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Hi all

Introductory note (since this is my first post): I've just moved from the British Library, where I was Head of Corporate Information Management, to the Scottish Executive in Edinburgh, where I am part of the Electronic Records & Document Management programme. My background is in IT and project management rather than records management.

Now the message:

I've been working on a short (well - 4-page) document whose purpose is to describe the products and policies needed to provide an information and records management structure within an organisation, and sets out the relationships between them: ie., taxonomy, metadata, fileplan, and the policies that underpin them.

Nothing in it is ground-breaking (in fact, you could say that if it is, it's wrong!), but I would be really pleased to have some review of the document and the thinking behind it. Some parts of it reflect a public sector/government point of view; and, although it attempts to be general with respect to uses of metadata, it does concentrate on, and take examples from, ERDMS practice.

If anyone wants a copy and might have a few minutes spare to review, comment or criticise, please mail me off list (since I can't find a way of uploading the file). As a quid pro quo, anyone who takes a copy and finds anything useful in it is welcome to use it for their own purposes.

Regards

Ben


Ben Plouviez
Benefits Realisation Manager
ERDM Programme
The Scottish Executive
J1 Spur, Saughton House
Broomhouse Drive
Edinburgh EH11 3XD

Telephone: 0131 244 8154
Mobile: 07984 527676
www.scotland.gov.uk