Written inquiries about the project should be directed to Richard Cox, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Work on the RFP will be completed by the first quarter of 1996. Project staff have also been engaged in developing electronic mail and office automation guidelines and standards. A description of the project is available at the U. of Pittsburgh website . Developing a Model for Public Institutions in the Electronic Environment.
Documents are available at the project website .
The project's goal is to examine the requirements in a particular framework and to evaluate them with an eye to their practical applications. Just entering its second year of operation, the project has generated an illuminating amount of detail. As these issues reflect current debate on the archivists role in defining a record in a recordkeeping system, they merit particular attention, especially as the conceptual model is elaborated in the next stage of the project. Overall, the website includes a wide variety of working documents from the project. Notable are the methodology statements that outline the process of implementing the functional requirements analyses, as well as the practice of collaboration with patrons and stakeholders in the process.