EMILiA aus Berlin | Enterprise Software

We develop a software that will support archives in the acquisition, technical processing, indexing, anonymization and retreival of e-mail mailboxes.

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A position as a co-founder in an up-and-coming software start-up with a society-relevant mission.

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Archives, libraries, museums, scientific researchers, private individuals, insolvency administrator, justice system

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Foundation, customer acquisition, recruitment

Unsere Story

The most important basis for the current project is the initial experience with email archiving that has been gained in the Max Planck Society archive since 2015. The background to the efforts at that time was the fact that the submission of analog documents by the institutes of the Max Planck Society was in sharp decline. Research by the archive revealed that a significant proportion of long-term relevant communication had shifted entirely to the digital realm. As the transmission of important scientific findings and decision-making processes would no longer have been secure, a strategy for archiving historically significant email inboxes had to be developed. As neither practical experience with archiving emails nor satisfactory software solutions existed in the specialist community in 2015, the archive set out in search of suitable partner institutions for its own development. The result of this search was the cooperation with the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin, which continues to this day. Over the next two years, various university projects laid the foundations for the development of software for the secure and loss-free transfer of email inboxes. This was finally put into practice by a student assistant in 2017 and tested by various municipal and state archives a year later. In the course of archiving the first mailboxes, however, further obstacles became apparent that made a more complex solution strategy necessary. For this reason, the EMILiA project was launched. The current development project is a cooperative research project between the Reliable Systems Working Group of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin and the Max Planck Society Archive. Since the beginning of the year, funding has been provided by the ProValid funding program of the Investment Bank Berlin.