I got one response - off-list - reproduced below with Frank's permission:
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Paul -
Not sure if this really answers your precise question but
interestingly I just received something from the CCLRC on their FOI
arrangements. It looks very thorough. See their website at:
http://www.foi.cclrc.ac.uk
Frank Norman, Librarian. National Institute for Medical Research
The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK
tel 020 8816 2227 fax 020 8816 2230 email [log in to unmask]
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I agree with Frank - it looks very thorough but doesn't apparently
do anything more than to provide a map (via a database lookup I guess)
to a pile of docments (which may be in any format). Is this all we need
to deliver a Publication Scheme?
I'm probably not asking this question in the right place. Today in
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there was an announcement of a "Technology Support for Data
Protection Compliance" meeting at UMIST, 4th April.
Paul
--On 12 February 2003 15:48 +0000 Paul Browning
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>>> Are you better equipped to deal with the FoI with a
>>> document management system?
>>>
>>> As ever an external threat is concentrating minds here ...
>>>
>>> Call me hopelessly naive but it seems to me that responding
>>> to the FoI involves two strands:
>>>
>>> 1. The stuff that goes in the Publication Scheme
>>> 2. The rest
>>>
>>> Presumably the Web is an important medium for delivery of
>>> the Publication Scheme? Which is why I'm asking the question
>>> in this part of the forest.
>>>
>>> Can't a content management system, with appropriate metadata,
>>> deal with No. 1? (The metadata saying "This goes in PS on
>>> such and such a date").
>>>
>>> I know I'm glossing over alot of detail here, but I'm just
>>> trying to get my head round the big picture and decide which
>>> bits of the problem might be amenable to the use of IT and,
>>> if so, what the most appropriate tools are.
>>>
>>> All advice and pointers to existing advice gratefully
>>> received. Meanwhile I'm reading
>>> <http://www.pro.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/standards/default.htm>
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