Publications

In-Form's consultants are regular contributors to a number of industry related publications and standards, including MiD, Conspectus, Information Manager, Information Age. Our consultants present at most of the industry conferences and chair discussions. A small selection of the publications produced over the years is listed below.

  • Developing a Fileplan for Local Government: Classifying information is an essential first step to managing it. Classification puts information in context, supports browsing, allows retention policies to be applied and can improve security. Extended into a fileplan, it can provide a structure to support an organisations storage needs. Creating a fileplan can appear to be an enormous task. This paper looks at how to go about creating a classification scheme and fileplan and the issues involved.
  • This paper provides a guide to developing a Corporate File Plan
  • Microsoft FOI White paper Authored by IFC on the implication of FOI
  • Co-author of MoReq a European Commission project to develop an Electronic Records Management Model/Functional Specification MoReq that can be used by organisations in assisting in the selection of ERMS/EDMS systems, assess effectiveness of current Electronic Records Management practices and for educational use