What is the difference between a publication scheme and an asset list?
A. A publication scheme covers published documents and often details documents in broad categories, e.g. minutes of meetings. Asset lists take this approach further, covering specific items and describing them so they can be identified individually by title and description of contents. For example: ’ minutes of Strategy Board Meetings’ is less specific than ’Minutes of Meeting of Strategy Board on 16 December 2005 ’ as part of a list of all meetings. A publication scheme is required under FOI legislation; asset lists are similarly necessary under the PSI Regulations.
