Public Record Office Victoria's video: Records Management Network May 2016: Rolling out a records management project

Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) hosted the latest installment of the Records Management Network (RMN) on Friday 6th May 2016. The event featured presentations from across Victorian Government and the private sector, focusing on records management innovations and improvements, predominately in the digital sphere. Lyn Morgan’s presentation (from the Transport Accident Commission (TAC)) ‘Resilience – the key to successfully rolling out a records management project’ highlighted how the TAC audited their information management practices, and overcame barriers to eventually implement an EDRMS. This was facilitated by an appointed project team, which was assigned after a retention and disposal authority (RDA; PROS 14/01) was issued in August 2014, for use by TAC, as well as a BCS being created. Lyn highlighted that it was difficult process, emphasising that good recordkeeping has benefits for the user, but that staff need to understand how the EDRMS will help them in their work. Each TAC workgroup’s records access requirements were sought to be met through the configuration of the EDRMS. Resilience and ‘a bit of mongrel’ were vital ingredients during the implementation process.