The guidelines are meant to provide direction to the TDL's member institutions and other ETD practitioners on metadata for electronic theses and dissertations, with a particular focus on works published through Vireo, the TDL's open source ETD workflow platform. While the guidelines provide specific guidance for Vireo development and DSpace implementation, they aim to be platform-agnostic, broadly applicable whether institutions use DSpace, Vireo, Fedora, Digital Commons, or any other repository or thesis submission system.
