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Digital Preservation: Using the Email Account XML Schema Riccardo Ferrante and Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig; Smithsonian Institution Archives; Washington, DC SIA is the institutional archives of the Smithsonian, being Abstract established by official directive in 1967. As part of its official role, The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) and the it serves as the record manager of all units of the Institution. SIA Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) conducted a three-year pilot collects, preserves, and makes available the official records of the that explored preservation challenges with email collections. This Smithsonian Institution, the papers of Smithsonian scholars and paper reviews the acquisition model and workflow used based on other staff members, and the records of related professional the OAIS Reference Model. Rather than focusing on individual organizations. It carries out a program of records management for messages, the Collaborative Electronic Records Project (CERP) Smithsonian offices, advising them on the disposition of records settled on preserving an account as a whole, maintaining the and pertinent documentary materials, and operates a Records structure and relationships within a collection as well as Center for the temporary storage of scheduled records. simplifying metadata management. This paper also reviews some SIA has been accessioning born-digital records for more than of the challenges with the email collecti