CoreTrustSeal is a community-based nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructures by offering professional certification tools and services for data repositories and preservation-focused institutions around the globe. As such, we strive to offer members of the community opportunities to provide suggestions and feedback concerning the CoreTrustSeal Requirements and the certification process. Such feedback helps us to ensure that CoreTrustSeal certification continues to address community needs for core-level certification. To this end, CoreTrustSeal Board also actively cooperates with and supports FAIR-related initiatives and projects such as FAIRsFAIR and FAIR-IMPACT.
We encourage all community members to convey their thoughts to us, either in response to CoreTrustSeal community consultations, via email, or via the contact form below.
2024 World Digital Preservation Day blogs
As part of the 2024 World Digital Preservation Day, several members of the CoreTrustSeal released blogs exploring metadata characteristics that could accompany CoreTrustSeal’s Curation & Preservation levels. Those blogs can be found here:
- Community-Driven Evolution of Repository Definitions & Descriptions. https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-herve-lhours-wdpd2024
- The best practices of digital preservation are built on cooperation. https://tietoarkistoblogi.blogspot.com/2024/11/digitaalisen-sailyttamisen-parhaat.html
- World Digital Preservation Day. https://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/world-digital-preservation-day
Community consultations
Open consultations
- CoreTrustSeal Standards & Certification Board. (2024). Types of Repository: Entities, Responsibilities, Objects. CoreTrustSeal Board Discussion Paper (v01.00). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13133041
Past consultations
- iPres Glasgow 2022. CoreTrustSeal 2023-2025: In a Preservation & Community Context. Calls for community feedback.[closed]
- Review of CoreTrustSeal Applicability to non-Preservation (Trustworthy) Data Services[closed]
- Network of Trustworthy Digital Repositories. Draft paper [closed]
- CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (2022 edition) Deadline end of September[closed]
- Long Term Digital Preservation Task Force (EOSC) Overview and Recommendations forthcoming for public feedback
- Curation & Preservation Levels: CoreTrustSeal Discussion Paper [closed]
- 2019 Review of Requirements [closed]
- Specialists, Generalists, and Technical Repository Service Providers [closed]
- Trustworthy Data Repository Requirements Review 2023-2025 [closed]