Eye On CoreTrustSeal - Recommendations for Criterion R0 from Digital Preservation and Research Data Management Perspectives

Abstract: The CoreTrustSeal (CTS) is an accepted trustworthy digital repository certification process for both, research data management and digital preservation communities alike. But does it build on concepts known and understood by both of these communities? We take an in-depth look at the CTS requirement R0 - Background Information / Context, in which the applicants are asked to define their repository type, designated community and level of curation performed. By extracting information from the publicly available assessment reports and cross-checking these against available supporting information, we reflect on CTS from three viewpoints: the process, the institutional, and the community view. We distill concrete recommendations, which will be fed back to the CTS Board as part of the 2019 public call for review. This record includes the paper and the presentation held at iPRES2019. The accompanying dataset can be found at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.326768