Trustworthy Policies for Distributed Repositories

Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services

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September 2016, 133 pages, (doi:10.2200/S00732ED1V01Y201609ICR051)
Reagan W. Moore

DataNet Federation Consortium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Hao Xu

DataNet Federation Consortium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Mike Conway

DataNet Federation Consortium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Arcot Rajasekar

DataNet Federation Consortium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Jon Crabtree

DataNet Federation Consortium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Helen Tibbo

DataNet Federation Consortium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Abstract

A trustworthy repository provides assurance in the form of management documents, event logs, and audit trails that digital objects are being managed correctly. The assurance includes plans for the sustainability of the repository, the accession of digital records, the management of technology evolution, and the mitigation of the risk of data loss. A detailed assessment is provided by the ISO-16363:2012 standard, “Space data and information transfer systems—Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories.” This book examines whether the ISO specification for trustworthiness can be enforced by computer actionable policies. An implementation of the policies is provided and the policies are sorted into categories for procedures to manage externally generated documents, specify repository parameters, specify preservation metadata attributes, specify audit mechanisms for all preservation actions, specify control of preservation operations, and control preservation properties as technology evolves. An application of the resulting procedures is made to enforce trustworthiness within National Science Foundation data management plans.

Table of Contents: Preface / Acknowledgments / Introduction / Trustworthy Repository Description / ISO 16363 Organization Infrastructure / ISO 16363 Digital Object Management / ISO 16363 Infrastructure and Security Risk Management / Trustworthy Repository Implementation / Summary / References / Author Biographies

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