An Ontology-based Approach to Assessing Records Management Systems

Organizations seek to improve their records management (RM) systems to improve efficiency and meet legislative requirements. To achieve these two goals, evaluation of RM, which is normally done manually, is a necessity for every firm. In this paper, we design and evaluate an ontology that will help in evaluating RM systems. Building the ontology will be the first step in developing an ontology-based RM evaluation system. We argue that the proposed ontology-based RM evaluation system has promising features and benefits. Using this ontology will raise the efficiency of the evaluation process and facilitate sharing and communication of evaluation results.