PDF/MAIL: Moving Theory Towards Practice

Habing, Tom; Wyatt, Peter; Irwin, Eden; Martinez, Ruby; Johnson, Duff; Prom, Christopher

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Title

PDF/MAIL: Moving Theory Towards Practice

Author(s)

• Habing, Tom
• Wyatt, Peter
• Irwin, Eden
• Martinez, Ruby
• Johnson, Duff
• Prom, Christopher

Issue Date

2023

Keyword(s)

• Email
• File Format
• Specification Development
• Software
• Metadata

Abstract

Email is one of the most ubiquitous forms of communication in both personal and professional contexts. The EA-PDF (Email Archiving with PDF) project is developing a PDF specification (PDF/mail) for email archiving, as well as an open-source tool to convert emails to the new PDF format. By creating a new specification defining common understandings for archiving email, the project aims for PDF/mail to lower barriers to effective email preservation that meets the needs of the archive and digital preservation community. This includes building a community to support the project, developing the PDF specification itself, and creating a proof-of-concept tool to convert emails to PDF. With an open-source tool available for converting emails, archivists and other professionals—particularly those working in context where they do not have access to technologies supporting email preservation--will have a straightforward and cost-effective way of preserving emails for posterity, complementing other preservation methods and tools.

Series/Report Name or Number

iPRES 2023

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright held by the author(s). The text of this paper is published under a CC BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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