Introduction Helena Cousijn, Claire Austin & Michael Diepenbroek WDS/RDA Publishing Data IG WDS/RDA Certification of Digital Repositories IG Assessment of Data Fitness for Use Introduction Helena Cousijn, Claire Austin & Michael Diepenbroek
Objective Assessment of the fitness of use for individual data sets Covering all possible facets Reliable & comprehensive Efficient application High impact & visibility Defragmentation of current efforts
Initiatives RDA/WDS Data Publishing Workflows WG Certification of data centers/repositories FAIR principles GEO label facets Literature!
Terms – what does it mean? Glossaries Data Quality Vocabulary, W3C Working Group Note Science Europe Data Glossary RDA Term Definition Tool (TeD-T) Standard Glossary for Research Data Management (IRIDIUM) Data quality „degree to which a set of characteristics of data fulfills requirements” (ISO 9000) Any data are usable as long as they fit the purpose Assessment of usability implies definition of requirements
Criteria I Inherent properties Non-inherent properties objectively verifiable or even measurable e.g. validity of used methodologies, completeness of metadata Non-inherent properties ~subjective descriptions assigned to data e.g. social tagging, downloads as indicator to data quality
Criteria II properties directly related to data objects E.g. PIDs, citation, precision of data values properties related to data accessibility E.g. quality of services for data discovery and interoperability properties characterizing data management processes E.g. Data management workflows, tools, human resources! Not transparent to users
Workplan 2017-08 - Terminology & Definition of Terms 2017-12 - Pilot assessment of criteria 2017-02 - Development/design of badge system and integration with current certification schemes 2018-08 - Concept for integration of data repository service components. Piloting Integration of badge system 2018-10 – Draft article for peer-reviewed journal
Application & Roles for a badge system Certification Reviewer Data center/repository Curation Downloads, social tagging Users Current approaches Practicalities! F A I R 2 User Reviews 1 Archivist Assessment 24 Downloads