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eTheses

Created by Jodie Double on Sep 28, 2011 · last edited by Jodie Double · on Sep 29, 2011 (view history) · 3 versions

Title	eTheses
Description	White Rose consortium holds thousands of theses and have rarely run preservation actions on the files. Do we know of any issues related to hte PDFs? Can we convert them to PDF/A? Some are already PDF/A but can the others be converted? The larger questin and possibly out of scope for the hackathon is, why are we not capturing the file in a native format and converting to PDF/A upon ingest and storing the native file alongside?
Licensing	non-exclusive license to undertake preservation actions
Owner	University of Leeds
Dataset Location	see Jodie for hackathon, otherwise contact after event if you would like to gain access to materials
Collection Champion	Jodie Double, [email protected]
Issues brainstorm	similar issues to that of ADS datasets in that we take in or create PDFs but undertake minimal checking post processing conversion of files may introduce artifacts embedded elements may not carry through conversion formatting may shift
List of Issues	A list of links to detailed Issue pages relevant to this Dataset