Certification information on trustworthy digital repository websites: A content analysis.

ABSTRACT: In 1996, an international group of representatives from national archives and libraries, universities, industry, publishing offices, and other government and private sector organizations first articulated the need for certified Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs). Henceforth, multiple standards for TDRs have developed worldwide and their reviewers provide third party audit of digital repositories. Even though hundreds of repositories are currently certified, we do not know if audit and certification of TDRs actually matters. For example, we do not know if digital repositories are actually better at preserving digital information after certification than they were before. Additionally, we do not know if TDRs preserve digital information better than their counterparts, although TDR stand

SUBMITTER: Donaldson DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725354 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature