January 2009
The Collaborative Electronic Records Project has drawn to a close. This three-year collaboration between the Rockefeller Archive Center and the Smithsonian Institution Archives undertook the challenge of long-term preservation of email collections and their storage in a digital repository. The team is happy to report that it achieved its goal. CERP deliverables included: * Records Management Guidance * Transfer Guidance * Email Management Guidance * METS import file for ingest into DSpace * Preservation parser to output email collection in the XML preservation format * Email Account XML Schema co-developed by CERP and EMCAP (NHPRC-Funded Preservation of Electronic Mail Collaboration Initiative) Read more about CERP at http://siarchives.si.edu/cerp <http://siarchives.si.edu/cerp> Please excuse cross-postings. Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig Electronic Records Division Archivist Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery Building 600 Maryland Ave SW Suite 3000 MRC 507 Washington, DC 20024-2520
