Adding a bit of GLAM to TRUSTworthiness: Certification Beyond Domain Repositories

1. At RDA P13, the IG Co-chairs introduced a set of TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) principles to clarify the relationship between the requirements for a trustworthy data environment placed on repositories and respective requirements for datasets (i.e., FAIR). Initially developed by members of the CoreTrustSeal Board, the RDA community was asked to add their thoughts on the first draft of a white paper (https://bit.ly/2Ih7g8F) with the hope that the principles are further developed and then endorsed by the community. Following on from the IG’s successful breakout at P13, the first part of this meeting will be used to provide an update on the comments received thus far, show the current version of the whitepaper that now includes a number of RDA members as authors, and invite additional feedback and dissemination.

2. The Core Trustworthy Data Repository Requirements—a Recommendation resulting from the Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WG, and at the heart of the CoreTrustSeal repository certification standard—are a harmonization of the catalogues of criteria of the Data Seal of Approval and World Data System Regular Member certification. These catalogues were both developed based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, and as such, the CoreTrustSeal Requirements and certification are aimed at domain-specific repositories. Nevertheless, CoreTrustSeal has been increasingly approached by ‘generalized’ repositories seeking certification, and the second part of the IG’s breakout at P14 will raise awareness and facilitate discussion around the increasing need for these important components of Global Research Data Infrastructure to be recognized as trustworthy. It will present some of the issues faced by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) in undergoing certification, and the work of a WG within CoreTrustSeal to attempt to solve these issues. We invite RDA members representing GLAMs to bring thoughts on what they require from a certification, and whether the solutions proposed will adequately address their needs.