FMS Specification Proposal

FMS Specification Proposal

Template: Specification Proposal Template

Proposed Name
REQUIRED

File Management (or Document Management)

Proposed Name
REQUIRED

File Management (or Document Management)

Status

SUBMITTED / ON REVIEW / APPROVED / DECLINED

(For use by the GovSpec Core Team only)

Date Submitted
REQUIRED

2026-02

Requestors
REQUIRED

Group to be defined

Building Block Type
REQUIRED

Feature

Building Block Proposal Description
REQUIRED

Citizens/businesses and government officials interact through government services that require exchange, submission, storage, and lifecycle management of documents and files. Especially in contexts of lower and mid digitized government processes, services still depend on citizens uploading supporting documents (certificates, forms, geospatial files, other evidence) and receiving output files (PDF certificates, reports). However, these capabilities are frequently implemented using external services or using file structures of an application/web page. These solutions don’t take into account the life cycle (e.g. updating) of the document by government officials (only accessible by admins of different services). Or they might not fulfil load and performance requirements.

Functions could be:

  1. Upload and validation of documents (PDF, image, geospatial and structured files)

  2. Metadata management (tags, classification, provenance)

  3. Secure storage with appropriate retention and access control

  4. Audit trails, versioning, and lifecycle handling

  5. Optional content processing: OCR, format normalization, PDF/A conversion

Open Question: Shall the BB only provide functions for government services to citizens or also for government internal processes?

Interaction with other Building Blocks
OPTIONAL

Interaction might be primarily with the service application

Existing solutions on the market
RECOMMENDED

Alfresco

OpenCloud

NextCloud

TrueSpace

OpenDesk (?)

Dinum (?)

Known APIs
RECOMMENDED

Open Cloud

Nextcloud

Existing related policies
RECOMMENDED

[Name] - [URL]

Known related standards
OPTIONAL

[Name] - [URL]