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Dear colleagues, The JISC-funded INSPECT Project is developing a generalised methodology to determine the significant properties of digital object types. Significant properties are those aspects of the digital object which must be preserved over time in order for it to remain accessible and meaningful. To assist and demonstrate the methodology we are analysing a range of digital objects - e-mails, structured text, raster images and digital audio. The InSPECT Project invites interested parties to submit sample data for analysis by the project. We invite contribution of emails stored in one or more of the following formats: - 1-10 emails stored in Outlook MSG, some with attachment and others without. - A Outlook PST file containing 1-10 emails with one or more with small attachments. - 1-10 Thunderbird EML files, some with attachment and others without. - 1-10 emails in a variation of the MBox format, some with attachment and others without. - 1-10 HTML and text files Contributors should provide a brief summary of each email (attachment status and other relevant information) and indicate the software application that was used to create and store the emails. It is planned that some of the contributions will be made available or referenced on the project web site. Please ensure that emails do not contain sensitive information and that you have appropriate permission to provide them (spam messages and scripts will not be accepted). Please send sample data as a compressed attachment to [log in to unmask] -- Gareth Knight Digital Preservation Officer Centre for e-Research, King's College London email: [log in to unmask] phone: 0207 848 1979 http://www.sherpadp.org.uk/ | http://www.significantproperties.org.uk