Content Standards

Disaster Risk Gateway Content Standards

These standards are to ensure that all pages in Disaster Risk Gateway are consistent, accessible and maintainable supporting usability to the target audiences (researchers, decision-makers, educators and students) and compliance with accessibility guidelines.

Page Content

• Page name
  • Use clear, descriptive titles that capture the topic (e.g. Mult-Risk Assessment Guidelines' instead of Guidelines)
  • Avoid abbreviations unless widely recognised
• Metadata requirements:
  • Publication year: year the approach (tool, method etc.) was published
  • Access: select if the source is open or paid access
  • Link: add URL to the approach being written about
  • Authors: full list of authors who developed/published the approach
  • Organisation(s): use if the approach is authored by organisations rather than individuals
• Description
  • Must be **non-technical** and written in plain English (up to 350 words)
  • Avoid jargon; explain technical terms
  • Define any abbreviations
  • The description should be referenced where necessary
  • The description should be original text and not directly copied from anywhere. It should also be sourced from open source information (e.g. the abstract of a paywalled journal).