Announcing the Publication of the ETDplus Virtual Workshops
(please forgive cross-posting)

Today marks the release of the ETD+ Virtual Workshop Series, the final output of the ETD+ project (2014-17), a partnership between the Educopia Institute, NDLTD, ProQuest, bepress, and twelve University libraries, generously supported by IMLS. 

Focusing specifically on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) as a mile-marker in a student’s research trajectory, the ETD+ Virtual Workshop Series provides in-time advice to students and faculty about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the ETD and all of its affiliated files.

Taught by Dr. Katherine Skinner,  the ETD+ Virtual Workshop Series is a set of free introductory training resources on crucial data curation and digital longevity techniques. 

Workshop topics (approx. 15-20 minutes each) include:
Copyright (Workshop | Guidance Brief)
Data Organization (Workshop | Guidance Brief)
File Formats (Workshop | Guidance Brief)
Metadata (Workshop | Guidance Brief)
Storage (Workshop | Guidance Brief)
Version Control (Workshop | Guidance Brief)
Each module also includes supplemental material -- slides, a Guidance Brief (a booklet on each topic, published November 2017) and a printable handout summarizing key takeaways and learning objectives. 

Access all of the materials now: https://educopia.org/research/etdplus

Please consider sharing these with graduate students (and faculty advisors) in your institution.

Earlier ETD+ Outputs
The ETDplus Virtual Workshop was built using the research project's earlier output, the ETD+ Toolkit (August 2017), which is a set of lightly formatted, easy to adopt and adapt workshop slides (with talking points) and accompanying guidance briefs. 

This earlier output, the ETD+ Toolkit, was released as a CC-BY package in August 2017. The toolkit contains all of the information necessary for hosting these materials locally, including easy-to-modify slideshows, guidance brief text documents, handouts, and evaluation instruments. 

The ETD+ Toolkit enables anyone with basic digital preservation knowledge to host and teach these workshops and/or provide their students with the information contained in the Guidance Briefs in a locally customized way. 

For more information about the ETD+ project and its outputs, please contact [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]

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