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2.3 The VERS Standard
The work undertaken in producing the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy Report formed the basis of the first version of the VERS Standard. This Standard, 'Management of Electronic Records' [PROV3], was formally launched by PROV in April 2000.
One major difference between the recommendations of the VERS Final Report and the published requirements of the Standard. This was a reworking of the metadata that had to be captured by recordkeeping systems and included in the VERS Encapsulated Object. Towards the end of the technical investigation documented in the Report, the National Archives of Australia had released their metadata standard [NAA]. It was decided to adapt this metadata standard for a significant portion of the VERS metadata. This was primarily a pragmatic decision based on a decision that Australia was too small a market to support competing electronic records metadata standards.
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