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==Preservation Format== | ==Preservation Format== | ||
* [http://siarchives.si.edu/cerp/ CERP Project] [http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/mail-account E-Mail Account Schema] (?) | * [http://siarchives.si.edu/cerp/ CERP Project] [http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/mail-account E-Mail Account Schema] (?) | ||
| + | * [http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html mbox] (?) | ||
==Access Format== | ==Access Format== | ||
Revision as of 12:30, 19 November 2010
Main Page > Documentation > Media type preservation plans > Email
Significant characteristics of email
Preservation Format
- CERP Project E-Mail Account Schema (?)
- mbox (?)
Access Format
Normalization tool
Comments
- The PEDALS (Persistent Digital Archives and Library System) project has produced an open-source email extractor that converts .pst files to xml. However, this tool is designed for Windows only. Users would need to extract the email outside Archivematica and submit the extracted emails as the SIP. For more information, see Library of Congress News and Events at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100924news_article_pedals_email_tool.html.
- MBox might be an acceptable preservation format for email. MBox files are aggregations of email messages converted to plain text.
- A detailed report on testing conversion of email from proprietary to open formats is available at http://www.significantproperties.org.uk/email-testingreport.html. The report includes information about testing conversions from .pst to Mbox using ReadPST.