the demo server just has Netscape's canned attributes, we saw how the application allows customization. We explored the java routine that supports customization of a 'subject tree'. This is an object that follows links in targeted servers, collecting the page information that is later indexed for searching.