As part of our current digital capacity building strategy, Our Digital Century, The National Archives commissioned Kevin Bolton, Jan Whalen and Larysa Bolton to create a workflow for email preservation.
As part of this strategy, the following resources have also been produced:
Who this guidance is for, and what it covers
This workflow describes the process of selecting the content and obtaining it from the creator or depositor, as well as planning.
This workflow describes how you prepare and process the content so it is ready for preserving at the next stage, including appraisal and processing.
This workflow describes the process of transferring content to secure storage and preserving it.
This workflow describes the process of making content easy to find and accessible for users.
Examples of workflows from across the archives sector