Digital Preservation Seeds

by Barbara Sierman

Behind the review proces

February 17, 2021

There are several ways to get certified, but currently we see that the CoreTrustSeal is the most popular. With 104 repositories certified, according to their website. And more to come as, for example the EU supports the...

There are several ways to get certified, but...

TRUST article in SCIENTIFIC DATA

May 18, 2020

Just published: our article on TRUST in the Springer journal Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7...

Just published: our article on TRUST in the...

FAIR data assessment at RDA

March 6, 2019

Last week I attended the Research Data Alliance Fair Data Assesment Working Group in an online meeting. The concept of the FAIR data principles is getting more and more popular but the description of each principle...

Last week I attended the Research Data Alliance...

Certification changes: basic becomes core in the CoreTrustSeal

September 15, 2017

There is a new organization in the certification world for digital repositories: CoreTrustSeal.The new organization is replacing the original Data Seal of Approval community (consisting of a General Assembly, peer reviewers...

There is a new organization in the certification...

The benefits of certification

July 3, 2017

Under the umbrella of the Network Digital Heritage (NDE), a Dutch working group focused on certification. I reported earlier on their results. Following the European Framework of Certification (the website is not...

Under the umbrella of the Network Digital...

iPRES 2015 in Chapel Hill

November 15, 2015

Audit, CD-ROMS, Emulatie, Ingest, OAIS en Web, dat waren in alfabetische volgorde de meest besproken onderwerpen tijdens de jaarlijkse conferentie iPRES 2016, die vorige week plaatsvond in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dit is...

Audit, CD-ROMS, Emulatie, Ingest, OAIS en Web,...

Preparations for getting the certificate

August 10, 2015

In my last blog post I talked about the NCDD work package on Certification, a Dutch initiative in which 5 major memory institutions will get certified according to either DSA, or DIN (and in the future ISO 16363). One...

In my last blog post I talked about the NCDD work...

It’s getting serious: audit and certification

June 8, 2015

Last May the 3rd PTAB training for repository managers and potential auditors was given at the KB in the Hague in the Netherlands. The event was organized in collaboration with the National Coalition for Digital Preservation...

Last May the 3rd PTAB training for repository...

The gold standard

November 20, 2014

This is the text of a presentation I held at the combined 4C/DPC conference ‘Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future’ in London 17-18 November 2014 at the Wellcome Trust.A...

This is the text of a presentation I held at the...

Finally ISO 16919 is published, ISO auditing can start

November 3, 2014

I blogged before about the enormous amount of time it takes before a draft standard becomes an approved ISO standard and finally this week happened what we were waiting for: ISO officially published the ISO 16919 standard....

I blogged before about the enormous amount of...

Dasish Workshop on Audit and Certification

October 23, 2014

Last week I (partially) attended the Dasish Workshop on Audit and Certification in The Hague to give a presentation about the history and current status of the ISO 16363 standard Audit and Certification of Trustworthy...

Last week I (partially) attended the Dasish...

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