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Trustworthy digital repositories, their audit and certification

Summary: The aim of the submitted article consists in informing the reader about the importance and the attributes of reliable repositories and in describing, by way of an overview, the most common types of approach to the audit and certification of digital repositories meeting the requirement of trustworthiness. It is based upon the previous research within the Cesnet project, and namely Pilot Project of Low-barrier Approach to the Protection of Digital Contents (LTP-pilot) and the publication activities of the author, in particular her PhD thesis Analysis, draft, administration and control of vast digital libraries, as defended at the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship of the Charles University in Prague in 2014.


Keywords: trustworthy repository, digital libraries, ISO 14721, Data Seal of Approval, European framework for auditing and certification of digital repositories, Nestor, ČSN ISO 16363, audit a certification of a digital repository

Mgr. Andrea Miranda, Ph.D. / Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Ústřední Knihovna (Charles University in Prague, Central Library), Ovocný trh 560/5, 116 36 Praha 1

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Nov 02, 2016
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