n.preserved copies of electronic mail collected for permanent retention and accessSUL 2014The end goal is to produce an open-source tool that will allow repositories and individuals to interact with email archives before and after they have been transferred to a repository. It will consist of four modules, each based on a different functional activity: Processing (arrangement and description), Appraisal (collection development), Discovery (online via the web), and Delivery (access).CLIR 2018bThe scale of email archives varies a great deal among academic and government institutions. Smaller institutions may struggle with appraising, ingesting, and preserving even a single account. An average email archive in an academic setting might contain 40,000 messages, while an archive of one million messages would likely be considered quite large. In federal government institutions, one million messages might be considered small.O’Connell 2019, 214In 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) announced the formation of the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives to examine current efforts to preserve email, articulate frameworks for email preservation, and develop a working agenda to construct the technical framework.Winters and Prescott 2019, 397Letters and correspondence are a fundamental source for historians and email archives will be a first port of call for historians investigating the twenty-first century. Email messages sent and received by each member of staff of the White House during the Presidency of George W. Bush are stored in the Electronic Records Archive of the US National Archives and form part of the George W. Bush Presidential Library.AAT 2021Collections of electronic mail, stored as records, or otherwise held separately from active mailbox locations.Jaillant 2022, 535The RATOM project (Review, Appraisal and Triage of Mail) is developing Natural Language Processing for appraisal and processing of email archives.
