E-mail preservation planning - WRC late Fall 2013-Spring 2014

Send call for interest in group discussions of email preservation out to AHA listserv (Rebecca, late November)

Arrange April 2014 dates for hosting SAA workshop on preserving e-mail as XML (Amanda, late November)

Reading:

• http://libguides.rice.edu/preserve-e-mail

• http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/documents/archive_email.pdf

• http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/latest-news/805-email-tomorrow-and-next-year-and-forever-preserving-email-report-published (Chris Prom article - the announcement links to the pdf we saved here)

• http://e-records.chrisprom.com/resources/email-preservation-selected-bibliograpy/ (Selected bibliography suggested by Chris Prom)
  

   

Research email account schema (XML) (see Chris Prom article, page 23)

Goals and Objectives

Develop digital preservation plan for e-mail

Projects to undertake:

1. discrete body of e-mail, not going to grow (Alan Chapman)
2. ongoing e-mail capture, growing (Rice college e-mails)
3. New collection with e-mail content, donor guidelines for electronic materials?  (speak with Melissa Kean)
   

Identify and implement Sofware Tools

Aid4Mail http://www.aid4mail.com/ - not free ($40)

Xena-XML http://xena.sourceforge.net/index.php - open source (digital objects and email file formats)

Email Preservation Parser http://siarchives.si.edu/cerp/parserdownload.htm - open source

Install BitCurator on a machine (Fondren IT) http://www.bitcurator.net/ 

    disk image Alan Chapman e-mail from fondranet and analyze

Refine e-mail preservation plan and policies