Content needs to be contributed by all stakeholders from Groups/Divisions of STQC in a consistent fashion to maintain uniformity and concurrency of the contents. In order to present the content as per the requirement of the viewer, organize the content in categorized manner and to retrieve the relevant content efficiently, it is required to contribute the content to the website through a Content Management System which would be web-based having user-friendly interface.

The content on this website goes through the entire life-cycle process of Creation, Modification, Review and approval, Conent Uploading , Publishing, Expiry and Archival. Different Content Element area categorized as Routine or Priority.

Content Contribution & Management:

The website is CMS based having multi administrative control with its users located thought out the country at STQC lab/centre locations including STQC HQ at New Delhi. The content management matrix depicting the workflow for content Creation, modification, , Review and approval, Content Uploading Publishing is given below:

Content Contribution & Management Policy

Once the content is created or modified, it needs to be reviewed and approved prior to being uploaded and published on the Website. The moderation could be multilevel and is role based. If the content is rejected at any level then it is reverted back to the originator of the content for modification. Frequency of review of contents is at least one year or whenever the content changes.

Content Archival:

Each of the content element is accompanied by meta data, source and validity date. For some of the components the validity date may not be known i.e., the content is stated to be perpetual. Under this scenario, the validity date should be two years hence. Under no circumstances, any content is to be displayed on the Website after the validity date.

For few of content elements like tenders, vacancy, and training course schedules etc., only the live content whose validity date is after the current date is shown on the Website. For other content elements such as documents, schemes, services, forms, contact us etc., there is a need for timely review of the same.

For the retrieval of content which has expired, there is a need to archive the content. Government Websites, Forms, Services and Contact Directory which are discontinued should be expunged. The content Elements on the Website has different Entry / Exit criteria as Archival policy as enlisted in the following table :

Content Contribution & Management Policy