This working group aims to clarify the complementary relationship between TRUST Principles (TRUST) for digital repositories, certification processes, and metrics of other principle frameworks (e.g. FAIR, CARE, Desirable Characteristics, Data Repository Attributes). TRUST is not a criterion for certification. Instead, it is the principles of how repositories can demonstrate their trustworthiness to users. Actions include:
– A survey to determine what hesitancy exists in using the TRUST Principles
– Analysis of collected use cases to determine hesitancy
– Mapping of TRUST to the various data repository certifications
– Creation of guidelines on how to implement TRUST Principles
– The creation and launch of TRUST wiki
RDA Plenary presentations and working sessions include:
– RDA P18 (10 November 2021) OA Sponsored Birds of a Feather – The Future of “trustworthiness” and reliability of repositories and services: TRUST, FAIR, CARE
– RDA P20 (23 March 2023) RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG: TRUST Principles & Certification updates where the proposed TRUST Principles implementation working group shared its submitted work plan, adoption plan and timelines associated with the WG charter for community input and to encourage individuals to comment.
– During the public review and comment period, over 397 individuals downloaded and read the TRUST working group proposal and comments were provided.
– RDA Tiger support services application was submitted on 31 August 2023 and with notification of support received 26 September 2023.
– RDA P21st (26 October 2023) RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG: TRUST Principles and Repository Certification Landscape
Other presentations on this TRUST WG outside of RDA include:
– Goins, M., Lin, D. & Downs, R. (2022, December 22). TRUST Principles Inspire Digital Repositories to Serve Reusable Data for the Long Term. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Chicago, IL. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7473889
– Goins, M. (2023, September 21). Why TRUST matters and how you can get involved. iPRES, Champaign-Urbana, IL. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8380688
– Goins M. (2024, January 4). Moving us Towards TRUST: The Next Steps in Outreach and Adoption. American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, CA. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10459920
