Irwin M. Chapman was a news correspondent in Washington, D.C., and several international city bureaus, who worked for Radio Press International, ABC News, CNN News, and Bloomberg News for over 40 years. In addition, Chapman was an Anne Cavanaugh Smith professor of International Journalism and Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. This material consists of born digital daily radio newscasts and corresponding emails about current events in 2022 and 2023 for Bloomberg News.
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236 Folders (EML message folders include the original message in MIME Email format, a plain text derivative, and one or more attachments, typically MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3.)
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Irwin M. Chapman was a news correspondent for over 40 years, working in Washington, D.C. and in the bureaus of several international cities. He worked for Radio Press International, ABC News, CNN News, and Bloomberg News. This is a born digital collection of radio audio recordings produced for a daily radio newscast for Bloomberg News in October 17 to November 22, 2022 and February 27 to March 24, 2023.
The materials consist of email messages that describe the radio newscast, as well as audio attachments and text derivatives of the newscasts. The material comprises a total of 328 Megabytes of Internet Message Format (EML) messages, PDF derivatives of EML messages, MBOX file, PDF derivatives of messages extracted from MBOX file, and MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3.
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This collection was donated to the University of Maryland Libraries by Irv Chapman on July 17, 2023.
Donor exported EML messages and MP3 attachments from a Comcast webmail account, saving them in five compressed ZIP folders; and exported messages and attachments as 3 MBOX files from AppleMail. Archives received these files on SanDisk Glide USB flash drive. The Electronic Records Archivist scanned the drive for viruses and analyzed the ZIP folders and MBOX files with Brunnhilde to identify and record file formats, dates, files within ZIP folders, checksums, and presence of PII or other sensitive content. When reviewed by the Electronic Records Archivist, it was determined that the initial born digital records sent by the donor were not all readable files. Readable files were retained. Outcomes of this analysis showed that 2/5 ZIP folders were readable and duplicated one another; 3/5 ZIP folders were not structured correctly and therefore unreadable; and the 3 MBOX files duplicated one another. The Electronic Records Archivist decompressed the readable ZIP folders, opened EML messages in Mozilla Thunderbird, and exported PDF derivatives and MP3 attachments for 87 messages to the born-digital processing space for collecting area review. As an outcome of the review, the collecting area decided to keep the readable files. The Electronic Records Archivist created PDF and text derivatives and extracted MP3 attachments from 1/3 MBOX files with Mailbagit, copying 63 messages and attachments to the born-digital processing space for collecting area review. The original MBOX, EML messages, MP3 attachments, and PDF/text derivatives are backed up to the local archives Born Digital Drive storage and uploaded to Academic Preservation Trust.
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