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An Audit Checklist for the Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories
This draft report is the first guide for determining whether a digital repository can be certified as a trusted location for digital collections. Developed by a task force of experts assembled by RLG and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). RLG and NARA spearheaded this initiative as part of our continuing commitment to the needs of developing reliable repository certification procedures. As part of this goal, we will also play a key role in the auditing and certification of digital archives project undertaken by the Center for Research Libraries. This hands-on test of the audit checklist, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, runs through October 2006. For further information about digital repository certification. For staff working within repositories: The checklist is useful in helping them to determine the criteria they need to plan for and to meet for safely storing and migrating digital materials. For producers of digital materials: It also se...