DRS3 Training Materials
These training materials are intended to cover standard activities and common use cases, but local practice varies widely from unit to unit and user to user. To give users access to as much targeted support as possible, drop-in hours and 1-on-1 sessions are available. Please note that drop-in hours will not include step-by-step walkthroughs of workflows; they are intended to serve as Q&A, troubleshooting, and discussion sessions. Users are expected to have reviewed the training materials prior to attending drop-in or 1-on-1 sessions.
Foundational Topics
General Overview
Audience: all users
Deposit Fundamentals
Audience: all users
Core Concepts
Audience: all users
Workflow Topics
Updating DRS2 Deposit Workflows
Audience: depositors, editors
Prerequisites: core concepts (all)
Audio objects NEW!
Document objects NEW!
Plaintext objects NEW!
Container objects (formerly “opaque containers”) COMING SOON
Page-turned list objects COMING SOON
Moving image objects COMING SOON
Web objects COMING SOON
New in DRS3
These topics will be published throughout summer and fall 2026.
Audience: depositors, editors
Prerequisites: core concepts (all)
Collection objects
Database objects
Dataset objects
Disk image objects
Email objects
Executable objects
Spatial image objects
Virtual reality objects
Unpacking legacy opaque content
Don’t see a topic you need? Contact the DRS Futures team to let us know.