Hi Records Managers!
I was wondering if any Records Managers in local government were aware of
the undertaking, largely by IT people it appears, of a 'categorisation',
which is essentially a Thesaurus or classification scheme, for local government
websites (including Freedom of Information and its associated Publication
Schemes) available from:
http://www.esd-toolkit.org/laws/
More information about the project can be found at:
http://www.laws-project.org.uk/index.shtml
As I understand it websites record many transactions and the associated
records will have metadata that use this scheme. As electronic documents
become more prevalent IT departments in Council's that accept LAWS will
force Records Managers either to classify their records accordingly, based
on subject, rather than function, which I personally find distressing, attempt
to merge two Thesauri (mapping synonyms etc.,) or deal with two systems!
How do other Council Records Managers feel about this? Has anyone been
consulted? Or has this debate already been conducted on this list (I'm
a newbie here!)?
All the best
Adam Pope
Records Manager
Camden Borough Council
Ph 020 7974 5643
Adam Pope
www.adampope.net
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