1. Dealing with the Dynamic Ginger Dickens and Sunday Phillips of the University of Texas at Arlington Archiving Dynamic Thesis and Dissertation Documents and Elements in this Era of Great Change Classic Metadata MARC Tag 502 Dissertation note 502 ## $b Ph.D. $c University of Texas at Arlington $d 2015 What We Know What’s To Come Metadata for Creative Content LC Recommended Format Statement and RDA We Rock Long Distance: M.anifest and the Diasporic Media Currents of Transnational Hip-Hop – A multimodal fully online dissertation (embedded audio and video pictures). Several institutions are now accepting innovative thesis/dissertation formats for degree completion. What Can Help Faculty support adopting innovation into institutional policies An archiving system in place to ensure the digital projects are maintained and accessible for future generations A central repository to index digital dissertations Abstract Scholarly output is no longer limited to print format. For academia, the adoption of new technology is integral to all aspects of the university experience, from recruitment, to class projects, to the archiving of ETDs and other scholarly work. For universities to thrive, they must adopt and stretch the boundaries of technology. Along with such adoption comes the growing pains of cataloging and preservation of several new ETD formats. What kind of metadata can be created to best explain the newest projects? What platforms exist that will handle the needs of documenting these new technologies? Presented here are some of the innovative ETDs that have been accepted for graduation requirements, as well as ideas about how they are cataloged and archived. What’s New MyDigitalFootprint.ORG: Young People and the Proprietary Ecology of Everyday Data – A dissertation based on open source social network findings Unflattening – A comic book style dissertation available from Harvard University Press UNC Chapel Hill is accepting non- traditional ETD formats, including those that have no written text. They do require a PDF file with a title page, copyright page, and abstract at minimum which is to be submitted along with any relevant supplemental files. http://gradschool.unc.edu/academics/thes is-diss/guide/format.html BGSU accepts “multiple formats and multiple files per paper, such as a main PDF file with supplementary data files and video clips” http://www.bgsu.edu/graduate/thesis- and-dissertations/recommended-file- formats.html The Library of Congress leads a team of experts to identify formats of creative content suitable for preservation and long term access. The format recommendations are not to serve as rigid rules but to encourage the creative output of creators, vendors and archivists that can benefit the future generations. A comprehensive list is of the LC Recommended Format Statement (revised 2015- 2016) is found in the website : http://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/textmus.html A few recommended formats are mentioned here: Audio - Media-independent (digital) Preferred Metadata: Provide most complete metadata set as delivered to online distributor (e.g. iTunes and Amazon), which may include elements not embedded in a file, including but not limited to: Song/work title, Album Title, Artist, Composer, Genre, Publisher/label name, location and date of performance, date of publication, standard identifier, any other entity identifiers Provide data in a standard XML-based format, such as, the Electronic Release Notification (ERN-DDEX) Motion Pictures - Digital and Physical Media Preferred Theatrically Released Films, in order of preference 1. Complete final production/release version of motion picture work in the original production resolution, aspect ratio and frame rate 2. Theatrical release version in original gauge (e.g., 70mm, 35mm, 16mm) 3. Unencrypted interop Digital Cinema Package (DCP), when theatrical release is not distributed as film Preferred Metadata: Release title, Release/Production Date, Production Company and/or Producer, Distributor Name, Country of Origin, Language, Duration, Relevant unique identifiers applicable to the work (EIDR, ISAN) Additionally, RDA basic instruction on recording thesis and dissertation information allows for the academic requirements and scholarly output to be dynamic and creative namely, information taken from “any source”. If statement is present, the cataloger can record 1) the degree for which an author was a candidate 2) the name of the institution or faculty to which the thesis was presented, and 3) the year the degree was granted (RDA 7.9.1.2 Source of Information) Gregory T. Donovan, Ph.D. Psychology, City University of New York, 2013 - MyDigitalFootprint.ORG Nick Sousanis, Ph.D., Education, Columbia University, 2014 Justin Schell, PhD, Comparative Studies and Discourse and Society, University of Minnesota, 2013 - https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/wrld/