The MoReq2010 consultation portal is now open.  This marks a crucial step for Moreq - the records management community is counting on full and meaningful collaboration to ensure that MoReq2010 meets everyone's needs - not just those of a vocal minority.  To help make this happen, go to http://contribute2moreq.eu/portal, register, and make your contributions.  Don't delay - the consultation may not be open for long! 

At the beginning, the portal contains only a little that you can comment on.  This will be added to gradually, so make a point of visiting the portal frequently.

The 2nd International Symposium on Information in a Changing World, to be held at Hacettepe University, Ankara (Turkey) in September will feature a paper entitled "An Evaluation of TS13298 in the Scope of MoReq2" (TS13298 is a Turkish standard).  The paper is by Gülten Alır, Thomas Sødring & İrem Soydal.  For more details click here.

Fins al 30 de juny de 2010 es poden enviar comentaris a la bústia del servei de coordinació de gestió documental sobre la versió catalana del Model de requeriments per a la gestió de documents electrònics (MoReq2).  Cliqueu aquí.

The draft Catalan translation of MoReq2 is now available for public comment.  The consultation is open until 30th June 2010.  Click here..

At the European Conference on Digital Archiving in Geneva last week, Jon Garde – Secretary of the European DLM Forum – called on the ICA (International Council on Archives) to collaborate with the DLM Forum on the further development of an international standard for electronic records management systems.  Full details here; video interviews and further information on our Press and Web page.

The DLM Forum has signed a contract for development of MoReq2010, a new and simpler version of MoReq.  This is a hugely signifcant event for MoReq.  We'll post details here as soon as we get a usable press release.  Why not subscribe to our RSS feed  to be notified automatically?

The DLM Forum today published an invitation for consultants and others to tender for the next stage in the evolution of MoReq. The work required is to make improvements to MoReq in a number of areas, in response to market pressures. This is an extremely significant step and positive step for the DLM Forum, and it follows agreement of the MoReq Roadmap at the DLM Forum meeting in Härnösand (Sweden) in November.  The closing date for responses is 18th January. You can download a copy of the invitation to to tender from the DLM Forum's website.

At its conference in Athens (Greece) in November 2009, EMC committed to work towards MoReq2 certification for its product Documentum.  A page of our Press and Web section is dedicated to this announcement.

The first MoReq2 certified electronic records management product was announced at DMS Expo in Cologne (Germany) today.  Fabasoft, headquartered in Linz, Austria, becomes the first holder of a MoReq2 compliance certificate.  Fabasoft Folio was certified for the mandatory "core" module and for six optional modules. This is an important landmark for the evolution of electronic records management systems (ERMS).  From now on, ERMS specifiers can require MoReq2 compliance in the confident knowledge that it is realistic; and ERMS vendors can press on with their compliance products knowing that it is achievable.  This will lead to much better ERMS projects and more successful implementations. For full details of the announcement click here.  A page of our Press and Web section is dedicated to this announcement.