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Comments on the announcements at the DLM Forum on MoReq2010

James Lappin gives a report about the presentations at the DLM Forum: http://icio.us/fil8oY

“I attended the DLM Forum meeting in Budapest last week (May 12 and 13) at which Jon Garde announced that the core requirements of the MoReq 2010 specification had been finalised and would be published as a PDF on the DLM forum website within the fortnight following the meeting. It was possible that it might also be issued as a hard copy publication later in the year.
How the final version of the MoReq 2010 core requirements differs from the consultation version issued late last year
Jon Garde described the changes to the core requirements of MoReq 2010 since the
consultation version was released late in 2010. These changes included the adoption of a service orientated architecture for MoReq 2010, the dropping of the notion of a primary classification, and a reduction in the number of requirements.
# Adoption of a service orientated architecture model
All the requirement in the MoReq 2010 core requirements have been bundled into ten services. A MoReq 2010 compliant system will be capable of offering up its functionality as services, that could be consumed by one or more other information systems within the organisation.
For example several records systems within an organisation could all consume the classification service of one MoReq 2010 compliant system, enabling the organisation to hold its fileplan in one place whilst having it used by several systems.
A MoReq 2010 compliant system must possess the capability to provide ten services:
# a records service (the capability to hold aggregations of records)
# a metadata service (the capability to maintain metadata about objects within the system)
# a classification service (the capability to hold a classification, to apply it to aggregations of records, and to link headings within the classification to retention rules)
# a disposal service (the capability to hold retention rules, and to dispose of records in accordance with retention rules)
# a disposal hold service (the capability to prevent the application of a retention rule to a record, for example because the record is required in a legal case)
# a search and report service (the capability to retrieve and present records and metadata in response to queries)
# a user and groups service (the ability to maintain information about people and groups that have permissions to use the system)
# a role service (the ability to assign roles to people and groups to determine what those people and groups can and can’t do within the system)

system services (the capability to maintain event histories in relation to objects held within the system)
# an export service (the capability to export records together with their metadata and event histories in a form that another MoReq 2010 compliant system could understand)
Abandoment of the notion of a ‘primary classification’

The notion of a ‘primary classification’ for records (see my previous post) had been dropped. Instead a record will be assigned a classification, from which it would by default inherit a retention rule. It would be possible though for a person with appropriate permissions to override that inherited retention rule, and instead assign to the record a different retention rule, or to get the record to receive a retention rule from a different part of the classification scheme to the one it has been assigned to.

Reduction in the number of requirements

The number of requirements had been significantly reduced. The consultation draft had contained 436 requirements, these have now been consoldated into 170 requirements. But the final core requirements document would be longer than the consultation draft, because the introductory explanations had been increased to 90 pages.

Plans for the future development of MoReq 2010

The MoReq Governance Board has ambitious plans for the development of MoReq 2010, and regarded the publication of the core requirements as only the beginning. MoReq 2010 has a modular structure, and additional modules are planned that vendors may choose to submit their products for testing against.

The DLM forum are planning to have a first wave of additional modules for MoReq 2010 available by the time of their triennial conference (due to be held in Brussels in the week of December 12, exact dates/venues yet to be announced). Unlike the core requirements, the additional modules will be optional rather than mandatory.

Included in the first wave will be:

# an import service – providing the ability to import records and associated metadata from another MoReq 2010 compliant system. Note that the ability to export records is a core requirement, but the ability to import records is an additional module. This is because an organisation implementing its first MoReq 2010 compliant system does not need that system to be able to import from another MoReq 2010 compliant system.
# modules that provide backwards compatibility with MoReq 2
Backwards compatibility with MoReq 2 is important. One European country (the Czech Republic) has enshrined compatibility with MoReq 2 into records management legislation. The modules that will give backwards compatibility to MoReq 2 will be:
# a scanning module
# a file module (MoReq 2010 replaced the concept of the ‘file’ with the broader concept of an ‘aggregation’. The additional module would ensure that a system could enforce MoReq 2 style ‘files’ (which can only be split into volumes and parts). In MoReq 2010 terms a MoReq 2 file is simply one possible means of aggregating records
# a vital records module
# an e-mail module (the core requirements of MoReq 2010 itself talks generically about ‘records’ and do not focus specifically on any one particular format)

Note that a system could be MoReq 2010 compliant without being MoReq 2 compliant (because the additional modules that give MoReq 2 compliance are voluntary and not part of the core requirements of MoReq 2010). Any organisation that wanted MoReq 2 compliance as well as MoReq 2010 compliance would be able to specify that a product must be certified against those additional modules.

It is hoped that more additional modules would follow. Jon would like to see MoReq 2010 additional modules that cover records keeping requirements in respect of cloud computing, mobile devices and social software. He urged anyone who feels that there are needs that MoReq 2010 could usefully address to come forward and develop a module to address those needs. For example modules that provide functionality specific to a single sector (health sector, defence sector etc.).
There is also the possibility that modules could be written to specify the functionality required for a MoReq 2010 compliant system to also demonstrate compliance with a different standard or statement of requirements. For example a module could be written to ensure that a MoReq compliant system met all the requirements of the US DoD 5015.2 specification (which raises the interesting possibility of a European testing centre announcing that a system is compliant with the US records management specification).

Development of test centres

The MoReq Governance Board plans to accredit an international network of testing centres, to whom vendors can submit products for testing against MoReq 2010. Six organisations have already expressed an interest in becoming testing centres. There is no limit to the number of test centres that may be established. The test centres will use test scripts and templates created by the MoReq Governance Board. Vendors will pay a fee to the test centres to have their products tested, and (assuming they are successful) a fee to the DLM Forum to validate the recommendation of the test centre and to award the certificate.

As well as vendors submitting their products for testing, it would also be possible for an organisation to submit their specific installation of a system for testing. ” [end of citation from http://icio.us/fil8oY ]

Marc Fresko comments on this website www.MoReq2.eu:

STILL no MoReq2010
MoReq2010 was not published at the May DLM Forum meeting in Budapest, despite indications that it would be. Instead, there was an announcement that part of it would be published within a couple of weeks. Again. In practice this means we may see MoReq2010 some time in the second half of 2011. Quite an achievement for a product branded “2010″. [End of citation from www.MoReq2.eu ]

PROJECT CONSULT comments on the MoReq2010 launch: http://bit.ly/m7YhMW

“Der 12.05.2010 war für den offiziellen Launch von MoReq2010 auf dem DLM Forum Mitgliedertreffen in Budapest vorgesehen. So gab es auch im Programm mehrere Vorträge zu Zielsetzung und Inhalt, Marketing und Zertifizierung sowie Schulung und Train-the-Trainer-Programm.
In den Vorträgen zu MoReq2010 wurde auch über den aktuellen Inhalt referiert, der seit Abschluss der Public Consultation im Dezember 2010 noch einige wesentliche Änderungen erfahren hat. So wurden z.B. aus 346 Kriterien nun nur noch 170 Requirements. Neben wesentlichen inhaltlichen Änderungen macht dies nicht nur den Abstand zu MoReq2 sondern auch die noch nicht abgeschlossene Entwicklung der letzten Version von MoReq2010 deutlich. Diese Information gab es allerdings nur in den Vorträgen - die Spezifikation selbst war in Budapest nicht verfügbar. Das Dokument soll erst in zwei bis drei Wochen auf den dafür vorbereiteten Webseiten MoReq2010 und Moreq-Info veröffentlicht werden.
Dies führte bereits auf Twitter unter den Hashtags #MoReq2010 und #DLMForum zu Nachfragen. Auch in unserem XING-Forum “Information & Document Management” gibt es hierzu einen Diskussionsthread.
Aber auch andere Aussagen der DLM Forum Tagung dürften für die Community interessant sein. So stellt z.B. das Nationalarchiv Dänemark den PDF/A Standard als Langzeitarchivformat in Frage - “still too volatile”.
Es bleibt zu hoffen, dass zumindest die Vorträge schnell den Weg in die Öffentlichkeit finden.

Update am 18.05.2011
James Lappin hat am DLM Forum Meeting in Budapest vom 12.-13.05.2011 teilgenommen. Er berichtet über die Ankündigungen von Jon Garde, Rory Staunton und anderen zu MoReq2010. Die “Core Specification” ist fertig und soll nach Freigabe in den nächsten Wochen wie bereits von uns am 12.05.2011 angekündigt elektronisch veröffentlicht werden. Vielleicht gibt es sogar eine Print-Version von MoReq2010. Details sind hier in seinem Blog zu finden.
Aktuelle Infos gibt es immer unter dem Hashtag #MoReq2010 auf Twitter.” [ENd of citation from http://www.project-consult.de/ecm/news/2011/moreq2010_launch_budapest ]