Email Archiving in PDF

Email is one of the most ubiquitous and widely disseminated, and also one of the least preserved and difficult to manage, of electronic document formats.  While the  preservation community has developed email-specific tools and preservation pathways, PDF provides a new and scalable approach that can be used to archive email messages, folders, and even accounts. … Read more

A Specification for using PDF to Package and Represent Email

US government and academic preservationists are looking to PDF to take on the fight against email degradation. The EA-PDF (Email Archives in PDF) concept is under development; a document spelling out requirements for archiving email messages, folders or accounts as ISO 32000-2 compliant files. If implemented, EA-PDF would help people preserve email attributes that are … Read more