IDCC25 Workshop - Building a CoreTrustSeal community

The aim of this workshop is to discuss the topic of community building around CoreTrustSeal. The targeted audience is therefore anyone interested in this topic, regardless of background or organisation type.

Building a community around shared topics of interest or importance can help foster exchange of knowledge, support, and resources. For repositories in shared contexts (e.g., institutional, or specific to a particular domain), building a community around CoreTrustSeal can give insight into shared bottlenecks or struggles, foster the exchange of solutions or resources, and create the space for collective reflection on the topic of transparency in general. Ultimately, this can lower the burden of the certification process and thus potentially increase the number of repositories that are certified or working towards increased trustworthiness. Uniting repositories into networks like this with shared community practices and standards is also a step towards the general desire of stronger international collaboration and networking of Trustworthy Digital Repositories.

The workshop will start off with some general considerations around CoreTrustSeal as a certification mechanism for Trustworthy Digital Repositories (with its history reaching back to 2008, nearing 20 years!) and the benefits of community building. Next, a current example of CoreTrustSeal community building will be presented from the Cultural Heritage community in the Netherlands, which will launch its community in November 2024. The process, lessons learned, and initial experiences of this will be shared with the audience.

After this, the audience will be split into groups based on shared characteristics (e.g., scientific domain, nationality, or organisation type) and discuss how to foster community building in their environment. The groups, moderated and supported by the organisers, will consider how a community could be established and what the effects would be of such an initiative. The workshop will conclude with shared reflections on community building around CoreTrustSeal, with the aim to inspire participants to potential further action.