| Guideline | Assessment against guideline | Met |
|---|---|---|
| Open Standard | ||
| • Code base is available for re-use in a public common code repository under an open licence | Y | |
| • Content can be exported in a non-proprietary format from current platform to another platform | ||
| • Code is freely available (easy to access and available for no cost) | ||
| Strong and Robust Community | ||
| • Community is active and diverse | ||
| • Community is present in more than one region | ||
| • There is a governance model publicly available for how changes are made | ||
| • Technical roadmap is publicly available | ||
| Customizable | ||
| • Tool can be adapted to be used with existing and custom extensions | ||
| • Tool's customizability is competitive with market leaders in the same tool category (e.g., Web Content Management System) | ||
| Usability | ||
| • Meets or has the capacity to meet the Government of Canada Standard on Web Usability | ||
| Accessibility | ||
| • Meets or has the capacity to meet the Government of Canada Standard on Web Accessibility | ||
| Interoperability | ||
| • Meets or has the capacity to meet the Government of Canada Web Interoperability Standards | ||
| Mobile-optimized | ||
| • Optimized for mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets) or has the capacity to be optimized for mobile devices | ||
| Compatibility | ||
| • Code base is compatible with security tools | ||
| • Code base is compatible with analytics tools | ||
| • Code base is compatible with search engines | ||
| Ease of use | ||
| • Programming language and existing code base and extensions are easy to use | ||
| Performance | ||
| • Tool's performance (e.g., response time, display time, processing time) is competitive with market leaders in the same tool category (e.g., Web Content Management System) | ||
| Reliability | ||
| • Tool's reliability (e.g., uptime, infrequency of significant issues) is competitive with market leaders in the same tool category (e.g., Web Content Management System) | ||
| Scaleability | ||
| • Tool's scaleability is competitive with market leaders in the same tool category (e.g., Web Content Management System) |
CMS Extension
|Content and style| | | |• Must be built on the HTML5 framework| | | |• Must be built using Cascading Style Sheets| | |
Data Catalogue Extension
|Data Collection and distribution| | | |• Ability to collect large amounts of data in different formats| || |• Ability to distribute large amounts of data in different formats, including through an API | || |• Ability to customize metadata schema| ||