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McDonough, Jerome Renear, Allen Oates, Anna Irene 2018-09-04T20:26:46Z 2018-09-04T20:26:46Z 2018-04-26 2018-05 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. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2018-08-31 without embargo terms The student, Anna Oates, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-25 at 17:50. The student, Anna Oates, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-04-25 at 18:02. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-04-26 at 08:01. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12084 on 2018-08-31 at 17:10:14 Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:26:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 6 OATES-THESIS-2018.pdf: 5901819 bytes, checksum: 93bec143e55aae84984df59b41beb294 (MD5) Oates_abstract.docx: 14534 bytes, checksum: f8ea9c89f8303a10f1fc428a4cae4879 (MD5) Oates_acknowledgements.docx: 101991 bytes, checksum: 08141ee78e4cb7777946e16c4222cd1b (MD5) Oates_thesis_v12.docx: 23156871 bytes, checksum: ad4b2acc716a771c673667bb7f1f69d3 (MD5) Oates_titlePage_v2.docx: 12961 bytes, checksum: 4221186afb0d5da9957d7c1a93f9e045 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4207 bytes, checksum: 48a3e319fcabbb84553e9a027f54d54c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-26 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/100913 en Copyright 2018 Anna Oates Digital Preservation Institutional Repositories Electronic Theses and Dissertations ISO 19005 PDF/A Navigating the PDF/A standard: a case study of theses in the University of Oxford’s institutional repository text text Information Sciences Library & Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.