{"id":212,"date":"2003-12-10T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=212"},"modified":"2003-12-10T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2003-12-10T17:12:13","slug":"digital-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Digital Dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As December graduation deadline dates are fast approaching, please update all department publications, and notify degree candidates that, effective Fall 2003, all Thesis and Dissertations will be submitted electronically. The on-line submission process is outlined at our web site <a href=\"http:\/\/dissertations.umi.com\/umd\">http:\/\/dissertations.umi.com\/umd<\/a> [from University email]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The University of Maryland now <b>only<\/b> accepts a thesis or dissertation in PDF format (they take .rtf and .doc, but change them into PDF).  This is a pretty radical shift, I think, not just in general policy, but in terms of what a dissertation can easily include.  Of course, digital dissertations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iath.virginia.edu\/~mgk3k\/dissertation\/title.html\">aren&#8217;t new<\/a>, but we are talking enforced doctrine here, rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/etext.lib.virginia.edu\/ETD\/ETD.html\">early adoption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UMD process still has restrictions in terms of margins and other formatting issues (fonts, grr!), but you can still embed video, images, and sound easily in a PDF document, not to mention use programs like Quark to develop elaborate designs within the established guidelines.  While I&#8217;m grateful that I&#8217;ll eventually save money on copy costs, I really wonder: are they just trying to make it harder for me to finish?<\/p>\n<p>Hyperlinks.  Images.  Video.  Sound.<\/p>\n<p>Bound, but unbound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}