Approaches to EDRMS in local government
James Lappin
Posted on March 29th, 2009
I went down to Dorchester last Friday to speak at the March 20 meeting of the South West Group of the Records Management South West Group. The meeting was about Enterprise Content Management (ECM)/ Electronic Document and Records Management systems (EDRMS), but also included some very lively debates about SharePoint. At the meeting we heard about the innovative approaches two local authorities are taking to EDRMS/ECM. The different approaches of Local Government and Central Government to EDRMS Central Government sector set the lead for EDRMS in the UK. The main wave of central government EDRM implementations took place between 2001 and 2006. Local authorities started implementing EDRM later than central government, and have done so in a different way. The central government EDRMS model…