Join the SAA Web Archiving Section for a virtual coffee chat on "WARC your Email: How Web Archives Works for Email Preservation" on?Friday, January 26, 12:00-1:00pm ET.?
Description: Preserving email is a challenge. Not only are there proprietary and loosely structured formats, but CSS or image content within email might be hosted on external servers. PDFs are useful for access, but the lack of data structure in PDFs limits future use. Since email is built on web technologies, web archives can help ensure long term use of email, and WARCs may be an effective technical solution for email preservation. This talk will overview and demonstrate how the mailbagit tool converts email export files to WARCs and discuss the strengths of web archives for email preservation.?
Speaker bio: Gregory Wiedeman is the university archivist in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives at the University at Albany, SUNY where he helps ensure long-term access to the school's public records. He oversees collecting, processing, and reference for the University Archives and supports born-digital collecting, web archives, and systems implementation for the department's outside collecting areas.
Amanda Greenwood