Working documents

• RAC-Charter-20070119.doc: Charter agreed at BoF 19 Jan 2007

• Working version of the Charter as a Wiki document

• Effort available sign up sheet

Reference/input documents

• Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) also available from the here
  • the earlier draft was: RLG/NARA Audit Checklist: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20769
• English version of the nestor criteria catalogue: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/series/nestor-materialien/8en/PDF/8en.pdf
• Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities from RLG and OCLC
• OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks

• The outcome of the related Chicago meeting is available here
  • Chicago_meeting.doc: Notes from a related meeting in Chicago 15-16 Jan 2007
  • Comparson of OAIS and Chicago meetings 10 points

• Ross_McHugh_Buetikofer_comments_RLGNARA_AUDIT_ver2.pdf: Comments on the DRAFT RLG/NARA Audit and Certification Checklist (the "DCC document")

• DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment) - see http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/

• TRAC-Nestor-DCC-criteria_mapping.doc: Crosswalk file between TRAC, Nestor and DCC work, which was completed by Robin Dale as a part of the Center for Research Libraries project

• Brief overview of standards and their associated certification processes Standards and certification overview

Taxonomies for Digital Repositories

• Three functional categories of digital data collections are described in the National Science Board report Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century (2005), including: Research Data Collections, Resource or Community Data Collections, Reference Data Collections
  • "Research data collections are the products of one or more focused research projects and typically contain data that are subject to limited processing or curation." (p. 20)
  • "Resource or community data collections serve a single science or engineering community." (p. 20)
  • "Reference data collections are intended to serve large segments of the scientific and education community." (p. 21)