Report on third DLM-Forum on electronic records (Barcelona, 6–8 May 2002). The third edition of the DLM-Forum on Electronic Record was celebrated in Barcelona, the multidisciplinary international forum that has the objective to improve the management of electronic documents in the organizations and the long-term conservation. This edition has been marked by an active participation of industry of the technologies of the information and the communications, and by the presentation of the results of DLM-Forum 1996. The present report describes the development of the DLM-Forum in Barcelona.