Hi everyone,
In reply to Larry's query below about the development of a tool to covert the
messages to a standard format, members of the list may be interested in the
work we have undertaken at the Digital Preservation Testbed (Testbed Digitale
Bewaring) in the Netherlands, on converting e-mail messages to XML for long
term preservation.
We have explored different approaches to the conversion, and are developing an
e-mail to XML conversion demo. It is a plug-in for an e-mail application, which
creates and stores an XML representation of the message in a central repository
when the e-mail is first created and sent. The demo is currently being
extended to convert existing and received e-mails to XML.
Details can be found on our website in the Publications section:
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/index.cfm?paginakeuze=185&categorie=2
We will soon be publishing our final recommendations on e-mail preservation,
and will be posting these on our website in due course. They will include
the XML Schema for the converted e-mails, as well as many other related topics.
Kind regards,
Maureen
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Maureen Potter
Experiment Operator
Testbed Digitale Bewaring.
24 - 26 Nieuwe Duinweg
2508 AA, Den Haag
Netherlands.
Tel: 00 31 70 8887764
URL: http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Medina [mailto:medina9@llnl.gov]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:00 PM
To: ERECS-L@LISTSERV.ALBANY.EDU
Subject: Re: email
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Any thought being given to providing a tool to convert the messages to some
common format, then giving guidance that places the responsibility on the
sender/recipient to assign a subject matter and file classification to the
message for management within existing repositories?
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