Dear Colleagues,
Further to Brian's posting on the above, some members of the list may be
interested to know that the JISC Legal Information Service is running four
workshops on Freedom Of Information legislation and the implications for
FE/HE this Autumn with a further one or more in Scotland in early 2003.
Apologies for any cross-posting and to those of you who are already aware of
this.
The workshops include a session on Records Management. Both records
themselves, means of managing them and documents required by law such as the
Publication Scheme (under the Freedom of Information Act) are increasingly
likely to be in digital form and overlap with institutional websites.
Details of the Autumn workshops are at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/legal/events02/foi_0210.html
Booking form at: http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/events/jlis.html
The legal issues around Document Management Systems may be sufficient to
warrant a session at some future conference such as UCISA or IWMW 2003 or
one organised by ourselves.
Any feedback on this gratefully received.
Kind Regards
Ralph
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Kelly <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: Brief comments on recent UCISA MISG seminar on Document Management
Systems
> Last Friday (27 September 2002) I attended a UCISA MISG seminar on
> Document Management Systems - see
> http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events/2002/DMseminar_programme.htm
>
> The first speaker gave an overview of Document Management Systems and in
> one slide pointed out that without an organisational information
> strategy there was a danger that 'information islands' would develop.
>
> There then followed a number of case studies of use of Document
> Management Systems in MIS departments in UK HE institutions.
> Interestingly ALL of the case studies were based on licensed products
> (and the licence cost appeared to be significant in several cases, as
> this had restricted deployment across campus). Typically the case
> studies described applications for managing proprietary file format
> (e.g. images of expense forms). There was no discussion of open source
> alternatives, little mention of open file formats and little awareness
> of lock in to particular applications (e.g. URLs for resources had a
> proprietary application-dependent string, or resources only existed in
> backend databases).
>
> Interestingly 8 days prior to this seminar the UCISA SG organised a
> seminar on Open Source - see
> http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/sg/events-papers/opensource/birmingham_eve
> nt.html
> in which Paul Browning and colleagues described the Zope CMS.
>
> It seems as though there is a danger that we will continue to build
> information islands, with the academic IT services camp (UCISA SG)
> tending to go down the open source route and open standards and MIS
> departments using licensed software and proprietary formats
> (over-exaggeration I know).
>
> I have suggested to a number of people that there is a need for these
> two groups to get together. This may be an area we address in next
> year's Institutional Web Management Workshop.
>
> Note that I would see a need for liostening to both sides. The final
> talk of the day was on the implications of the Freedom of Information
> Act (Scottish version). In important areas like this you will probably
> find better support in licensed document management systems.
>
> Brian
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> Brian Kelly
> UK Web Focus
> UKOLN
> University of Bath
> BATH
> BA2 7AY
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
> Phone: 01225 38 3943
>
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