Center for Research Libraries Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories

Center for Research Libraries Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funding May 2005 through October 2006 Bernard F. Reilly, CRL, Principal Investigator Robin Dale, RLG, Project Director

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Questions: 1. What are the metrics, methodology, processes needed for evaluation of digital repositories? 2. How is this activity to be supported on an ongoing basis?

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Content and data maintained by: 1.Producers 2.Communities of interest 3.Third parties

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Threats: 1.Loss or corruption of data/content 2.Loss or interruption of access to data/content

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Factors: Content characteristics Ingestion Technical architecture Organization Governance Cost Structure Rights Designated Communities

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Repositories: 1.Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) 2.Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) 3.Portico

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Process: Engagement Pre-audit analysis Two-day on-site audit Follow-up Analysis Reporting

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Also: 1.LOCKSS 2.NewsBank

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Challenges: Variety of repository functions and user needs Range of content valuation

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Auditing vs. Analysis Certification vs. Structured Disclosure

Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories