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These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica: | These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica: | ||
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| + | **Proprietary closed formats such as PST should be converted to open preservation formats | ||
**Preservation format should be text or xml based | **Preservation format should be text or xml based | ||
**Email messages, calendars, contacts and other related entities should be normalized to the preservation format | **Email messages, calendars, contacts and other related entities should be normalized to the preservation format | ||
**Preservation format should preserve the [[Significant characteristics of email|significant characteristics]] of the email messages | **Preservation format should preserve the [[Significant characteristics of email|significant characteristics]] of the email messages | ||
| − | * | + | *Attachments |
| + | **Attachments should be converted to preservation and access formats | ||
**Converted attachments should retain links to emails to which they were attached | **Converted attachments should retain links to emails to which they were attached | ||
| − | * | + | *Access format |
**Preservation format should be capable of being viewed as access format or should be capable of generating access format | **Preservation format should be capable of being viewed as access format or should be capable of generating access format | ||
**Access format should be human-readable and should be recognizable as email | **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 simple, intuitive navigation between messages, attachments, email boxes, contacts, calendars | ||
**Access format should allow navigation to normalized access copies of attachments | **Access format should allow navigation to normalized access copies of attachments | ||
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[[Category:Development documentation]] | [[Category:Development documentation]] | ||
Revision as of 15:11, 7 June 2011
These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica:
- Preservation format
- Proprietary closed formats such as PST should be converted to open preservation formats
- 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
- Attachments
- Attachments should be converted to preservation and access formats
- Converted attachments should retain links to emails to which they were attached
- Access format
- Preservation format should be capable of being viewed as access format or should be capable of generating 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