This reports on Australia activity to certify repositories using the CoreTrustSeal certification for trust by ARDC. Presented at the Research Support Community Day 2021 (online).

1. FOR
Trusted Data Repositories - an
Australian Community of Practice
Richard Ferrers
Research Data Specialist, ARDC Melbourne
richard.ferrers@ardc.edu.au
Research Support Community Day 2021
Slides at: https://www.slideshare.net/RichardFerrers

2. A Trusted data repository
A long time ago… in a galaxy far, far away…
A Princess… entrusted a message… to a droid….
for an old knight….
CC-BY Jake Durham

3. Securing our precious data - trusted repository
NCRIS is a ten year $1.5billion
federal investment in national
research infrastructure and
FAIR outputs.

4. Storage and Compute
Nectar Research Cloud
National Node Storage
Data and Platforms
National Data Partnerships
Public Sector Bridges
Research Data Australia
BioCommons, EcoCommons
People and Policy
Engagement Team
Skills Team
Comms Team
Policy Team
contact@ardc.edu.au
Who is ARDC?
https://ardc.edu.au/collaborations/national-collaborations/
ARDC support high-impact research through FAIR data, tools, new skills and communities

5. Why is Trusted Data important?
What is Trusted Data? See 16 requirements.
Who are Core Trust Seal (CTS)?
What repositories are certified by CTS in Australia?
How is ARDC supporting CTS certification? EOI, Regular meetings, writing workshops
Should our repository get CTS certification? Who is certification relevant to?
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Outline

6. Publishers and funders are increasingly looking at data being deposited in cerfied Trusted Data Repositories
Eg EU report - Turning FAIR into reality (2018): FAIR action plan recommendations (78pp)
-> Culture, technology and skills for FAIR
=> Rec. 9 Develop Assessment Framework for FAIR services
=> Rec. 20 Deposit in Trusted Digital Repositories
Eg AGU Earth Science - CopDeSS (2014 -) “data, soeware are open, FAIR and curated in trusted domain repositories”
Who? - 11 publishers - 25 repositories - 4 instuons => 2018 - Enabling FAIR commitment statement
Similar Community of Pracce to support Trusted Data in:
US, Canada eg Portage - Canadian Associaon of Research Libraries, Japan, EU (eg FAIRsFAIR workshop)
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Why is Trusted Data important?

7. Organisational Infrastructure Digital Object Management Technology
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Core Trust Seal requirements
- what is Trusted Data?
R1 Mission to preserve data
R2 Licences
R3 Continuity Plan
R4 Ethical, Disciplinary norms
R5 Adequate funding, staffing
R6 Expert Guidance
R7 Data Integrity, Authenticity
R8 Data description for users
R9 Manage archival storage
R10 Long-term preservation
R11 Metadata quality for users
R12 Archiving workflows
R13 Data discovery, citable
R14 Enable reuse
R15 System,
Software
appropriate
R16 Secure
facilities
https://www.coretrustseal.org/why-certification/requirements/ PDF

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Sample requirement R15
PDF p27.

9. •Provide public evidence of processes, policies, resources, plans
•16 evolving requirements - max 500 - 800 words per requirement - evidence statements
•Assessed by a reviewer, (previously certified) like a journal article
•Application once approved become public - learn from earlier applications
•Eg search Australia for five public applications
•Expectation of continued improvement; ie not all controls in place
•Certification for three years, then need to re-certify
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Features of Core Trust Seal certification

10. “Building the social and technical bridges
to enable open sharing and re-use of
data” https://www.rd-alliance.org
CoreTrustSeal offers to any interested data repository a core level
certification based on the DSA–WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories
Requirements catalogue and procedures. RDA Adoption Story 2019
Who are CoreTrustSeal? – a Research Data Alliance
output

11. Certified: (Map)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Australian Data Archive (ANU)
Bureau of Meteorology
CSIRO - Data Access Portal
PARADISEC - Pacific Languages
Certifying: Drafting application
Australian Data Archive (re-certifying)
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Geoscience Australia
Integrated Marine Observation System (IMOS)
Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (UTAS)
University of Western Australia
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Australian Certified / Certifying Repositories
Interested but not yet drafting :
AURIN
AUSTLII
Potential special applications:
AARNET
NCI
Pawsey
Nectar
Figshare

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Australia Data Archive - RDA Adoption Story - RDA 2020

13. Supporting FAIR Data
Enhance processes; seeking new repository software - assist with writing specifications
Supporting community of data depositors and data re-users - want to enhance
trustworthiness
Required by Commitment to CopDeSS - Earth Science
Want to minimise the effort involved by sharing and learning along the way
Community of Practice - sharing, discussing, encouraging
Suggested effort: 0.3 FTE, but a working draft can be complete within one week (full-time)
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Should our repository seek CoreTrustSeal certification?

14. CONTACT
C/- Monash University
Caulfield VIC 3165
AUSTRALIA
+61 3 9902 0569
Richard.ferrers@ardc.edu.au
ardc.edu.au
How to join the Trusted Data Community? Email richard.ferrers@ardc.edu.au