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[NEW!]  Achieving Email Account Preservation with XML #0128

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Fri, Dec 11, 2009
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: November 16, 2009

Co-Sponsor: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Co-Sponsor: Delaware Valley Archivists Group (DVAG)

Lodging & Travel Information

Hotel Windsor
1700 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA19103

Additional details


Workshop Fees

Registration Type Fees: Early-Bird / Regular

Full 1/2-day Registration #0128

SAA Member $95 / $145
Employees of Member Institutions $120 / $170
Nonmember $145 / $195


Workshop Description

Please note this is a 1/2-day workshop-1:00 PM - 4:30 PM


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!

Please bring your laptop with a CD drive or USB port for “hands-on” experience. You are strongly encouraged to download the CERP parser from the CERP website at http://www.siarchives.si.edu/cerp/parserdownload.htm and review the installation guide prior to the workshop.

The instructor will review the installation at the workshop.

Attendance is limited to 40.


Workshop Agenda

Event Name Date & Time Instructors/Speakers & CEUs

Achieving Email Account Preservation with XML #0128

Fri, Dec 11, 2009
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Kelly Eubank (Instructor)
Riccardo A. Ferrante (Instructor)

Archival Recertification Credits-ARCs: 2.5
General CEU Credits: 0.37