Appendix A. Search Strategy
This Appendix sets out (in alphabetical order) a checklist of the topics that should be considered for inclusion in a search strategy.
- Accessibility
- Sets out the extent to which the search applications meet the Web Accessibility Initiaitives
- Acquisition
- The extent to which the search applications could be extended in an acquisition or merger situation
- Architecture
- Server and network architecture requirements and server availability
- Best bets
- The user requirements for best bets and how they will be reviewed and revised
- Big Data
- Integration of the search and Big Data strategies, especially around common metadata schemas
- Budget
- License costs, vendor maintenance and support, and staff costs
- Business cases
- Summary of the evidence from user requirements research to support and prioritize specific business cases, including the potential business impact
- Cloud search
- The potential benefits and challenges from implementing cloud (or hybrid) search
- Communications
- The communications strategy and forward communications program for stakeholders and users
- Connectors
- Requirements for connectors and associated support from suppliers
- Content analytics
- The extent to which the organization will benefit from implementing content analytics solutions and the relationship of these solutions to search
- Content quality
- Requirements for content quality and content curation to enhance search performance, ideally placed within an information life cycle framework
- Content scope
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