Literary Warrant
      Supporting Functional Requirements



      The Pittsburgh Project's advisory group of experts compiled the first draft of the functional requirements for recordkeeping, but they did not create the requirements in isolation. The requirements derive from the law, customs, standards and professional best practices accepted by society and codified in the literature of different professions concerned with records and recordkeeping. The Project compiled a compendium of statements drawn from authoritative sources of other professions that describe or explain the requirements of records or recordkeeping systems. The statements, or "literary warrant" are organized by profession and then by functional requirement. One can navigate from a particular profession, to statements drawn from its literature, i.e. standards, customs, professional sources, then to the functional requirement it supports. From the functional requirement, one can go to specific production rules or to the relevant metadata specifications.



      Warrant by Functional Requirements
      Warrant by Professions
      1. Lawyers
      2. Auditors
      3. Records Managers
      4. Information Technologists
      5. Managers
      6. Medical Professions


      Suggestions of additional materials for inclusion in the literary warrant are encouraged. Please send all citations to barata@sis.pitt.edu and they will be forwarded on for review.


      Last Modified: 9/18/96



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