CoreTrustSeal Discussion Paper open voor community feedback

De CoreTrustSeal Requirements worden elke drie jaar door de community geëvalueerd en geüpdatet. Maar sommige onderwerpen die in dit proces worden aangekaart zijn te groot of complex om met een kleine tekstuele verandering aan te pakken. Voor dit soort onderwerpen volgt de CoreTrustSeal Board altijd een proces waarbij de community weer centraal staat. Momenteel is er een discussiepaper open voor feedback aangaande samenwerkende archieven en hoe zij in de CoreTrustSeal scope vallen. Iedereen is welkom om input te geven. Dit leidt tot een paneldiscussie sessie op de iPRES conferentie, waarna het discussiepaper zal leiden tot een CoreTrustSeal position statement en beleid.

Zie hieronder de tekst en uitleg van de CoreTrustSeal Board en de link naar het document open voor feedback:

Federated and consortium-based repository models are increasingly common across the digital preservation landscape. Communities pool resources to operate shared curation platforms, preservation pipelines, storage infrastructures, and access systems. These arrangements offer clear benefits: reduced duplication, lower costs, shared expertise, and greater sustainability. At the same time, they raise important questions for trust certification. When members of a federated environment apply individually for CoreTrustSeal certification while relying on shared or outsourced functions, how should responsibility, accountability, and evidence of trustworthiness be transparently displayed and assessed? The CoreTrustSeal Board has created a discussion paper that articulates a CoreTrustSeal perspective on these questions, grounded in the principles of community stewardship, active preservation, and long-term responsibility. It builds directly on the CoreTrustSeal Extended Guidance on third-party services and outsourced functions, clarifying how that guidance applies to federated preservation communities. The central argument is straightforward: shared systems are acceptable and often desirable, but responsibility for preservation cannot be transferred, diluted, or obscured. Certified repositories must demonstrate active, organizational responsibility for curation and preservation, even when those activities are operationally distributed. Comments are welcome on this shared Google document. They will feed the discussion of a session on the subject during the next iPRES conference.