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I got one response - off-list - reproduced below with Frank's permission: --------------------- 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] --------------------- 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 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] 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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> 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> -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/