Records Management Services

Community of Practice

Overview:

The Records Management Services undertaking has enjoyed a robust Community of Practice (CoP) since January 2005. The RMS-CoP centered on an Interagency Project Team comprised of 19 Federal Agencies which authored a thorough set of consensus requirements for the essentials of a Records Management Service. The community brought its requirements document to the Object Management Group (OMG) to use its community consensus process to develop a standard industry specification based on the requirements, expanding community participants from the government sector into industry and academia (through the broad membership of the OMG). The specification will be developed using the OMG's Model Driven Architecture.

The community has registered the Records Management Service Component with the Emerging Technology Subcommittee (et.gov) of the Architecture & Infrastructure Committee (AIC) of the CIO Council (CIOC).
News Notes:

[20090526] – OMG Government Task Force Workshop to Feature a Day on Records Management

There will be a two-day workshop in Arlington VA on 14 & 15 July 2009. The first day, keynoted by Kshemendra Paul, Chief Architect of the President's Office of Management and Budget will feature work they are doing in the OMG on the Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture.

The second day will be keynoted by Dr. Michael Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for Records Services, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration. The day will feature the Records Management Services specification which was led by NARA and other agencies on the RMSC-IPT

Register at http://www.omg.org/govdtf

[20070327] – OMG Records Management Services Specification under adoption

The NARA sponsored Records Management Services specification was approved by the Government Domain Task Force, the OMG Architecture Board, and has entered an eMail vote of the Domain Technology Committee (nominally a 10-week process). Assuming a successful vote the specification will be considered for final approval as an Alpha Standard by the OMG Board of Directors.

The specification is based on the RMSC IPT Functional Requirements.

RMS-CoP Meetings:

OMG Government Task Force Workshop

  • As mentioned in the news note to the left the OMG Government Domain Task force is holding a workshop. The second day (15 July 2009) is devoted to the RMS-CoP.

    http://www.omg.org/govdtf

OMG Technical Committee Meetings

  • Object Management Group (OMG) – The OMG's Government Domain Task Force has a roadmap of Records Management specifications led by member agency, the National Archives and Records Administration.

    Join us in developing these specifications.
     
  • OMG Technical Committee Meetings are held four times a year. The Government Domain Task Force meets at each of these meetings. Go to http://www.omg.org/ for the schedule of these meetings. The agenda for upcoming GovDTF meetings can be found at http://gov.omg.org/

RMS-CoP Workshops

  • The RMS-CoP is planning on holding small targeted workshops jointly with the GovDTF addressing Records Management Service
    • Deployment
    • Environments
    • Strategies
    • Cost/Benefit, Return on Investment
    • Needed Features
  • Stay tuned.
 

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