Several public administrations in Greece are considering to use Scriptum, an open source document management system built for and used by the office of the country's Deputy Prime Ministers, according to developers involved in the project. The developers expect to release the second version of Scriptum sometime this week.
According to Nikos Roussos, a consultant for the Greek Free/Open Source Software Society, the open source document management system is attracting interest from the Prefecture of South Aegean, several municipalities including Naxos Cyclades and Karpenisi, and organisations involved in Greek education. "Some public administrations are testing Scriptum, but others are waiting for the 2.0 version of Scriptum, which we plan to unveil this week."
Roussos recently talked about Scriptum in a workshop organised by the Association of Engineering, Computer and Information of Northern Greece.
Scriptum, built on top of the open source document management system Openkm and the open source Java application server Jboss, is used in the office of the Greek deputy prime ministers. Here it assists in managing emails and attachments. According to the Scriptum's website, it helps to complete forms relevant to the incoming and outgoing email, to create letters from templates and to maintain a document repository equipped with document based security.
A second aim of Scriptum is to offer a work flow for documents that fits the organisation. The software is developed in part by UIT, an open source IT services provider and hosted in the public repository of Greek Free/Open Source Software Society.
More information:
Report on Roussos talk at Osepa
Report on Roussos' website (in Greek)
Scriptum