Processing Email Archives in Special Collections
Processing Email Archives in Special Collections
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处理特殊集合中的电子邮件档案
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2012
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通讯作者：
Jeffrey Heer
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Sudheendra Hangal;Peter Chan;M. Lam;Jeffrey Heer
图书馆和学术机构经常会获得那些工作和生活具有重要历史或研究价值的知名人士的档案。电子邮件收藏现在是这些档案的重要组成部分-学术顾问委员会成员在范式项目中将其评为最有价值的图片，演讲，新闻稿，个人网站和博客，竞选材料，参与日记，演示文稿等[3]。电子邮件中嵌入的详细记录提供了对捐赠者思想和行动的访问，这在过去是很少有的，并使研究人员能够探讨这样的问题：捐赠者使用什么过程来取得特定的突破？他们当时在阅读什么，它对他们有什么影响？[4]此外，这些档案不仅仅是由名人积累的;大约有20亿用户，电子邮件几乎覆盖了有线社会的每一个部分。事实上，大英图书馆收集了普通英国人的电子邮件样本，作为捕捉21世纪生活感的一种方式。
Libraries and scholarly institutions often acquire the archives of well-known individuals whose work and life has significant historical or research value. Email collections are now an important part of these archives– the Academic Advisory Board Members in the Paradigm project ranked them the most valuable from among images, speeches, press releases, personal websites and weblogs, campaign materials, engagement diaries, presentations, etc [3]. The detailed record embedded in email provides access to the donor’s thoughts and actions at a level that has rarely been available in the past and enables researchers to probe questions like: What was the process the donor used to come up with a particular breakthrough? What were they reading at the time and how may it have influenced them? [4] Further, these archives are being accumulated not just by famous people; with about 2 billion users, email reaches just about every section of wired societies. Indeed, the British Library has collected sample email messages from ordinary Britons as a way of capturing a sense of life in the 21st century [5].