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These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica: | These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica: | ||
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Revision as of 15:27, 7 June 2011
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These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica:
- Preservation format
- Proprietary closed formats such as PST should be converted to open preservation format
- Preservation format should be text or xml based
- Email messages, calendars, contacts and other related entities should be normalized to the preservation format
- Preservation format should preserve the significant characteristics of the email messages
- Preservation format should be capable of being viewed as an access format or should be capable of generating an access format
- Attachments
- Attachments should be converted to preservation and access formats
- Converted attachments should retain links to emails to which they were attached
- Access format
- Access format should be human-readable and should be recognizable as email
- Access format should allow simple, intuitive navigation between messages, attachments, email boxes, contacts, calendars
- Access format should allow navigation to normalized access copies of attachments