Email preservation

These are requirements for email preservation in Archivematica:

• Conversion of proprietary closed format (eg PST) 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
• Conversion of attachments
  • Converted attachments should retain links to emails to which they were attached
• 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 allow simple, intuitive navigation between messages, attachments, email boxes, contacts, calendars
  • Access format should allow navigation to normalized access copies of attachments