Sunday, December 18, 2005

Getting Organized Sunday afternoon, del.icio.us is down for emergency maintenance, and I want to remember to read an account of getting organized over at OnLAMP at O'Reilly. One approach the author Karl Vogel tried was the Canadian Government's, which might be suitable for (parts of) a state government. Vogel wrote: "But Minister, it isn't like this film is the first troublesome thing to come out of Canada. Let us not forget Bryan Adams." "No, no. The Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions." --South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Canada took a stab at making a set of consistent categories for government records management called ARCS. It's a block numeric records classification system based on function and subject. Each functional or subject grouping of records is assigned a unique three- or four-digit number; this is a primary number, and it's the main building block for the system. The system uses these numbers to classify all information related to a subject or function, regardless of physical format. Most government offices deal with a similar set of administrative requirements, and the ARCS setup is a pretty nice representation. The documentation comes in PDF form and is very thorough. I made a directory tree suitable for web access based on this setup: Normal ARCS index Plain ARCS index Nicer ARCS index The plain-text categories file I used to generate the directory tree and indexes is here. The University of Calgary has a similar system more suitable for colleges and universities. This works better for administrative work than for something like my job. That's the quote above. In other cases like IT Service Management, I've found the Canadian or provincial government share some splendid resources. I plan to get back to this when I have a little time. This looks like a fun read too. 6:10:08 PM    comment [] Egovernment News ZDNET has a new area about egovernment at http://government.zdnet.com/?tag=govhlink In recent news about voting, includes: "After watching his computer expert change vote totals this week, Sancho said that he now believes someone on the inside did the same think in Volusia County in 2000." Leon County, FL election supervisor alleges fraud in the Bush/Gore election. "In Volusia County precinct 216, a memory card added more than 200 votes to George W. Bush's total and subtracted 16,000 votes from Al Gore. The mistake was later corrected during a hand count." 5:48:58 PM    comment []

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