Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories released

RLG has just released a draft report for the certification of digital
repositories. The draft, titled "An Audit Checklist for the Certification of
Trusted Digital Repositories," is available at
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20769.
It is the product of a task force working on a joint project between RLG and
the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

The goal of the RLG-NARA Digital Repository Certification project has been
to identify the criteria repositories must meet for reliably storing,
migrating, and providing access to digital collections. The "Audit
Checklist"
identifies procedures for certifying digital repositories.
Leveraging the RLG-NARA checklist, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Audit and Certification of Digital Archives project will test audit the
Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of the Netherlands), which
maintains the digital archive for Elsevier Science Direct Journals, the
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and
Portico, an archive for electronic journals incubated within Ithaka Harbors,
Inc.
Stanford's LOCKSS system will also participate in this effort.

Robin Dale, manager of both projects, says: "We look forward to receiving
comments on the draft and to hearing the response from the community."
Comments on the draft are due before mid-January 2006 to Robin.Dale@rlg.org
(+1-650-691-2238).

For more about the RLG-NARA task force, see
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=5441

[Taken from the PADI FORUM Mailing List]