Guidelines for Managing Electronic Documents in Australian Government Agencies - request for comment

A copy of the draft "Guidelines for Managing Electronic Documents in Australian Government Agencies" is available on the Internet at: http://www.tomw.net.au/edg1301.html

Those without a HTML document browser can send a message to "listproc@www0.cern.ch" with "www http://www.tomw.net.au/edg1301.html" in the body of the message. A text version of the document will be sent back. Please note that this is an experimental service provided by CERN.

Comments on the Guidelines are invited. The Information Exchange Steering Committee - Electronic Data Management Subcommittee, which prepared the guidelines, will consider this draft on 24 January. It is planned to release the finalised Guidelines in May 1995.

Please address comments to the content of this draft, not formatting issues. A number of tables, appendices, figures and "recommended actions" are yet to be incorporated in the report. Also the conversion of this draft to HTML was done in some haste.

Please note that comments which suggest wording to improve the guidelines will be most valuable. Comments which only suggest some fault in the guidelines, without suggesting a correction, will be of less value.

This is the last scheduled work item for the subcommittee and the committee will be dissolved on completion of this task. Suggestions for new work items cannot be considered, but can be forwarded to the IESC for consideration of possible future subcommittees.

A "Pocket Guide to the Management of Electronic Documents in the Australian Public Service" is also available, at: htpp://www.acs.org.au/~tomw/edocs/edocgd.html

ABOUT THE IESC:

The IESC is an advisory body, responsible for providing guidance to Commonwealth agencies on policies and strategic directions relating to Information Technology and related issues, including telecommunications. For further details of the IESC contact Max McGregor (e-mail: max.mcgregor@finance.ausgovfinance.telememo.au, ph: +61 6 263 3553, fax: +61 6 263 2276).

Please send your comments to:

Tom Worthington
Chair of the IESC Electronic Data Management Subcommittee
& Senior Policy Adviser, Information Management Strategic Planning
Communications and Information Systems Engineering Branch
Department of Defence
Room APW2-1-06, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
e-mail: tomw@adfa.oz.au
Fax: +61 6 2666758

Home page: http://www.tomw.net.au/

20 January 1995

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