DIRKS Tools
The methodology provides a framework to:
- establish a business case for record-keeping;
- develop a business classification scheme that identifies, labels and defines the unique functions and activities of an organization;
- construct an agency-specific functions thesaurus;
- compile a functions-based records disposal authority for records unique to an agency;
- compile a general disposal authority for records relating to common administrative functions;
- adopt appropriate metadata standards for control and retrieval of records; and
- design or select records management software products and other electronic business information systems that meet an agency’s requirements to create, control, retrieve and dispose of records.