PDF/MAIL: Moving Theory Towards Practice
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.Details
- Creators
- Tom Habing; Peter Wyatt; Eden Irwin; Ruby Martinez; Duff Johnson; Christopher Prom
- Institutions
- Date
- 2023-09-22 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- email; file format; specification development; software; metadata
- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- CC-BY 4.0 International
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