[Rdap] One Step Closer to ISO Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories

[Mark Conrad]

ISO 16919 -- Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of
candidate trustworthy digital repositories was published on 29 October
2014. This is another major milestone on the road to ISO certification of
Trustworthy Digital Repositories.

In 2003 ISO published ISO 14721 -- Open archival information system --
Reference model. This standard was subsequently revised in 2012. Shortly
after the original version of the OAIS Reference Model was published
repositories began declaring themselves OAIS compliant. At that time there
was no standard to effectively measure these claims.

In 2012 ISO published ISO 16363 – Audit and certification of trustworthy
digital repositories. This standard  lists criteria a trustworthy digital
repository should meet.

The newly published ISO 16919 provides specific requirements for the
organizations that will carry out audits and certifications of digital
repositories. It complements ISO/IEC 17021.

>From the ISO website:

ISO/IEC 17021 provides the bulk of the requirements on bodies offering
audit and certification for general types of management systems. However,
for each specific type of system, specific additional requirements will be
needed, for example, to specify the standard against which the audit is to
be made and the qualifications which auditors require.

ISO 16919:2014 provides the (small number of) specific additions required
for bodies providing audit and certification of candidate trustworthy
digital repositories. Trustworthy here means that they can be trusted to
maintain, over the long-term, the understandability and usability of
digitally encoded information placed into their safekeeping.

Once auditing organizations have been accredited and auditors have been
trained concerning these standards it will be possible to certify
Trustworthy Digital Repositories to an ISO standard.
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