Prof. Chris Prom

Associate Dean for Digital Strategies at University of Illinois

Chris Prom is Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Professor at the University of Illinois Library and a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.

He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois, with an emphasis in British social history. In 2009-10, he was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the University of Dundee, where he led a project to help make digital preservation methods more accessible to archives and libraries.  He has written extensively about topics relating to digital cultural heritage and is most recently the author of the 2nd edition of Preserving Email, a Technical Watch Report published by the Digital Preservation Coalition.



Chris Prom

Prof. Chris Prom

Associate Dean for Digital Strategies at University of Illinois

Chris Prom

Chris Prom is Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Professor at the University of Illinois Library and a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.

He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois, with an emphasis in British social history. In 2009-10, he was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the University of Dundee, where he led a project to help make digital preservation methods more accessible to archives and libraries.  He has written extensively about topics relating to digital cultural heritage and is most recently the author of the 2nd edition of Preserving Email, a Technical Watch Report published by the Digital Preservation Coalition.

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The future of past email is PDF February 28, 2020
Article

Archives, libraries, and other memory institutions have experimented with PDF for archiving email, but have not widely implemented them as production services. As a result, many organizations are simply storing format specific email archives as …



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