Parliamentary Officer - Hansard

Dates Present

April to October 2007.

Organisation

Office of the Clerk, House of Representatives, Wellington, NZ

Reported To

Senior Parliamentary Officer (Quality Assurance and Publishing)

Responsibilities

To assist Quality Assurance and Publishing staff with the regular production of Hansard productions including:

• Yellow and Green copies of speeches in the house
• Daily HTML copy of Questions for Oral Answer
• Weekly publication of Hansard transcript
• Four weekly bound version of Hansard

Specific duties included:

• Operation of computers for digital audio recording
• Use of Hansard Publishing System (HPS) for management to chamber jobs, turns, transcripts
• Generation of contents and index pages within HPS
• Producing HTML, PDF and XML documents for publication
• Publishing HTML pages to internet
• Sending PDF files to external printer
• Making marked up copy changes to compiled transcripts
• Distributing support documents to Hansard staff.

Technology Used

Microsoft Word, Excel and Access, Filenet, Adobe Acrobat, Altova XMLSpy, WS-FTP, HPS (Hansard Publishing System).