Risks

Risk

Rating

Mitigation/Rationale

New Zealand adopting a government metadata standard that leaves it out of alignment with the development of metadata at a global level.

Very low

NZGLS is an extension of Dublin Core for New Zealand government purposes. Dublin Core is the most widely used discovery level metadata standard globally. NZGLS has been quality assured by Dublin Core representatives.

NZGLS is based on Australian equivalent (the AGLS).

The NZGLS Standard is insufficiently flexible to be extended to meet agencies' specific needs.

Low

The NZGLS Standard has been designed so that agencies with their own specific metadata needs can add extra elements and qualifiers to the basic standard. This means that the standard can be extended.

Risk

Rating

Mitigation/Rationale

Agencies do not agree to the proposed NZGLS Standard.

Low

Extensive input from agencies across the public sector in development of the standard.

Agencies do not create a sufficient quantity of NZGLS-compliant metadata by June 2002.

Medium

• minute provides right incentives to agencies.
• will offer support to agencies responsible for a 'critical mass' of information and services essential to having a portal that New Zealanders will find valuable by June 2002.

EGU will closely monitor the progress of agencies in creating metadata and report to Cabinet before June 2002.

Costs exceed benefits

Low

The costs of compliance will reduce as agencies become more experienced in applying the NZGLS Standard. Information management will improve in the longer term, enabling more efficient use of taxpayers' funds.