For Trusted Digital Repositories

CRL participates in the MOIMS (Mission Operations Information Management Services) Repository Audit and Certification Working Group and other work related to this that leads to the creation of auditing standards for digital repositories. For further information on the moims working group, please visit the moims-rac Wiki at : http://wiki.digitalrepositoryauditandcertification.org/bin/view.

The ISO/DIS 16363 (CCSDS 652-R-1) standard is based upon the Trusted Digital Repositories and Audit Checklist (TRAC) [http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdf]. The standard is titled the Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) Checklist. The current version, the magenta book from September of 2011 is available at [http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/652x0m1.pdf].

The International Standards Organization (ISO) technical committee (TC 20/SC 13) approved the standard for publication in March of 2012. In addition to the TDR, the working group wrote and submitted ISO 16919, entitled, Requirements for Bodies providing Audit and Certification  [http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/652x1m1.pdf]. This document is intended to guide the creation of organizations to govern the process, audit repositories and educate auditors. This document is also under review by ISO's technical committee (TC 20/SC 13). 

Related Work

APARSEN Project - Building on the Alliance for Permanent Access (APA) [http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/current-projects/aparsen] - a membership organization of major European stakeholders in digital data and digital preservation. This project, funded by the European Union, combines and integrates European Digital preservation efforts into a shared enterprise. The goal is to create a virtual research centre in digital preservation for Europe. The Joint Programme of Activity will lead to the integration digital preservation research activities into one common vision with common agreement on : terminology, evidence standards, services needed for preservation, access and  re-use of data holdings over the whole lifecycle. Other consideration will be legal and economic issues, including costs, governance issues and digital rights in digital preservation. 

PTAB Working Group - An informal group of individuals involved in the development of TDR who are working on the testing of the Checklist. PTAB's work includes test audits, and further defining the process for certifying digital repositories. Some members of the group also participated in developing the TDR and the Requirements for Bodies providing Audit and Certification documents. See the announcement of a meeting held by some of those participating in the U.S. PTAB group. http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=4697