Thomas,

We're considering going all-digital for our theses and this information would be of great interest to us as well. Mind summarizing, or better yet, is there a public place to document these guuidelines?

Mark 

Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
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----- "Thomas Dowling" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm curious if anyone on the list has policies, guidelines, or
> recommendations for ETD authors who want to include audio or video in
> their work.  I don't want to dictate to any of our users (and
> couldn't
> if I wanted to), but it would be handy to have a set of best--or at
> least current--practices to refer people to.
> 
> I'm thinking of issues like:
> 
>   File formats
>   Codec choices
>   Resolution, compression, file size, file length
>   Embedding video in PDF vs. separate files
>   Editing and transcoding tools
> 
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Dowling
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