The Document Lifecycle Management (DLM) Forum was created by an initiative of the European Commission in 1997, with the support of the national archives of the member states of the European Union. Until 2002, the DLM Forum was a collaborative effort that was led by the EU member states. and the European Commission. The DLM Forum then evolved into a wider community of stakeholders in the field of archives (historical and active), documents and life-cycle management across Europe.
Since the third Barcelona Congress in 2002, the DLM Forum is now an independent body and accepts members from the public and private sectors. It now includes suppliers, end users, institutions and associations. The DLM Forum is a European center that defines standards and guidelines for the management of electronic information and electronic files.
At the present stage, this institution is one of the most basic bodies at European and international level in defining guidelines and standards concerning the management of electronic records. An illustrative example is that in 2001 the DLM Forum published the European model MoreQ (Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records). MoreQ2 was published in 2008. This standard describes and models the functional requirements for the management of electronic files and mainly focuses on the functional requirements of the electronic records management systems (Electronic Records Management Systems (ERMS).
The GAK is an active member of the European DLM Forum, participating in its scientific meetings with relevant speeches and scientific interventions. In the meetings of this body, which take place every six months in the country that has the EU presidency from time to time, in many cases in the past, the GAK participated with scientific staff.
Organizing the Document Lifecycle Management (Document Lifecycle Management) Forum Foundation in GAS
In June 2014, the General Archives of the State (GPS) organized, with great success, in the context of Greece’s withdrawal of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the meeting of the Forum for the Life Cycle Management / DLM (Document) Lifecycle Management) Forum Foundation
A brief overview of the above action follows from the following:
– Dates: June 10 and 11, 2014
– Venue: Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Amphitheater “G. Kranidiotis”
– Number of participants: 80
– Registered number: 124
– Participants: directors of national archives, senior executives of archival organizations, heads of companies, IT experts, heads of ministries, public administration officials, academics, professionals in the field (archivists, IT technicians, etc.)
– Number of speeches: 18
– Number of speakers: 24
– Invited listeners: Ephorate of the GAS, Academics, Ministers
The program and speeches of the meeting were the following topics:
– Electronic File Management Systems
– Electronic records, public administration and e-government
– Future of More
– Case Studies of Electronic Files Systems Management Applications
– File management and new technologies
– e-ark project
The host country was represented in the program with a speech, on the topic “The challenges of the general archives of the state in the management of electronic files”. The text was edited by the archivists of K.Y. of GAK, Mr. Vasiliki Delegou, Eleni Mamma and Georgia Tsouri and presented by Mrs. Georgia Tsouri.
This meeting took place, with great success, given the congratulations of electronic and oral messages received by the Service, as well as, with the closing of the meeting, with the speech of the new President of the DLM Forum Foundation, Mr. Zoltan Szatucsek, Who congratulated the GAK, as a whole, for an organizational process and effort. A congratulatory message, by email, was also sent by the new President of the DLM Forum Foundation, Mr. Zoltan Szatucsek, and by the outgoing President of the DLM Forum Foundation, Mr. Jon Garde.