A curated list of Trusted Digital Repositories and their audit reports.
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About
Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) is a term used to refer to a library or archive of digital information objects that has undergone a formal audit of its long-term content management and digital preservation capacity. This helps to assure users of its collections that its data is authentic, trusthworthy and usable.
A TDR audit takes into account a number of technical, organizational, and economic factors to determine whether a given repository can be trusted to deal with long-term threats to the preservation and accessibility of the digital information objects in its care (e.g. documents, photos, videos, datasets, etc).
Three well-known TDR auditing agencies are the Centre for Research Libraries (CRL), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Organizations may use the requirements from one of these agencies to do a self-audit as a way to gauge their internal readiness and maturity. To achieve a higer-level of crediblity and accountability, an organization will hire auditors certified by CRL, RDA, or ISO to perform an external audit.
TDR auditing standards
- CRL TRAC: Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist
- RDA CoreTrustSeal Core Trust Seal
- ISO 16363:2012: Space data and information transfer systems — Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories
RDA audited TDRs
There are at least 175 Core Trust Seal certified TDRs that have been audited by the Research Data Alliance.
CLR audited TDRs
| Repository | Year | Report |
|---|---|---|
| ICPSR | 2006 | report |
| Portico | 2010 | report |
| Hathi Trust | 2011 | report |
| Chronopolis | 2012 | report |
| Scholar's Portal | 2013 | report |
| CLOCKSS | 2014 | report |
| canadiana.ca | 2015 | report |
Self audited TDRs
| Repository | Year | Report |
|---|---|---|
| MetaArchive | 2010 | report |
| Northern Arizona University | 2014 | report |
| University of North Texas Library | 2015 | report |