Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
SCENARIO
A funding agency wishes to instruct its researchers to deposit their data into
one or other of the long term archives it will support. This will involve a large
and continuing commitment of resources. How can the funder be sure that the
archives it wishes to support are up to the job? An internationally recognised
certification system would give funders and depositors a way to distinguish and
evaluate archives.
24.6.7.1 Next Steps
•
Support the development of a set of ISO standards about digital repository audit
and certification
•
Help set up the organisation and processes to provide accreditation and certifica-
tion services
24.6.7.2 Final Destination
•
An internationally recognised accreditation, audit and certification process with a
well defined and long-lived support organisation, with appropriate tools and best
practice guides.
24.6.7.3 Relevant Projects, Policies, Organisations, Activities
•
Repository Audit and Certification Working Group (
http://wiki.digitalrepository
auditandcertification.org
), DCC (
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
), DRAMBORA (
http://
www.repositoryaudit.eu/
), OAIS (
http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/
650x0b1.pdf
), Alliance for Permanent Access, EU (
http://europa.eu/
), NSF
(
http://www.nsf.gov/
),
JISC (
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
),
nestor
(
http://www.
langzeitarchivierung.de/
)
24.7 Aspects Excluded from This Roadmap
A number of science data related activities have been excluded from this document
on the basis that (1) they provide the islands of capabilities and therefore (by defini-
tion) are not infrastructure and (2) it is not at all clear that an infrastructure can be
created to support these activities, however this must be reviewed. Access methods
have not been discussed above because they are expected to be largely provided by
GRID-type capabilities, although clearly infrastructure such as persistent identifiers
will play an important role in access services.
