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DRS supports deposit of digital theses and dissertations and associated supporting content.
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What follows are instructions on how to prepare a thesis object and supporting content for deposit.
Preparing a thesis object
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Preparing a thesis object
To deposit a thesis object, follow the regular manual or automatic workflow for creating a Document batch. Use these metadata values:
- Object-level Role: THESIS.
- File-level Processing value: leave blank, except for a redacted version of the thesis, which should be coded as REDACTED.
- File-level Role: assign DELIVERABLE to get a Delivery URN for the PDF file. Optionally, assign role ARCHIVAL_MASTER to the original file. If there is only one file in the thesis, then assign both roles to the file (Ctrl-Click in Batch Builder to assign multiple roles).
Preparing supporting content
A thesis object may be accompanied by any of the following supporting content: thesis certificate, thesis supplement, embargo documentation, license documentation.
Supporting content must be deposited to DRS and associated with the thesis object through relationship and/or rights metadata. There are three options for depositing supporting content:
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See the procedure for depositing supporting content in Section 19 "Adding Licenses, Documentation and Other Supporting Content."
Types of supporting content
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Thesis certificate: Certificate of approval that specifies a thesis or doctoral dissertation was approved in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree. Most of the time, the certificate is included as part of the thesis and thus does not need to be deposited as a separate object. When the certificate is a separate file, it should be desposited as a separate supporting object. Certificates must be in PDF format and should be deposited using content model Document. The object role for ceritifactes should be set to "THESIS_CERTIFICATE". There can be only one certificate associated with a thesis.
To relate a certificate object to the thesis object:
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