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Repository Trust Resources: Pick & mix for your local needs

5 Dec 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

The 'Repository Trust Resources: Pick & mix for your local needs' workshop will take place on 5 December 2024 from 15:00-16:00 CEST.

Please note the event start time is 15.00 CEST (14.00 UK) and end time is 16.00 CEST (15.00 UK)

Registration for the workshop is free but mandatory.

Overview

Trustworthiness is a key concept for repositories seeking to demonstrate that they can be relied upon to care for digital objects on behalf of others through deposit, curation, and long term preservation. Demonstrating trustworthiness depends on the transparent sharing of information, ideally understandable by humans and machines to support interoperability, assessment, and potentially certification.

What characteristics, metadata, artefacts, and evidence should a repository be transparent about to generate trust, support users, and seek improvement and certification? This session will introduce attendees to three resources related to three repository trustworthiness resources. The RDA Common Descriptive Attributes of Research Data Repositories, the CoreTrustSeal + FAIRenabling Capability Maturity Model, and the Metadata & Data Services: Activities & Functions. Each addresses repository trustworthiness from a different perspective and contains a wide range of elements that can be used as a single approach, or picked from and mixed together to meet local needs, requirements, and goals.

This workshop is intended for those working in data repositories and data service providers.

Speakers: 

Hervé L’Hours looks after repository and preservation issues at the UK Data Archive, based at the University of Essex and lead partner in the UK Data Service, which is the UK Service Provider to CESSDA. The UKDS has been actively involved in Trustworthy Digital Repository (TDR) issues for many years including standards, CoreTrustSeal, metadata, evidence and transparency.

Oliver Parkes works in the Technical Service directorate at the UK Data Service as the Repository Project and Standards Coordinator. He represents the Service across several Horizon Europe projects with a focus on FAIR data and Trustworthy Digital Repositories.