Structuring the e-Document Course

Previously I grouped 8 SFIA Skills for an Electronic Document and Records Management course at the ANU under three headings:

1. Strategy & architecture
   • Information strategy
     • Information management
     • Information policy formation
     • Information content publishing
2. Business change
   • Business change management
     • Business analysis
3. Solution development and implementation
   • Systems development
     • Data analysis
     • Database/repository design
   • Human factors
     • Usability evaluation

This is still too much to do in a six week course. The third heading was also a little too technical for this sort of course, so I dropped"Solution development and implementation".

This leaves:

1. Strategy & architecture
   • Information strategy
     • Information management
     • Information policy formation
     • Information content publishing
2. Business change
   • Business change management
     • Business analysis

Under these I have to fit the topics:

Somewhere in here I need to discuss:

1. Records Management
2. Metadata
3. Information Structures
4. Electronic Document Formats
5. Social Networking/Web 2.0/Gov 2.0
6. Implementation in Business

I could fit most of these topics under the SFIA headings:

1. Strategy & architecture
   • Information strategy
     
     • Information policy formation Module 1: Overview and Statement of Principles; Towards an Australian Government Information Policy
     • Information management Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems
     • Information content publishing Australian Government Recordkeeping Metadata Standard Version 2.0 National Archives of Australia page 13, Chapter 5 "5 FEATURES OF THE METADATA SET"
2. Business change
   • Business change management
     • Business analysis Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Records in Business Systems
     • recordkeeping risks associated with cloud computing
   • Electronic Document Formats:
     Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment Policy mandating of the Office Open XML, rather than the Open Document Format.
   • Social Networking/Web 2.0/Gov 2.0:The AGIMO Government 2.0 Primer; Online Consultation Guidelines; AGIMO Blog; govdex community

But e-Document Formats and Social Networking/Web 2.0/Gov 2.0 do not appear to fit anywhere in the SFIA scheme. This may be similar to the situation when I designed a Green ICT course and SFIA had no categories for such skills. SFIA responded by adding the categories, but it took more than a year from my making the request to implementation.