Copyright 2019. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Meeting the Challenges of the TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories Robert R. Downs 1 NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, 1 rdowns@ciesin.columbia.edu Prepared for Presentation to the 2020 ESIP Summer Meeting July 14-24, 2020, Virtual Event July 17, 2020 Poster Session The work reported here has been supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Contract 80GSFC18C0111 for the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Endorsement of the TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories* References Certification Programs CoreTrustSeal (2020) Nestor (2013) Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories. ISO 16363/CCSDS 652.0-M-1, https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/652x0m1.pdf (2011). CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements. 2020. https://www.coretrustseal.org/why-certification/requirements/ ESIP Data Management Training Clearinghouse. 2020. https://dmtclearinghouse.esipfed.org/ Lehnert et al. 2019. Building Resilience by Sharing Infrastructure Among Data Facilities: An Initiative of the EarthCube Council of Data Facilities. https://agu2019fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=A6-0C-96-FA-24-07-F6-36-77-00-78-35-E6-7C-AC-51 Lin, D., et al. The TRUST Principles for digital repositories. Sci Data 7, 144 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7 Harmsen, H. et al. Explanatory notes on the Nestor seal for trustworthy digital archives. Nestor Certification Working Group, http://nbn- resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0008-2013100901 (2013). Wilkinson, MD. et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Sci. Data 3, 160018 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fsdata.2016.18 Transparency To be transparent about specific repository services and data holdings that are verifiable by publicly accessible evidence. Responsibility To be responsible for ensuring the authenticity and integrity of data holdings and for the reliability and persistence of its service. User Focus To ensure that the data management norms and expectations of target user communities are met. Sustainability To sustain services and preserve data holdings for the long-term. Technology To provide infrastructure and capabilities to support secure, persistent, and reliable services. *Reproduced from Lin, et al., 2020. The TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories. Digital repositories, including scientific data centers, archives, and other data facilities must provide stewardship for the resources that they have been entrusted to manage and disseminate for their user communities. The tenets of transparency, responsibility, user focus, sustainability, and technology that are described in the TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories offer guidance for meeting the needs of users who can use research data, today, as well as succeeding generations of users (Lin, et al., 2020). Developed by several stakeholders from across the digital preservation and research data stewardship community, the TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories can be built upon by the broader community of data stewards to ensure that the data that are being collected now and in the future will be treated as valuable intellectual assets so that they are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, as articulated in the FAIR Principles (Wilkinson, et al., 2016). Diligent digital curation and stewardship efforts will help to ensure that research data products and services can be used to continue scientific progress and achieve the societal benefits that such research can provide. Along with future stewards of research data and related resources, the digital repository professio