End-users’ trust in data repositories: Definition and influences on trust development

While repositories’ efforts to build trustworthy digital repositories (TDRs) led to the establishment of ISO standards, much less research has been done regarding the user’s side, despite calls for an understanding of users’ trust of TDRs. In order to learn about users’ perspectives on trust in digital repositories, the present study investigated users’ definitions of trust and factors that influence users’ trust development, particularly addressing the users of three data repositories in the United States. A total of 19 participants were interviewed in this study. The results of this study indicate that users’ definition of trust is largely based on a lack of deception, when it comes down to the specific context of data repositories. Regarding factors influencing the development of users’ trust in repositories, organizational attributes, user communities (recommendations and frequent use), past experiences, repository processes (documentation, data cleaning, and quality checking), and users’ perception of the repository roles were identified. End users' trust in data repositories: Definition and influences on trust development (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257519904_End_users%27_trust_in_data_repositories_Definition_and_influences_on_trust_development [accessed Jul 26, 2017]

Building and maintaining trust in clinical decision support: Recommendations from the Patient‐Centered CDS Learning Network

Knowledge artifacts in digital repositories for clinical decision support (CDS) can promote the use of CDS in clinical practice. However, stakeholders will benefit from knowing which they can trust before adopting artifacts from knowledge repositories. We discuss our investigation into trust for knowledge artifacts and repositories by the Patient‐Centered CDS Learning Network’s Trust Framework Working Group (TFWG). The TFWG identified 12 actors (eg, vendors, clinicians, and policy makers) within a CDS ecosystem who each may play a meaningful role in prioritizing, authoring, implementing, or evaluating CDS and developed 33 recommendations distributed across nine “trust attributes.” The trust attributes and recommendations represent a range of considerations such as the “Competency” of knowledge artifact engineers and the “Organizational Capacity” of institutions that develop and implement CDS. The TFWG findings highlight an initial effort to make trust explicit and embedded within CDS knowledge artifacts and repositories and thus more broadly accepted and used.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154962/1/lrh210208.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154962/2/lrh210208_am.pd

The TRUST Principles for digital repositories.

As information and communication technology has become pervasive in our society, we are increasingly dependent on both digital data and repositories that provide access to and enable the use of such resources. Repositories must earn the trust of the communities they intend to serve and demonstrate that they are reliable and capable of appropriately managing the data they hold. Following a year-long public discussion and building on existing community consensus1, several stakeholders, representing various segments of the digital repository community, have collaboratively developed and endorsed a set of guiding principles to demonstrate digital repository trustworthiness. Transparency, Responsibility, User focus, Sustainability and Technology: the TRUST Principles provide a common framework to facilitate discussion and implementation of best practice in digital preservation by all stakeholders.Proyecto de Enlace de Biblioteca

Digital repositories: concepts and issues

Digital repositories have become an increasingly recognized means of digitally archiving and enabling access to digital information. The long-term survival, value and usability of the information stored within digital repositories depends on numerous criteria such as the formats selected for storage, the capture of associated metadata, proactive preservation measures, and the perceived trust in the repository itself. Repositories are important for universities and colleges in helping to manage and capture intellectual assets as a part of their information strategy. A digital repository can hold a wide range of materials for a variety of purposes and users. It can support research, learning, and administrative processes. However, repository solutions are most viable and sustainable when they are built on open standards

Quality in digital repositories. The TRUST principles for data repositories

El presente trabajo pretende dar a conocer los principios TRUST que dan directrices para considerar confiables a los repositorios de datos. Estos principios abarcan la Transparencia, la Responsabilidad, el Foco en el Usuario, la Sostenibilidad y la Tecnología, y presentan un marco común para guiar a los gestores de repositorios de datos en la implementación de las mejores prácticas en cuanto a preservación digital. Para lograr el objetivo propuesto se dan definiciones para el área, conceptos vinculados a la calidad, normativa vigente para auditoría y certificación y finalmente, se explican y ejemplifican los modos de cumplir con los mencionados principios que aseguran que los datos almacenados son FAIR es decir que son datos encontrables, accesibles, interoperables y reusables por cualquier comunidad de modo de avanzar hacia una ciencia abierta, participativa y socialmente comprometida.This work presents TRUST principles, which provide guidelines for trustworthy data repositories. These principles, namely, Transparency, Responsibility, User Community and Sustainability, and Technology (TRUST), set a shared framework to guide repository managers in implementing the best practices for Digital Preservation. In order to achieve this goal, domain definitions are provided, along with concepts related to quality, current regulations for auditing and certification. Finally, this work also explains –with illustrative examples– how to comply with the aforementioned principles and thus ensure the data stored in the repositories are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) by any community to move towards an open, participatory and socially responsible science.Facultad de Informátic

nestor endorsement of TRUST Principles

Nestor - the German-speaking competence network for digital preservation - welcomes the TRUST principles as outlined in the white paper (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7) and joins the call for endorsement by the Research Data Alliance (https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-community-effort-trust-principles-digital-repositories). nestor clearly sees the need for further development of the principles as they move into practise. As part of this, an ad-hoc WG TRUST discussed the principled and has released the statement "nestor endorsement of TRUST Principles". Benefits and recommendations at a glace • provides a common framework to facilitate discussion by all stakeholders • mnemonic helps to raise awareness • provides a low-threshold entry point • principles do not convey a sufficiently comprehensive picture of the requirements • preservation planning and suitable long-term preservation strategies are missing • TRUST Principles must be linked with established and accepted criteria suited to measuring trust-worthines

The Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories

This article arises from work by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Working Group examining mechanisms to roll out audit and certification services for digital repositories in the United Kingdom. Our attempt to develop a program for applying audit and certification processes and tools took as its starting point the RLG-NARA Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories. Our intention was to appraise critically the checklist and conceive a means of applying its mechanics within a diverse range of repository environments. We were struck by the realization that while a great deal of effort has been invested in determining the characteristics of a 'trusted digital repository', far less effort has concentrated on the ways in which the presence of the attributes can be demonstrated and their qualities measured. With this in mind we sought to explore the role of evidence within the certification process, and to identify examples of the types of evidence (e.g., documentary, observational, and testimonial) that might be desirable during the course of a repository audit.

Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories: Creating a Mandate for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

The article examines the issues surrounding the audit and certification of digital repositories in light of the work that the RLG/NARA Task Force did to draw up guidelines and the need for these guidelines to be validated.

Critique of Architectures for Long-Term Digital Preservation

Evolving technology and fading human memory threaten the long-term intelligibility of many kinds of documents. Furthermore, some records are susceptible to improper alterations that make them untrustworthy. Trusted Digital Repositories (TDRs) and Trustworthy Digital Objects (TDOs) seem to be the only broadly applicable digital preservation methodologies proposed. We argue that the TDR approach has shortfalls as a method for long-term digital preservation of sensitive information. Comparison of TDR and TDO methodologies suggests differentiating near-term preservation measures from what is needed for the long term. TDO methodology addresses these needs, providing for making digital documents durably intelligible. It uses EDP standards for a few file formats and XML structures for text documents. For other information formats, intelligibility is assured by using a virtual computer. To protect sensitive information—content whose inappropriate alteration might mislead its readers, the integrity and authenticity of each TDO is made testable by embedded public-key cryptographic message digests and signatures. Key authenticity is protected recursively in a social hierarchy. The proper focus for long-term preservation technology is signed packages that each combine a record collection with its metadata and that also bind context—Trustworthy Digital Objects.