This newsletter concentrates on how an organisation might publish documentation both for its own internal purposes and for exposing information to the wider public. When we publish we make our work available to others to see. This is a most important part of any organisation's public interface. The control and presentation of material is a big issue for many organisations. For educational institutions it is critical.
Many organisations seem to have an ad-hoc policy on websites.
Some however, use strict guidelines on website content. The UK Government Website Standards give guidelines. Once you move to the specific areas of the government the style and format seems to vary with each different section of government. However all the sites seem to work together with respect to searching and indexing. This is because they use International Standards for Web Publishing and in particular use standard metadata to describe pages.