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*apologies for cross-posting* Dear all, Please consider participating in a 60-minute interview on your institutions’ uptake of PDF/A. Optionally, consider participating simply by providing written responses to an email questionnaire. This summer, the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford hosted a placement student from the Illinois School of Information Sciences to work with the Polonsky Digital Preservation Fellows for a research project on the PDF/A (Portable Document Format—Archival) file format. This project seeks to identify which flavour(s) of PDF/A best suit the content and repository needs for theses ingested into the Oxford University Research Archive<https://ora.ox.ac.uk/> (ORA). Using veraPDF<http://verapdf.org/home/> for validation, many of the theses fail due to the presence of non-Unicode (i.e., non-conforming) glyphs. Since we have encountered so many files that fail validation with veraPDF, my project team and I are considering investigating the possibility of disregarding some aspects of non-conformance if those factors present no preservation risks. We are curious to learn other institutions’ approaches to PDF/A or standard PDF validation, in addition to any issues encountered in the process or PDF/A creation and conformance. I thank you in advance for your willingness to assist in my own research process. Cheers, Anna This solicitation has been reviewed by IRB and is part of approved test protocol #18056. ---- Anna Oates MSLIS Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NDNP Coordinator Graduate Assistant, Preservation Services