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PRONI Digital Preservation Project

Added by Larry Murray · last edited by Paul Wheatley · on May 04, 2012 (view change)

Title	PRONI Digital Preservation Project
Description	Sample export od data from the RecordsNI Electronic Document and Records Management System
Licensing	Sample data only
Owner	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Dataset Location	Not Applicable - sample email with attachments to be uploaded
Collection Champion	Larry Murray
Issues brainstorm	When preserving complex electronic objects such as emails with attachments (MS Word, Excel etc) it is necessary to: 1. Identify the constituent parts of the email (the record) 2. Extract the attachments for preservation purposes 3. Harvest any required metadata from the attachments 4. Link the attachments back to the parent object 5. Ensure that the de-constructed parts retain the original data objects "recordness"
List of Issues	Preserving MS Outlook (.msg) E-mails with Attachments