Navigation Guide

Through the heading that is found at the top of the contents of the web browsing / results pages. Identify through the axis, topic and subtopic the informative content in which we find ourselves.

The portal of the Community of Madrid has part of its content in English, corresponding to 'Culture and Tourism' and 'Investment and Business'. The menu that allows the selection of languages ​​is found in the header, upper right margin:

To view the version of the portal in English, you must select "EN".

Currently, the user of this website has two search engines:

1, The general search engine, accessible at the top header of all the pages of the portal. It allows you to search in the contents of community,madrid and, at the same time, search in other portals such as, for example, the portal of the BOCM, the portal of citizen or the portal management and procedures, among others. 

2. The faceted search engine, accessible from the home page and the pages of the main topics (Health, Education, Employment, etc.). The faceted or reasoned search  allows to find elements or contents restricting the global set of results through multiple criteria or facets. Allows to obtain short lists of results from the properties or tags of the portal resources. This search engine searches the contents of the portal community.madrid.

How the search engines work

To search the contents of this portal, the search engine called Solr is used, which analyzes the words and filters entered, applies syntactic rules of the Spanish language to calculate the roots or lemmas of the words searched for, eliminates words that do not contain meanings and therefore do not contribute to the search and enter synonyms to decide what content should be returned as search results. When deciding which content matches the search is more important and, therefore, should be shown first, it performs a series of operations that depend on the type of search engine and are detailed below.

General criteria for ordering results

In general, all search engines will take into account the following criteria to decide what content to offer and in what order:

• The content must contain the searched words
• It is not the same that the searched word is found in the title of the content or that it is found at the end of the body of the content. In general, content is considered to be more important if it contains the searched word in the title than if it contains it in the lead; Likewise, content that contains the word searched for in the intro will be considered more important than if it is contained in the body.
• The frequency of a word (the number of times a word appears in content) is important but not as important as in other search engines.
• The rarer a word is in the content, the more important the content containing it is (Inverse Document Frequency)
• Content size. The smaller the fields (such as the title or the body of the content) in which the searched word has been found, the more important it is to have found it. For example, if the word we are looking for is found in the title of two contents, but in one content the title consists of two words (one of which is the one we are looking for) and the title of the other content has a size of twenty words, the most important content is the first.
• If in one content the exact word has been found and in another content a word has been found that has the same root, or contains the word in the plural, or with another gender, the first content is more important.
• If the exact word has been found in one content and a synonym has been found in another content, the first document is more important.
• If you are searching for several words, the content in which those words are close to the content in which those words are far away in the text is more important.

Sorting in the activity search engine

• Those activities that are in the Coming Soon status (have not yet started) or the term for registering the activity is open are more relevant than those other activities that have already started. The activities that have already finished are the least important.
• Short activities are more important than long ones
• The activities that start in the next two days are more relevant
• The activities whose registration period ends tomorrow are more relevant.
• In case there is no other criteria, they will be sorted by start date and end date of the ascending activity, in such a way that those that are about to start or finish are displayed first.

Sorting in the center finder

• In case there is no other criteria, they will be sorted alphabetically.

Ordering in the news search engine

• In case there is no other criteria, the most recent news will be prioritized.

Some of the protocols supported by this website are:

• Dublin Core
• Open Graph
• Twitter Cards
• RDFa

In such a way that the metatags generated by this website are compatible with Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, etc.

It has been validated using the tools of Facebook y Twitter.

RDFa and Schema.org support

The following types have been defined following the recommendations of schema.org:

• Activities have been modeled as types Events.
• News has been modeled as type News Article.
• Government Agenda events have been modeled as types Events.
• Centers have been modeled as types Place
• Press conferences have been modeled as types VideoObject
• The videos have been modeled as types VideoObject
• The general information contents have been modeled as types Aarticle

The structured data has been validated using the tools of Google y Linter.

The Madrid community platform shares data in different formats:

• RSS: Data sharing in RSS format can be located at this page >

The contents of the portal www.comunidad.madrid they are maintained by more than 600 editors organized in Web Offices. Each Web Office is made up of a group of people from the same Ministry, who are in charge of writing and publishing the content and services under their area of ​​responsibility. All information and service writers follow these guidelines:

• Simplicity and usability, so that the texts facilitate the location of the most significant information.

• Avoid administrative language, writing in a close language, neither excessively colloquial, nor too formal, avoiding in any case legal terminology, which is excessively technical, or reference to regulations that is not essential.

• Headlines descriptive, simple, direct and with keywords.

• Apply the inverted pyramid model by first writing the conclusions, to continue with the supporting information and finish with the context information.

• Short and direct paragraphs, they must contain a single idea, without subordinate phrases, circumlocutions or cumbersome and unnecessary paraphrases.

• Use prominent elements such as links, multimedia content, sidebars...

• Short sentences in short paragraphs, no more than 100 words, or about 5 or 6 lines.

• Word economy, instead of “as soon as possible” and “on the day immediately before, as soon as possible and yesterday.

• Strong verbs, "clarified" instead of "made the clarification".

• Information on services, the priority is to provide information on services or procedures, not on the administrative structure of the Community or those responsible for its different areas.

Below is the style book used to implement the portal. The style book is subject to modifications according to the evolution of the portal, so this document will be updated periodically.

The style book used for the portals of the Hospitals is also shown.