ABSTRACT The email of contemporary literary figures is ripe for research by scholars, and of broad interest to the general public, but can also present many challenges to cultural memory institutions that seek to appraise, process and provide access to this rich archival material. This article explores how five institutions across the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand are using ePADD, free and open source software developed by Stanford Libraries that incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning to help meet these challenges for email in contemporary English‐language literary collections. Authors and institutions represented include British poet Wendy Cope (The British Library), British novelist Ian McEwan (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin), British Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (Emory University), American poet Robert Creeley (Stanford University) and New Zealand poet and critic Ian Wedde (National Library of New Zealand). The use cases are followed by a discussion identifying lessons learned and areas for further research.

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在当代文学档案中评估、处理和提供对电子邮件的访问

摘要 当代文学人物的电子邮件已经成熟，可供学者研究，并引起公众的广泛兴趣，但也可能给寻求评估、处理和提供对这一丰富档案材料的访问的文化记忆机构带来许多挑战。本文探讨了美国、英国和新西兰的五家机构如何使用 ePADD，这是斯坦福图书馆开发的免费开源软件，该软件结合了人工智能和机器学习，以帮助应对当代英语文学收藏中电子邮件的这些挑战. 代表的作者和机构包括英国诗人温迪·科普（大英图书馆）、英国小说家伊恩·麦克尤恩（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校哈里·兰森中心）、英属印度小说家和散文家萨尔曼·拉什迪（埃默里大学）、美国诗人罗伯特·克里利（斯坦福大学）和新西兰诗人兼评论家伊恩·韦德（新西兰国家图书馆）。用例之后是讨论确定经验教训和进一步研究的领域。