06
Dec
2013
Groups audience:
Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached to this post the draft Case Statement of the DSA–WDS Partnership Working Group on Certification submitted today for comments to the RDA Community until end-December. It will then be submitted to the RDA as an RDA Working Group under the umbrella of the Repository Audit and Certification Interest Group by mid-January.
With best regards.
Mustapha Mokrane
On behalf of the Co-chairs of the Repository Audit and Certification Interest Group—Michael Diepenbroek and Ingrid Dillo— and on behalf of the Co-chairs of the DSA–WDS Partnership Working Group—Lesley Rickards and Mary Vardigan.
- Draft DSA–WDS Partnership Working Group Case Statement for RDA Community comments
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Mustapha Mokrane, PhD. | Executive Director
World Data System-International Programme Office
c/o NICT, 4-2-1 Nukui-kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
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Author: Reagan Moore
Date: 06 Dec, 2013
The impact of the working group will be significantly extended if the ISO 16363 trustworthiness assessment criteria are included in the comparison. These criteria signficantly overlap with the proposed study.
There is also strong overlap with the Practical Policy working group. This includes an effort to implement policies that automate enforcement of assessment criteria, and automate validation of the assessment criteria. A joint set of policy recommendations would be a significant accomplishment.
Reagan Moore
Practical Policy working group
Author: Mary Vardigan
Date: 12 Dec, 2013
The DSA-WDS Partnership candidate working group agrees that extending the comparison to include ISO 16363 trustworthiness assessment criteria is a worthwhile goal. In fact, we have discussed this as an objective of a second phase of the project, so we are pleased to hear that this idea is of interest to the Practical Policy working group.
For the current project period, however, the DSA-WDS group wants to keep the scope as written in the current case statement with the comparison covering basic certification criteria only. We want to ensure that we can accomplish our aims and deliver on our planned outputs, which are already ambitious. Further, given that the more "lightweight" basic certification approach can be an entry point to more advanced certification procedures for smaller data centers, and given that supporting these smaller data providers is in keeping with the inclusive nature of the RDA, we think a phased approach starting at the basic level makes the most sense.
Automating validation and enforcement of assessment criteria is intriguing, and we are interested in learning more about that and collaborating with the Practical Policy group in the future.