Systemscope’s Linda Daniels-Lewis and Lindsay Fraser, along with Alexandra Freeland of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, presented a workshop at the ARMA NCR Spring Workshop Session in Ottawa. The workshop presentation gave a synopsis of CNSC’s E-Records Framework Project, begun in 2008, and their considerable head-way to date. Alexandra Freeland, CNSC’s Deputy CIO/Director Planning and Coordination (Information Management Division) explained CNSC’s original thinking regarding the project, project drivers, the approach undertaken and the various components of the overall project as well as specific information architecture pieces of the project.
Systemscope’s Lindsay Fraser (IM Practice Lead) and Linda Daniels-Lewis, Senior Information Architect on the project, also shared with participants the methodology and the various tools that were created for the project, in addition to a detailed discussion of the thinking that went into the planning and execution of the project. Key points covered included:
- Understanding and identifying e-records in all their various formats
- Establishing the requirements for managing an electronic record
- Examining the need for signatures and what constitutes an electronic signature
- Identifying which systems can and should be regarded as Systems of Record deserving of RM rigor.
- The key information architecture components required to manage records across multiple systems.
- Developing and using a “Business Information Relationship Model” to help identify those IA components.
Download the presentations: CNSC’s description of the E-Records Framework Project and Systemscope’s accompanying presentation on Architecting for the E-Record
