PROGRESS

The Collaborative Electronic Records Project

Progress

 


Guidance

E-Mail Guidelines for Managers and Employees. Rockefeller Archive Center.

Responsible Recordkeeping: Email Records. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Email Guidance. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Transfer Guidelines. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Transfer Guidelines. Rockefeller Archive Center

Record Retention and Disposition Guidelines, Version 3. Rockefeller Archive Center. [updated November 2008]

EAD sample. Smithsonian Institution Archives.


Planning Documents

Business Case

Project Plan

Forms / Templates


Email Preservation System and Tools

DRAFT - System Model


Permission Form

Application to use materials produced by CERP, including those on the CERP website. Email completed form to SchmitzfuhrigL@si.edu.

CERP Symposium

November 2008

Acquisition Model and Conducting Preservation by CERP and North Carolina State Archives

MAIL ACCOUNT XML SCHEMA: How Internet Messages can be stored as XML by David Minor

Parsing E-Mail: Lessons Learned by Steve Burbeck

Using An Open Source Institution Repository for Preserved Email by CERP

Rule-Based Distributed Data Management by Reagan Moore

“C2P”: from Content-based Environments to Policy-based Infrastructure by Richard Marciano

Learning to Love “Ugly”: Making Sense of Archived Email by Douglas W. Oard

 


Recent Presentations

Digital Dilemmas: Archiving E-Mail. Society of American Archivists (SAA) 2008 Research Forum. San Francisco, Calif. August 26. CERP team members presented project background, processes, products, and a parser demonstration at the forum.

SAA Research Forum 2008 presentation

CERP Workflow Diagram

CERP Email Preservation Workflow

 


Email Preservation Publications and Presentations

CERP workbook. Pre-conference workshop at the Association of Canadian Archivists 2008 annual conference.

More Than One Way to Meet the Challenge: Systematic Approaches to the Capture and Preservation of Complex Digital Artifacts. Midwest Archives Conference 2008. Louisville, KY. April 2008. A panel session with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Email Collaboration Initiative (EMCAP).

Digital Dilemmas: Archiving E-Mail.
-- Southern Archives Conference. Nashville, Tenn., March 2008
-- Society of NC Archivists Spring 2008. Raleigh, N.C. This presentation included a segment from fellow research project Email Collaboration Initiative (EMCAP).

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