Achieving Email Account Preservation with XML #0127

How do you successfully manage and preserve email? Your instructor will explain the XML preservation schema for email accounts co-authored and used by The Collaborative Electronic Records Project (CERP - Smithsonian Institution Archives and Rockefeller Archive Center) and the Electronic Mail Collaboration Initiative (EMCAP - North Carolina, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania). Learn about the benefits of using the EMA schema for effective, efficient preservation of email accounts and their messages. In addition, you’ll hear how the schema can be used in trustworthy repositories to validate deposited email accounts, and how it can be adopted as a professional standard such as METS and EAD.

Upon completing this seminar, you’ll know:

* Why XML?
* Tools for XML and for parsing;
* What prepping do you have to do before preservation?
* How to assess email account & message condition;
* About the breakdown of the schema and its application to email accounts;
* Why the instructors took the account-level approach;
* How to use the schema and related tools at your own organization;

Who should attend? Archivists, records managers, and librarians who will be dealing with or are handling email and other electronic records.

Some understanding of XML/HTML, such as recognizing the basic structure of an XML document, is useful!

Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop for hands-on experience.

Attendance is limited to 40.