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The Development of a Standard for Digital Repository Certification
Bruce Ambacher
National Archives and Records Administration
Mission: Preserve digital information
• Problem: ensuring digital information is accessible, usable, preserved
• Problem: Digital repositories claim to be capable
• Problem: No valid measure to apply
The Sponsors: NARA
• First national archives to preserve digital archives (April 1970)
• Largest collection of archival digital holdings
• Electronic Records Archives – multi-year, multi-Exabyte digital repository, operational in 2007
• Concern for content, context, authenticity
The Sponsors: RLG
• Preserving Digital Information (1996) with the Commission on Preservation and Access
• Trusted Digital Repositories (2002)
• 30 years of standards and best practices in access and preservation
The Working Group
• RLG, NARA, national libraries of U.S., Netherlands, & France, NASA, OCLC, Internet Archives, Harvard, Stanford,, Cornell, University of London, Digital Preservation Coalition, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories
Project Goal
• Devise a methodology to identify digital repositories capable of reliably storing, migrating, and providing access to digital collections, capable of winning our trust in their capacity and ability to preserve digital information.
• Produce certification requirements• Delineate a process for certification• Identify a certifying body to implement process
Methodology Used to Date
• Review recent literature
• Review and address certification options from other disciplines
• Identify a list of certifiable elements
• Create a standard certification process or framework
Draft Checklist - Organization
• Governance and Organizational Viability
• Organizational structure and staffing
• Procedural accountability and policy
• Financial stability
• Contracts, licenses, liabilities
Draft Checklist – Archival Functions
• Ingesting Submission Information Packages (SIP)
• Transforming SIPs to Archival Information Packages (AIP)
• Archival Storage
• Preservation Planning
• Data Migration
Typical Questions
• B2.7 Repository provides an independent mechanism for audit of the integrity of the repository collection/content
• B3.1 Repository has documented preservation strategies
• B3.2 Repository implements/responds to strategies for AIP storage and migration
• B3.7 Repository actively monitors AIP integrity
Draft Checklist – Designated Community
• Repository has in place procedures to specify a Designated Community
• Repository has in place procedures to monitor changes in Designated Community
• Repository meets changing technology needs of Designated Community
Draft Checklist - Technologies
• Archival Storage and its infrastructure
• System infrastructure
• System security
• Disaster planning
Unresolved Issues
• Do best practices vary by domain?
• What attributes will be certified?
• Is an official certifying body needed? If so who will designate this body? How will people be qualified as certifiers?
• What role will repositories play in developing/revising the certification criteria?
Current Status
• 09/30/05 – 01/15/06 Public Review of draft Audit Checklist for the Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories
• 09/30/05 – 01/15/06 Field testing of draft checklist
• 01/15/06 Review of comments and field test results and revision of Audit Checklist
• Standardization through ISO Archiving
Backup
Task
• Identify certifying body or bodies• Identify a timetable for execution &
adherence• Identify frequency or cycle of certification• Define the conditions for revocation• Create technical models• Create economic models for sustainablility• Create implementation scenarios