Over the past week, I’ve been testing some tools for preservation migration of email (In particular the Email Parser) and a beta version of Aid4Mail, which will allow for PDF and custom output formats.
I’ve also been preparing for a talk I will give next week at the Neils Bohr Archives in Copenhagen, concerning “Preserving the ‘Papers’ of 21st Century Science.” As I’ve prepared the talk, I posted a first draft of a submission agreement template, under my recommendations section. It may be suitable for local customization as part of an entire program to accession, process, preserve and provide access to electronic materials, and the fields used in it could possibly be used as the basis for designing a data management system for submission agreements, which would ideally interaction with an accessioning/ingest system.
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