The Palladium Project – appraisal, access and use of Carcanet Press email archive
Presenter:
Jessica Smith, Jochen Farwer
Description:
This proposal is submitted to present on the Arts Council England funded Palladium Project carried out at the University of Manchester in 2021/22.
The University of Manchester Library has been preserving the archive of indie poetry publisher Carcanet Press since 2012. The collection is held in our digital preservation system, Preservica, and 2021 saw the introduction of appraisal and management via ePADD. The Palladium project was initiated to enable the creative arts and project archivists to explore the challenges of access within the context of the regulatory framework, and to explore new software available for the management of email archives.
The presentation will showcase the project’s findings relating to appraisal of email, methods of providing mediated access, and collaboration with donors, researchers, artists and developers.
It will outline the development of new functionality for ePADD by the Library’s development team, including display and download functionality, email text redaction and correspondent editing. Short demonstration videos of some of these developments will be included.
It will give an overview of the project outputs, including new workflows for preservation and appraisal, an appraisal rubric for the Carcanet email archive, user guides for donors and archive professionals, data visualisations and creative responses to the email archive.
Email Handling in a Digital Preservation System
Presenter:
Jack O’Sullivan, Preservica
Description:
In this talk, we will discuss how Preservica, a COTS Digital Preservation system, handles email. We will look at how we model the information content of emails and how that enables us to perform migration and rendering. We will also discuss how we manage bulk mailbox transfers from leading providers, as well as individual email messages.
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Day Three – June 15
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Jessica Smith, Jochen Farwer
Day Three – June 15
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Jack O’Sullivan