DLM Forum & MoReq2

DLM Forum Members Meeting Details

Please find below details relating to the DLM Forum Members Meeting, being held in Berlin on 25th and 26th April 2007.

The members meeting is being held jointly on the first afternoon, 25th April, with the INSTADA Conference, should you wish to join the INSTADA Conference please use their website www.instada.eu Please ensure that you register for both meetings independantly.

The programme for the DLM Forum Members Meetings is available to download here;

http://dlmforum.typepad.com/DLMForumMembersMeeting_Berlin_090207.pdf

Please complete the reply slip below as to your attendance, alternatively, please email Georgina Clelland directly mailto:[email protected] and register. Details of location and accommodation will be sent out upon registration.

http://dlmforum.typepad.com/ReplySlip_DLMForum_Berlin.pdf

New DLM Members

I am sure you will all join us in welcoming the following as new DLM Members;

• Direction des Archives de France
• General State Archives of Greece

We look forward to welcoming their representatives to our next meeting in Berlin

Next DLM Members meeting: Berlin April 25-26, 2007

Remember to mark your calenders for the next DLM Members meeting in Berlin April 25-26, 2007. More information to follow.

DLM Members Meeting Helsinki Nov 2006

• MoReq 2: Update from the European Commission, Jef Schram, Head of the Archival Policy Sector in the e-Domec and Archives Unit of the SG, European Commission
• DLM Forum Update – DLM Secretariat, Atle Skjekkeland, VP EMEA and Global Education Services, AIIM International
• Working Group Updates, Ian MacFarlane, Head of Electronic Records Management, National Archives of the UK
• Working Group Updates, Atle Skjekkeland, VP EMEA and Global Education Services, AIIM International
• International Evaluation of the Finnish National Archives Service – Recommendations on Electronic Issues, Raimo Pohjola, Deputy Director General, National Archives of Finland
• PDF/A – Format – status and practical experiences, Marc Straat, Head of Standards Development Europe, Adobe Systems Europe Ltd
• Open XML File Format – new innovations, new possibilities?, Thomas Myrup Kristensen, EU Policy Manager, Microsoft EMEA, Presentation not available at this time.
• Meeting the Digital Preservation Challenge: Three European Union Co-funded Initiatives, Seamus Ross, Director, HATII, University of Glasgow
• Semantic Web – For creating and utilizing collection metadata – from Infrastructure to practical applications, Eetu Mäkelä, Research and Project Leader, Semantic Computing Research Group, Helsinki University of Technology
• Requirements for the records management in Finland and the plans for long-time preservation system, Päivi Happonen, Development Manager, and Markus Merenmies, Development Manager, National Archives of Finland.
• An example of exploiting AMS (records schedule) in system design: Register of aliens (Directorate of Immigration), Sanna Reponen, Leading Consultant, Accenture
• Appraisal of Electronic Records in Specialized Task Systems, Eli Fure, Director of the Department of Modern Governmental Records, National Archives of Norway
• What is going on in the French National Archives for the long term preservation and reader service of the electronic records, Jean-Pierre Teil, Manager of the Electronic Archives, Centre des Archives Contemporaines, France
• Methods and experience of taking in, preserving and providing public access to databases, Kevin Ashley, UK National Digital Archive of Dataset, University of London Computer Centre
• ERM Standards in Denmark, Tom Bogeskov, Chief Advisor – Project Manager, National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark
• NARA’s ERA Programme, Hubert Wajs, Director of the Central Archives of Historical Records, Poland

Standards relevant for managing electronic records

There are a lot of standards available within Electronic Records Management, but we are also lacking standards in some areas, e.g interoperability. Press here to download a document we created last month listing some relevant standards for helping you manage electronic records: Download erm_standards_271006.doc

Please be aware that many standards such as Moreq and ISO 15489 covers many of the listed concepts but we have tried to only list them where most relevant using the structure from AIIM’s ERM Practitioner training program. This list of standards and resources is not complete and please inform me of any additional standards that should be included.

Moreq2 announcement

The DLM Forum is pleased to announce that Cornwell Management Consultants plc has been awarded the contract by the European Commission to define the next generation of the Model Requirements for Electronic Records Management specification, known as MoReq2. Since its release in 2000 the original MoReq, also developed by Cornwell, has gained widespread international recognition as the de facto standard for electronic records management (ERM) systems.

Cornwell Management Consultants plc is looking for volunteers to participate in the review process. If you wish to take part, Cornwell Management Consultants plc will invite you to contribute to the project as follows:

1. Contribute suggestions for MoReq2. From the beginning of the project, Cornwell Management Consultants plc will seek your views and ideas for MoReq2.

2. Review draft sections of MoReq2, returning comments. Cornwell Management Consultants plc will send you sections of the draft of MoReq2, and Cornwell Management Consultants plc will ask you to return any comments to them.

3. Help to resolve difficult issues. Cornwell Management Consultants plc may also write to you to ask your opinion on issues which are difficult to resolve. I expect this will happen rarely.

Naturally Cornwell Management Consultants plc hope that you will be able to represent your organisation's views in this way. Your views will be collated and considered alongside those from other interested organisations. All personal and corporate participation will of course be acknowledged in the finished specification.

The work will all take place this year, and will be mainly be e-mail, supported by telephone contact where necessary. All the work will be in English.

This is just an outline. More details are available at http://www.moreq2.eu. If you have any further questions about the MoReq2 project, please write to Cornwell Management Consultants plc (use the address [email protected]) or telephone +44 1372 456086 and ask for the MoReq team.