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Multi surfacing dreamcore-v4
The document discusses a solution called "multi-surfacing" that was implemented for a large UK government department to consolidate disparate content from multiple sources and domains. The solution involved tagging content and mapping it to navigation nodes so that content could be pulled into different sections and domains while maintaining a consistent look and feel. This approach allowed the content to be restructured without large migrations and for content to appear in multiple places to be found more easily.
Multi surfacing dreamcore-v4
- 1. Multi-Surfacing – SeparatingContent from Navigation Developer TrackStephen Pope - Technical Architect - Eduserv
- 2. IntroductionStephen Pope –Technical ArchitectEduserv – Not-for-profit organization, fund initiatives for IT and educationFirst UK Sitecore partnerFirst time in Denmark :)
- 3. ProblemLarge UK governmentdepartmentLots of disparate contentSpread far & wideMultiple content typesMultiple audiencesMultiple domains and campaignsConsolidate yet retain Likely to change name or structure
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- 7. Advantages of thisapproachCentral store of content typesNavigation nodes deal with structure not contentArticles pulled into navigation using article metadataNavigation can be reworked at any point without large migrationArticles can appear in multiple placesArticles can appear across multiple domains
- 8. Multi-surfacing Keep eachsections look and feelMaintain “Google Juice”Persistent URIsWe had to take full control of the URLs in the system
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- 11. Keeping search engineshappy ..Canonical Link<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.blah.gov.uk/articles/french_exams" />Add to <head> tag of pages that are derivativesPreserves “Google Juice” – Fully supported by Google / Bing / Yahoo! etc
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- 13. DifficultiesLetting go –Site is dynamic and evolving.Default Context – When an item can exist anywhere where is its default home ?Editor Education – Writing content that is self contained.Strong taxonomy – Enough depth and breadth to ensure good quality tagging.
- 14. SuccessesTrue multi-surfacingAlready hadits first restructuring testSitecore is our Swiss army knifeMulti-surfacing is only part of the solution
- 15. Full SolutionEduserv WebFrameworkURL Routing Full MVC – All items/templates have a controllerIOC with CastleSpark View Engine replace XSLTFaceted SearchIntegration with open source projects such as Solr, CouchDB, Nutch and NServiceBusCustomized ELMAH modules
- 16. Thank you –Have a great time at DREAMCORE 2010Email : stephen.pope@eduserv.org.uk