Criteria for Trustworthiness and Standards

Criteria for Trustworthiness
and Standards
Introduction by Michael Seadle
Humboldt University
Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle,
Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin SS 2006
Why Certify Trustworthiness?
• Digital objects are easily altered, so their integrity and
authenticity is hard to prove.
• No digital instance is truly „original“ in the way that a
physical document can be original (though phsyical
objects can also be forged or altered).
• This panel offers various models.
Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle
Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Automated Trustworthiness testing
• LOCKSS = Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
• Support from about 100 Libraries in the US and UK;
LOCKSS servers also in Germany.
• Funding from National Science Foundation, JISC,
Library of Congress, and Mellon Foundation as well as
member libraries.
• Archiving experience since 1998.
• Integrity and migration testing since 2000
Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle
Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
LOCKSS Testing Model
• Ongoing server-to-server intregity testing.
• Assumption that you cannot and should not trust any
one institution or server.
Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle
Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
DINI Certificate
• Ute Schwens mentioned the DINI Trusted Repository
Certificate.
• DINI is also collaborating with CRL.
Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle
Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Marie-Elise Waltz
• Center for Research Libraries, Chicago
• Worked on CRL‘s certification project since ist inception.
• Former head of access services at San Diego County
Law Library.
• ALA Instructional Techology committee.
• MLS from Indiana University.
• Title: Tailoring Certification to user Requirements:
Applications of the Trustworthy Digital Preservation
Repositories (TRAC) Instrument and Methodology
Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle
Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Andrea Scotti
• Scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. And
Experience in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Rumania, Germany
• Consultant at Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza,
Florence, Italy and visiting professor at the University of
Bologna in Computing and the Humanities.
• Title: Web Standards in Europe: institutional bodies and
metadata policies in the EU
Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle
Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin