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I'd like to discuss what people think is useful and practical information to incorporate about electronic records into archival description. A good example of this is extent - is extent in terms of data size (e.g. megabytes/gigabytes) sufficient and appropriate? Are file/directory counts useful to researchers, or are they potentially misleading? I'd also be curious how people are approaching description of records like websites as well - whether they're describing sections of a site's information architecture, and what other information would be crucial to provide in a access system for archival description.

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What we can do to help researchers to work on email archives?

Peter Chan, Stanford University (AIMS)

I would like to know what tools people use to accession, process, deliver and preserve emails. I am also curious to know what do accessioning, processing, delivering and preserving mean to different institutions. I saw emails being printed on paper, described in finding aids and delivered in a reading room. I also found emails presented in visually simulating graphs. I hope to share the tools I found useful and to discuss how far archivists should do on emails.talk about "Muse" which is a program for browsing long-term email archives using data mining and visualization techniques. The program is created by Sudheendra Hangal from the Mobisocial laboratory at Stanford University. (http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/muse/)

How informed are our depositors?

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