Module 1 - Overview and Statement of Principles
Module 2 - Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems
Module 3 - Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Records in Business Systems
The aim of this project is to develop globally harmonised statements of requirements for software products used to capture and manage records in office environments. The ICA agreed to sponsor this project in 2005 in recognition of the fact that, while many individual jurisdictions have developed statements of requirements for ERMS software products, it is important for the international archives and records community to agree on a single generic set of requirements to foster cross-jurisdictional harmonisation and to help ensure that we communicate consistent messages to the global software market. In addition to harmonising existing jurisdiction-specific requirements for ERMS software, this project has also taken the important step of developing guidelines and requirements for managing records in business systems. This is in recognition of the fact that many important records are only ever managed in line of business systems, rather than dedicated ERMS systems, and that increasingly the developers and vendors of such business systems are recognising the importance of incorporating records functionality into their software applications.The three key audiences for these modules are:
1. Software developers and vendors
2. Jurisdictional standards setters
3. Organisations wishing to build or buy software products that will be used to capture and manage records in office environments.
In sponsoring this project the ICA has been pleased to work with the Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (http://www.adri.gov.au [1] ).
To enable comments to be considered by the project team at its next meeting in April, comments should be forwarded to
Adrian Cunningham, ProjectCoordinator at: adrianDOTcunninghamATnaaDOTgovDOTau (to use this email address replace the DOT and AT by the right signs)
by 31 March 2008
The drafts will then be revised, edited and translated for publication by the ICA in time for the ICA Congress in Malaysia in July. The International Council on Archives is pleased to publish for the information and comment of the international archives and records community, exposure drafts of three modules developed by an international project team working under the auspices of the ICA's Electronic Records Priority Area:
Module 1 - Overview and Statement of Principles
Module 2 - Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems
Module 3 - Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Records in Business Systems
The aim of this project is to develop globally harmonised statements of requirements for software products used to capture and manage records in office environments. The ICA agreed to sponsor this project in 2005 in recognition of the fact that, while many individual jurisdictions have developed statements of requirements for ERMS software products, it is important for the international archives and records community to agree on a single generic set of requirements to foster cross-jurisdictional harmonisation and to help ensure that we communicate consistent messages to the global software market. In addition to harmonising existing jurisdiction-specific requirements for ERMS software, this project has also taken the important step of developing guidelines and requirements for managing records in business systems. This is in recognition of the fact that many important records are only ever managed in line of business systems, rather than dedicated ERMS systems, and that increasingly the developers and vendors of such business systems are recognising the importance of incorporating records functionality into their software applications.The three key audiences for these modules are:
1. Software developers and vendors
2. Jurisdictional standards setters
3. Organisations wishing to build or buy software products that will be used to capture and manage records in office environments.
In sponsoring this project the ICA has been pleased to work with the Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (http://www.adri.gov.au ).
To enable comments to be considered by the project team at its next meeting in April, comments should be forwarded to
Adrian Cunningham, ProjectCoordinator at: adrianDOTcunninghamATnaaDOTgovDOTau (to use this email address replace the DOT and AT by the right signs)
by 31 March 2008
The drafts will then be revised, edited and translated for publication by the ICA in time for the ICA Congress in Malaysia in July.