Suggested Workflow

ETD Drop is intentionally very simple, allowing for a multitude of options for how to implement your ETD program’s workflow. For a basic use case, we might recommend the following ETD ingest workflow:

1. The student logs in to ETD Drop and submits their ETD and accompanying data.
2. An employee (or team of employees) takes the submission package from the server and moves it to a location where they can work on creating a final submission package suitable for the institutional repository. (This should typically include verifying that the submitted files adhere to institutional standards, creating cleaned metadata based on the information submitted by the student, virus-checking, etc.)
3. At this point, the submission package should be deleted from the location where ETD Drop created it.