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Title: | Navigating the PDF/A standard: a case study of theses in the University of Oxford’s institutional repository |
Author(s): | Oates, Anna Irene |
Advisor(s): | McDonough, Jerome; Renear, Allen |
Department / Program: | Information Sciences |
Discipline: | Library & Information Science |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | M.S. |
Genre: | Thesis |
Subject(s): | Digital Preservation
Institutional Repositories Electronic Theses and Dissertations ISO 19005 PDF/A |
Abstract: | The PDF/A (Portable Document Format–Archival) was established by the International Organization of Standardization as the ISO 19005 standard for long-term preservation of electronic documents. While the ISO requirements of a well-formed PDF/A ensure sustainability and easy recovery of content, the standard restricts some document features from being incorporated into a well-formed PDF/A. Non-conformances to the standard are found across electronic theses and dissertations, from non-Latin glyphs used in scientific and language papers to embedded content, such as images. A further complication for achieving ISO 19005 compliance is that, despite non-conformance to the ISO standard, validation tools do not always catch non-conformance errors in documents which claim to conform to PDF/A. While PDF/A is a logical solution for long-term preservation of electronic documents, the stringent standard prevents some content which is frequently used in academic research from conforming to the ISO 19005 standard. This thesis evaluates the PDF/A and its potential use as a preservation file format for electronic theses and dissertations. |
Issue Date: | 2018-04-26 |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/100913 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2018 Anna Oates |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2018-09-04 |
Date Deposited: | 2018-05 |
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois