Prepared by: Deposit FRG

Last Revised: March 2018

Status: Final Draft

Approved by:

Repository Management Relationship: None

Demographics / User Characteristics

• Generally an ADAP - Assistant Director of Academic Programming, located within a school
• Works with Student Submitter and Library Deposit Supervisor to steward ETD deposit process
• Not a content creator
• Expert knowledge of school academic policy and standards
• Familiar with repository mediation workflows and interfaces; provides inputs as a stakeholder
• Usually not familiar with underlying repository architecture 

Frequency and Type of Repository Deposit Use

• Regular, intensifies during graduation season
• Self-Deposit

General Motivators / Goals

• Ensuring scholarly output of Emory schools / departments conforms with quality standards
• Assisting students in deposit
• Helping ensure appropriate departmental representation in repository 

Key Deposit Tasks

• Evaluate ETD deposit in accordance with school policy
• Approve and assign embargo
• Provide access to deposit for additional reviewers
• Approve deposits for final ingest, pending graduation
• Reject deposits for remediation by depositor
• Attend workshops surrounding ETD deposit and provide support to self-depositors 

Repository Content / Information Desired

• Student information
• Degree program information
• Workflow status information

Type of Material Deposited

• Textual information (from students - PDF, MS Office formats) - often the primary content
• Still images, video, research data (from students) - regular and increasing
• Research data (from students) - infrequent, but increase expected. Sometimes accompanying publication, sometimes standalone
• Other/complex objects (from students) - rare, but increase expected 

Library/Unit Interactions

• Academic Program Deposit Mediator may be affiliated with any school; typically interacts with Scholarly Communications Office for deposit