TRITA numbers

What is a TRITA number and why does each approved thesis get assigned one?

TRITA stands for Transactions for the Royal Institute of Technology, added by the letter "A". The TRITA definition is the 1971 report, "Mall för publikationsserier vid Kungl. Tekniska högskolan i Stockholm", TRITA-LIB-1001, http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-127656 Links to an external site.

The format for TRITA numbers for degree projects is TRITA-<school acronym>-EX-YYYY:nnn, where nnn is a sequential number starting from 1 each year with the numbers assigned in chronological order to approved theses ("numren delas ut kronologiskt först när examinatorn godkänt arbetet." - according to one of KTH's archivists). Note that the list of assigned TRITA numbers is archived each year.