ePADD 6.0 beta released!

We are very excited to announce the release of ePADD 6.0 beta!

ePADD is free and open-source computational analysis software developed by Special Collections & University Archives and partners that facilitates screening, browsing, and access for historically and culturally significant email collections.

Read on for the latest news from the project team.

New release

ePADD v6.0 includes a number of major updates in support of institutional preservation workflows and interoperability with other tools and services. In addition to adopting the Bagit specification to enable checksum verification and ensure file integrity, we have also modeled an integration with NYPL's instance of Archivematica. ePADD can now identify preservation actions performed on ePADD bags by Archivematica, including filename clean-up and file migration. ePADD provides access to both original files and migrated files. (Scripts created by NYPL to support this workflow on the Archivematica side are accessible here).

ePADD v6.0 also introduces several new export options, including the ability to export entities as CSV (either all entities, or just those of a given type), and message text as individual TXT files (to support additional text analysis and topic modeling). We have also finetuned previously existing export options: the user can now select whether they would like to export all messages as MBOX, or just non-restricted (or restricted) messages, and similarly can select whether they would like to export only correspondents whose authorities have been confirmed by the user, or only unconfirmed correspondents.