The Alexander Turnbull Library, with the support of the Wellington Branch of the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand Te Huinga Mahara and Fulbright New Zealand, is hosting a one-day symposium on Thursday, 30 January 2020 for practitioners and researchers to discuss archiving email.

The formal symposium will be followed by half-day workshops on using the ePADD software and a born digital archives knowledge exchange focusing on tools and workflows on Friday 31 January 2020.

We are pleased to be joined, thanks to the support of the Fulbright Specialist programme, by Peter Chan, a digital archivist from Stanford University and the project manager of the ePADD (Email – Process, Appraise, Discover, Deliver) project.

As organisations and institutions increasingly manage and process born-digital content, they are also increasingly working with large quantities of complex email messages and their attachments. However, workflows, toolsets and policies for managing, accessing and preserving email archives are emergent and changeable.

This meeting will bring together representatives from government departments, local councils, academic and research libraries, technologists, curators, archivists and records managers working on collecting and preserving email to discuss challenges and solutions.

Registration fee of $70 includes catered lunch and morning and afternoon teas.

Final programme to be released shortly on the National Library's website: https://natlib.govt.nz/events/archiving-email-symposium-january-30-2020