The National Archives and Records Administration [NARA] is pleased to
announce the publication of the Interagency Project Team's "Functional
Requirements, Attributes, and Unified Modeling Language Class Diagrams
for Records Management Services,"  (September 7, 2006). This report is
available at http://www.archives.gov/era/rms/rms-documents.html.

Beginning in January of 2005, NARA sponsored a series of collaborative
sessions of agency records management and enterprise architecture
stakeholders from eighteen cabinet, executive department, and
independent agencies to identify and prioritize functional requirements
for software services that can support records management business
functions.  The stakeholders identified seven core records management
services: Record Capture, Provenance, Category, Authenticity, Case File,
Disposition, and Reference. Delivering these through services makes the
records management functions available within the creating environment
instead of using a separate application to carry out records management.
Records Management Services are not intended to replace DoD-certified
Records Management Applications but to work together with them to
effectively manage electronic records.
 
NARA is currently working to make the requirements available for
Federal agency use through CORE.gov and is monitoring the Object
Management Group's work to create an industry specification that will
integrate these functions into commercial software products. See:
http://gov.omg.org 

 
Nancy Allard
Senior Policy Specialist
Policy and Planning Staff
NARA
301-837-1477
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