I have been interested in technical documentation details for a long time. Separation of content from layout is just as important with documents as with software development and I have been keeping an eye on formats as they emerge and become accepted. A short time ago, the ITS department presented a road-map for the near-future, a lot of which I was disappointed with. In an effort to get involved, I started asking questions relating to compliance with the Public Records Act 2005. After a short number of steps, I accepted an invitation to join a committee overseeing said compliance.

There is a fair amount of documentation to go through and probably a lot of discussion needed to keep all players in line with the requirements. My hope is that the end result will be a relatively transparent process that helps the work that we are doing, rather than getting in the way.

Since there does not seem to be a lot of information regarding the PRA and software development projects, I will probably add notes here along the way.