These tables are adapted from Significant Properties Testing Report: Email, Gareth Knight, Digital Curation Specialist, InSPECT project, 30 March 2009, Sec. 2.1, Significant properties that must be maintained.
https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Significant_characteristics_of_email
from The Signal - At the highest level, Chris Prom, in his DPC Technology Watch Report on Preserving Email (pdf) identifies two areas: perceived technological barriers; and legal mandates that prioritize minimum legal retention periods favoring record destruction over long-term access.
Before we can address the “how” of email preservation we need to know “what” an email message is.
A strand of research addressing the “what” for any particular format comes under the rubric of “significant properties.”
from The Signal:
I’m struck more by the types of things that I don’t see as often: proposals for practical, applied research that directly address long-time digital stewardship challenges or that build on other stellar research to establish a focused advance towards solutions. Many of the issues that need more focus are the types of things that cause organizations to wait on digital stewardship because the problems aren’t solved yet.
Muse lets you look back and reflect on your past by allowing you to quickly browse a large email archive and helps you spot possibly interesting messages and patterns in the archive. Muse is a research project in the Mobisocial computing laboratory at Stanford.
http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/muse/