Repository Trust Resources: Pick & Mix for your Local Needs

The "Repository Trust Resources: Pick & Mix for your Local Needs" will take place on 5th December 2024 from 15:00-16:00 CEST. Registration for the workshop is free but mandatory.

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.