Design tactics
The DIRKS manual makes the point that as most education organisation s purchase common commercially available software, design tactics can be employed to build record keeping functionality around and between such applications. They provide a list of functional specifications that may be incorporated into a system design or considered when purchasing off-the-shelf applications.
If you are planning to implement a corporate EDRM solution then most of the design focus needs to go on ensuring that this solution will provide you with all the functions you need to support your education organisation’s record keeping requirements.
We are fortunate that the National Archives has produced a standard set of functional requirements for Electronic Records Management systems which cover all the electronic records management requirements you could have plus some of the active document capture and management requirements you may have. The latest version of the National Archives requirements was produced in 2002 and is available to download from their web site.
The options available to you when reviewing your requirements for an EDRM solution are reviewed in detail in step two below.
