Self-assessment of the Digital Repository at the State and University Library, Denmark - a Case Study: Paper

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Organisations with a commitment to long-term digital preservation need to be perceived as trustworthy to meet the demands of their stakeholders. Audit and certification procedures provide a means to transparency and trustworthiness. The State and University Library has worked with trustworthiness for several years using different tools. In this paper, we describe the process and the benefits of performing an audit based on self-assessment by the use of ISO 16363 on the digital repository of the State and University Library. After describing the digital collections, DP organisation, policy framework and repository infrastructure it is explained how The State and University Library has been working with trustworthiness over the last four to five years. The latter part of the paper describes how we have conducted a self-assessment of the digital repository by the means of the ISO standard 16363. We explain some of the challenges of the work and the immediate effects of the process, which, at the time of writing, is not finished yet.

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Elstrøm, Gry; Junge, Jette

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iso 16363; self-assessment; audit; metrics; digital preservation; metadata

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paper

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