What formats are being explored other than PDF?

Laval: SGML, too difficult to learn. WordPerfect style sheet is used to map to SGML

Convert the theses: RTF to XML, map to TIE [lite]

15 theses are available from University of Montreal

What do people use for search engines?

West Virginia: Cold Fusion

Va Tech: ‘Digital Lib.,’ OpenText, Site Search

Cataloging of theses and dissertations

Call numbers: Union catalog for TDs (is it useful?): Fox is interested

Search on metadata or document description:

What is the description of document?

[MARC] record

Document Object Identifier

OCLC [PURL] system

Translation of URN to URL: hdl://theses…

Generate unique identifiers–standardization?

The current situation of federated search

Cornell systems, tech reports, local

Technical recommendation for a new site: hardware and software

[see http://scholar.ib.vt.edu/theses/ facts, data, etc.]

Depositing TD electronically and how to transfer files to checkers?

Uploading exe files

Space allocation (or students: 13-20 MB (VaTech) (30-40 MB avg.)/person

Multimedia and standards