EA-PDF establishes high-level requirements for using PDF technology to package email for long-term preservation.
Archives, libraries, and other memory institutions have experimented with PDF for archiving email, but have not widely implemented them as production services. As a result, many organizations are simply storing format specific email archives as unprocessed holdings. For this group, email to PDF offers a relatively straightforward migration pathway, with demonstrated downstream benefits.
What are the essential characteristics and optimal functional requirements of email messages and necessary related information in a PDF technology-based archive? This project sets out to answer that question.
The Future of Email Archives report calls for the development of email archiving specifications leveraging PDF.
In our webinar, you will learn strategies for implementing email management systems with PDF/A. Our up-to-the-moment webinar will first provide a short introduction to the subject of email management and briefly summarise the most important aspects of the PDF/A standard.