Difference between revisions of "Email preservation"

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These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica:
 
These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica:
 
*Preservation format
 
*Preservation format

Revision as of 14:27, 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