2021
Harvard leads a collaboration with the University of Manchester and Stanford Libraries to integrate the preservation functionality of EAS into ePADD to support a more holistic workflow through the ePADD tool.
2020
Harvard enters a partnership with Stanford Libraries on a grant led by the Stanford ePADD team to align the development roadmaps between EAS and ePADD.
2019
Participation in a grant alongside multiple institutions to explore specifications for archiving email in PDF containers.
2018
Membership on the Executive Committee of the Mellon Foundation and Digital Preservation Coalition sponsored Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives.
2017
Participation in the CoSA-NHPRC Email Symposium (September 2017).
2016
Harvard sponsors an Email Archiving Stewardship Workshop for internal and external communities.
2015 - 2018
Participation in Stanford University’s IMLS grant project to develop ePADD – by conducting testing, providing feedback, and assisting with prioritization of new features and functionality.
2014
Participation in an NDSA Standards and Practices Email Interest Group, which included a series of demonstrations of email archiving tools.
2011
Loeb Library at the Graduate School of Design and Harvard Art Museums Archives join as additional curatorial partners to use EAS.
2009
Harvard debuts its Email Archiving System (EAS) to support processing and preservation of email records across Harvard University.
The first curatorial partners to utilize EAS are Countway Library at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University Archives, and Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
2007 - 2008
Harvard Library charges an Email Working Group to survey the field and provide recommendations on the stewardship of email. The resulting report to the University Library Council (ULC) identifies email as essential to documenting modern life and business including scholarly communications and the operations of the University. Head curators at the University then identified the capture and preservation of email as one of the highest priorities (along with web archiving) for born digital collections.