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Attributes of Trusted Digital RepositoriesIn early 2000 RLG and OCLC began discussing ways the two organizations could cooperate to create infrastructures for digital archiving. RLG took the lead in work to define and gain consensus on the characteristics of a sustainable digital archives for large-scale, heterogeneous collections held by research repositories. A group of jointly appointed international experts participated in the effort, which produced the May 2002 report, Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities. This document underlies further work by both our organizations, as well as serving many other institutions and organizations dealing with the long-term retention of digital materials. BackgroundIn 1994-96 the RLG-CPA-sponsored task force on archiving digital information began articulating the nature of a sustainable digital archives. The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems continued this work in the Reference Model for an Open Archive Information System (OAIS)—as have many groups and individual institutions since that are designing their own archiving systems. Expectations and designs are driven by the individual needs of the particular community a system will serve. RLG and OCLC sought to define the characteristics of a sustainable digital archives that could serve large-scale, heterogeneous collections held by such research repositories as national libraries, university libraries, special collections, archives, and museums—and to ensure international input and consensus for this definition. 2000-2002 RLG-OCLC Digital Archive Attributes Working GroupNeil Beagrie Charge
Community inputIn August 2001 we invited wide public feedback on a working draft from the group, Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources (which also earned a Scout Report selection). With this feedback and further guidance from the entire group, a subset of participants completed the final report. |
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