A reference architecture for records management

Abstract

Nowadays, governments are facing new opportunities to streamline their processes through e-Government initiatives. Although organizations already seek to manage their information through information systems, it is also essential to properly manage the records produced in business processes. But embodying requirements for Records Management into the organization's systems raises several organizational challenges. So there is a need to provide guidelines and methodologies that will help organizations to define records management requirements and apply records management policies and procedures. A Reference Architecture is seen as a way of discussing and describing domain-specific architectures for further practical reuse. As such, it could provide a comprehensive framework to incorporate records management requirements and assist organization's stakeholders through the challenge of developing records management projects.