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Background:
A joint US Government Agency document on Records Management RMS Functional
Requirements was published 7-Dec-2005. The document was formed by
the consensus of 18 US Cabinet and Department Level Agencies and coordinated by the
US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The OMG
Government Domain Task Force has created a work item to create a
specification based on this document and other community inputs.
These Functional Requirements are based on fundamental archival
theory and accepted best practices in Records Management. The intent
is to produce an OMG standard specification for RMS Services that is
applicable to industry and government use. (The term “government”
here is meant in its most general sense and is not constrained to
the US Government).
International and Regional government participation is being
solicited.
Objectives:
[excerpt from the RFP]
In performing their missions, Government agencies produce records
that document and support agency processes, activities, and
decisions. Agencies must manage these records from creation through
final disposition as integral assets to Government operations. The
failure to manage records effectively exposes agencies to
considerable risks to business operations and mission success.
This RFP requests proposals for models for automatable services
to support records management activities. The scope of the services
to be modeled extends from record receipt, identification and
capture to record disposition. Following the OMG MDA framework,
models are requested that describe the business activities the
services are to support (CIM), specify the logical service
interfaces and functionality (PIM), and define at least one
technology-specific implementation of the services interfaces (PSM).
Schedule
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Event or Activity |
Date |
Status/Notes |
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Approval
of RFP by Architecture Board
Review by TC |
20060605 |
Completed |
|
TC votes
to issue RFP |
20060630 |
Completed |
|
LOI to
submit to RFP due |
20061129 |
Completed |
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Initial
Submissions due and placed on OMG document server
(“Three week rule”) |
20070305 |
Completed
Initial Submissions Received |
|
Voter
registration closes |
20070323 |
Voting
List is Closed. |
|
Initial
Submission presentations |
20070326 |
Completed
28-March-2007 in the GovDTF Plenary in San Diego, CA |
|
Preliminary evaluation by TF |
|
LOI's
Re-opened |
20080707 |
Completed |
|
LOI to Submit Due |
20080801 |
|
|
Initial Submissions due and
placed on OMG document server |
20080825 |
Four week rule for Orlando |
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Initial Submission
presentations |
20080923 |
GovDTF Plenary, Orlando |
|
Initial Submission Review & Comment |
20080923 |
GovDTF Plenary, Orlando |
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The normal schedule of move for issuance
will be kept, i.e., there will be no vote-to-vote in
Orlando and a Revised Submission date will be
established for the Santa Clara meeting in December 2008.
(The schedule will be formally changed by task force
vote in Orlando, and the following will be updated) |
|
Final evaluation and selection
by TF.
Recommendation by the GovDTF to AB and TC. |
|
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Approval by Architecture Board
Review by TC |
|
|
|
TC votes to recommend
specification |
|
DTC Electronic Vote Begins
Takes nominally 10 weeks |
|
BoD votes to adopt
specification |
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Next Board Meeting after
Orlando and completion of the DTC Vote |
Related Documents
- Functional
Requirements, Attributes, and Unified Modeling Language Class
Diagrams for RMS
This document consolidates the original Dec 7, 2005 document (gov/2006-03-01)
with its Mar 17, 2006 erratum (gov/2006-04-03)
and a Jun 30, 2006 Addendum (gov/2006-06-14).
It has been approved by the 19 agencies which approved the
original. It contains the textual requirements and a UML model
of those requirements (including a mapping from the UML to the
text).
- The UML Model of the RMS Requirements is available in Sparx
EA v6.1 format at
gov/2006-09-14.
- An XMI v1.3 Sparx EA v6.1 export of the model is available
at gov/2006-09-15
-
DoD 5012.2 STD -- "Design Criteria Standard for Electronic
Records Management Software Applications," 19-June-2002
- ISO 15489, "Information
and Documentation -- Records Management"
- This Standard is available for purchase at the indicated
prices per part at
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CombinedQueryResult.CombinedQueryResult?queryString=15489
Contact your country's ISO organization to purchase the standard
in your local currency.
- ISO 15489-1:2001 "Part 1: General" -- $96.00 USD
- ISO 15489-2:2001 "Part 2: Guidelines" -- $132.00
USD
(makes you appreciate the truly open, i.e., "free to the
public", specifications of the OMG, doesn't it?)
Activity History:
07-July-2008 –
The Letters of Intent List was re-opened in a GovDTF Teleconference.
The minutes are at
http://doc.omg.org/gov/2008-07-01. The new list closure date is
1-August-2008, and the Initial Submission Date is 25-August-2008
28-March-2007
Initial Submission,
gpv/2007-03-03, was
reviewed by the GovDTF plenary during the OMG Technical Committee
meeting in San Diego, CA.
5-March-2007 –
Initial Submission Received,
gpv/2007-03-03
30-June-2006 –
The RFP was issued by the Domain Technology Committee during
its Plenary at OMG's Boston Technical Committee Meeting. Letters of
Intent are now being solicited as Submission Teams are forming.
25-April-2006
– A GovDTF meeting is
planned for the OMG TC Meeting in St. Louis, MO (24-28 April 2006).
The principal work item is this RFP. The goal is to issue the RFP in
the Boston TC meeting at the end of June 2006.
31-March-2006
– The RFP Kickoff
Meeting was held at the Fairlakes Hyatt in Fairfax, VA in
conjunction with the OMG Services Oriented Architecture Workshop.
The workshop was well attended by over 50 representatives from
Government and Industry. Twenty government participants attended
representing eleven US Federal Agencies.
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