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

• IETF Long-Term Archive and Notary Services (ltans) - http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ltans-charter.html
  • The objective of the LTANS working group is to define requirements, data structures and protocols for the secure usage of the necessary archive and notary services. First, the requirements for the long-term archive will be collected. Based on that information we will develop a protocol to access archive services supplying long-term non-repudiation for signed documents and define common data structures and formats. Upon completion of the archive-related specifications, we will address 'notary services' in a similar way. The term 'notary services' is not clearly defined. The working group will determine which functions need standards, including transformation of documents from one format to another without losing the value of evidence, electronic notarization, and further verification of legal validity of signed documents. We will determine the needs via the requirements paper and act upon the results accordingly.

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)

• OAIS-after-CCSDS-review.pdf: Updated OAIS reference Model after CCSDS review