APLAWS was one the 25 funded Local Government Online (LGOL) Pathfinder Projects, which aimed at exploring and developing new ways of implementing e-government. The APLAWS Pathfinder developed an open source Content Management System that can be freely adopted by any local authority in the UK. The project also focused on delivering Web Standards relating to navigation, metadata and accessibility.
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Camden | Newham | Lewisham | Harrow | Bromley | RNIB | Age Concern | GLA | Sun | Oracle | Red Hat
The London Borough of Camden provided Programme Management for the project. A major part of this role was supporting partner authorities working with the system.
The London Borough of Newham led on the Information Architecture workstream to develop standards relating to the organisation of the site, its navigational structure and search systems
The London Borough of Lewisham led on developing metadata standards as part of the project and specifically the "content types" for the underlying database, working closely with the architecture stream and the Office of the E-Envoy.
The London Borough of Bromley, together with the RNIB and Age Concern, led on developing base accessibility standards upon which the architecture of the APLAWS system was built: accessibility, usability and language. The workstream worked closely with the architecture work stream, community groups and engaging with National and International standards (e.g. RNIB, WAI) to get APLAWS accessibility standards adopted as a key input into accessibility considerations for Local Authority websites
The London Borough of Harrow led on the dissemination strategy and worked with Vantagepoint in National dissemination. Part of this work was to work with this project website with information about the APLAWS project
The GLA sat on the APLAWS Programme Board, with a particular interest in the roll-out and implementation of APLAWS to other London authorities.
The initial APLAWS systems all used Sun hardware. Sun is responsible for enabling the delivery of integrated solutions, from IT architecture to day-to-day operations - and assisted with supporting some of the training during the project
Oracle is the underlying database for the APLAWS project. As a partner they attended the Programme Board meetings and assisted with facilitating inter-authorty meetings
Red Hat's role was to develop and implement the core system functionality for the APLAWS website according to the common requirements of the other work streams