Each gateway serves a particular community and therefore there are some differences in the quality issues applicable to each. It is anticipated that this document will be a working paper. Sites purely describing personal experiences or personal opinion are excluded. This includes the home pages of relevant commercial organisations, such as food producers. Individual resources available from the home page of an organisation, such as a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, would be evaluated and described separately.
Pure advertising is excluded.
However, the home page of a commercial organisation would be included where it fits within the scope of the gateway. In addition, resources available from a commercial site, such as the catalogue of a publisher or an interactive teaching resource, would be included where a useful service of relevance to the gateway's audience is provided for free. Such examples would be evaluated and described at the individual resource level, indicating in the resource description who has produced the information. Material is excluded if it is strictly local in context. Material that is no longer available is excluded.