Introduction: who's sponsoring the project why electronic forms are useful (origin of project, brief mention of benefits) examples of physical forms which could be made electronic (time cards, travel vouchers, add/drop cards) scope of this paper (Demonstrate exploration, prototype, IS commitment) outline of remainder of paper, including appendicies Existing system: No coordination between different offices' systems. Benefits: faster, easier filling out of forms window cut-and-paste built-in help some entry-time data sanity checking data integrity / communication between different systems rapid movement of forms (no campus mail) easy access to blank and in-progress forms formatted input easier for external systems to handle Requirements: multi-platform with incremental additions of new platforms routing of individual forms through stops authentication (non-repudiation) formatted entry of data text numeric multiple-choice boolean access control per-field per-stop history and logging generic and extendable FDL RDL QDL? (Query language?) hardcopy output ability to query status of forms work within an existing infrastructure support for group form ownership statisticial logging ability to find interesting subset of forms built-in help migration path of old data onto new forms "Desirements:" Conditional routing Call out to external databases Protocol for connecting to DB's? Generic or specific? default values form layout (multiple-choice options?) data checking route changes depending on external DB's replies? Real-time notification Again, a protocol? Two-phase ownership: In queue, or taken. Issues: must find database cultural acceptance need non-DCNS champion (VP or department) understand community requirements ongoing user support Appendicies: glossary of terms used in this document example physical form bibliography to research papers on electronic forms references to existing Macintosh and other packages DMR-style data model diagram DMR-style process model diagram guide to notation used in DMR's data and process model diagrams DMR's definition of data and process modelling glossary of terms in DMR's definition of data and process modelling