Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository

Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository

Critique : Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository

Economic trends might change how libraries and archives evolve. However, [RLG 01] draws primarily on the experience and methodology of professional librarians, making little use of recent progress in engineering and other disciplines. Your draft report overlooks trends that can be exploited for more costeffective solutions and more satisfactory roles for librarians—focusing on knowledge search ...

Users' Trust in Trusted Digital Repository Content

Scholars who study trust in digital archives have largely focused their attention on the power of certification by third-party audit as a way to communicate trustworthiness to end-users. In doing so, they assume that the establishment of a network of trusted digital archives will create a climate of trust. But certification at the repository level also assumes the trustworthiness of digital obj...

Becoming A Certified Trustworthy Digital Repository: The Portico Experience

The scholarly community’s dependence on electronic resources is rapidly increasing and those electronic resources are increasingly preserved in digital repositories or other preservation services. Whether locally hosted at libraries, collaboratively hosted between institutions, or externally hosted by a third party, one method for these digital repositories to take to assure themselves and thei...

Automated Validation of Trusted Digital Repository Assessment Criteria

The RLG/NARA trusted digital repository (TDR) certification checklist defines a set of preservation assessment criteria. The criteria can be mapped into management policies that define how a digital preservation environment is operated. We explore how these management policies can be automated through their characterization as rules that control preservation services. By integrating a rule-base...