Great news for the New Year! Mellon Foundation has awarded UNC School of Information and Library Science a $1.1M grant to facilitate advances in email curation. SILS will partner with NC DNCR for the Review, Appraisal, and Triage of Mail (RATOM) project. Read more at sils.unc.edu/news/2019/ratom

ICYMI: our article "Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email" discusses technology, privacy, and policy challenges, which are being tackled through grants to UNC School of Information and Library Science and others: ow.ly/5vAq30ncaa6 x.com/uncsils/status…

Thank you to all the presenters and participants at ML4ARC 2019!

2019 RATOM Advisory Panel meeting wrap-up. Expert voices help us serve the community; thank you to @euanc, erm, @glynndw, @LaissezFerrell, Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, Kathleen Jordan, Joanne Kaczmarek, @fileformatology, justinsimpson, Yue Wang, Carl Wilson

libratom 0.1.2 released! Improved reporting, expanded db schema. More features (including mbox support) coming soon... github.com/libratom/libra…

Missed our demo at #iPRES2019? You can check out the slides at tiny.cc/qyswcz.

We've just released libratom 0.2.0. Now with processing support for both PST and mbox, updated database schema, and improved entity identification via spaCy 2.2.1. github.com/libratom/libra…

Check out the slides from our presentation at NDSA DigiPres 2019 email session (bonus walkthroughs at the end!) bit.ly/ratomdp19

We've just released libratom 0.2.1. Performance improvements, better run logging, now with install guides for Windows, Mac, and Linux. github.com/libratom/libra…

New blog post about .RATOM: caktusgroup.com/blog/2020/04/2…

We've recently released libratom 0.4.2. This release includes scan and report updates, improved MIME-type reporting for attachments, and various bugfixes and performance improvements. github.com/libratom/libra…

We’ve recently released libratom 0.4.3. Now with flag option (-m) to populate message table of the sqlite3 database output with clean text message bodies (stripped of markup and inline attachments) and headers. pypi.org/project/librat…

Interested in email software development for archives and collections? Still time to sign up for the RATOM Hackathon! ratom.web.unc.edu/ratom-hackatho…

We’ve recently released libratom 0.5.0. Now using spaCy 3.0, providing access to improved models for named entity recognition. This release adds official tested support for Python 3.9, too! pypi.org/project/librat…

Join us in a free webinar on the latest updates to the RATOM software and how it can aid in email archiving tasks! This virtual event will take place 2.19.2021 on Zoom at 11:00am EST. Follow the link for details and registration info: ratom.web.unc.edu/2021/02/regist…

We've released libratom 0.5.2 to update some dependencies with recent security advisories. github.com/libratom/libra…

We've released libratom 0.5.3 to update some dependencies with recent security advisories. github.com/libratom/libra…

We've released libratom 0.6.0. This release extends the database schema to store individually parsed and validated header fields, uses spaCy 3.3, and updates various other dependencies. github.com/libratom/libra…