The document outlines the EUDAT initiative, which focuses on long-term data curation and preservation, supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. It details guidelines and standards for trustworthy digital repositories, including ISO certification and the Data Seal of Approval, and emphasizes the importance of maintaining data access and integrity. Additionally, it highlights upcoming EUDAT summer school events and exercises designed to enhance skills in data repository management.

1. www.eudat.eu
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Long-term data curation,
aka data preservation
Marjan Grootveld, DANS
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Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence
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2. Two questions
1. What is the oldest
data that you have
used or looked at,
i.e. not generated by
you?
2. Where did you find it?

3. Long-term preservation
* Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. Reference Model for an Open
Archival Information System (OAIS). Recommended Practice -- CCSDS 650.0-M-2.
Magenta Book, June 2012.
https://public.ccsds.org/pubs/650x0m2.pdf

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Climatological database for the world’s oceans
Image copied from https://www.knmi.nl/kennis-en-datacentrum/achtergrond/cliwoc
Every yellow dot represents a ship report.
Project web site: http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/cliwoc/

5. Viking Mars Lander
5
http://www.dpconline.org/docman/miscellaneous/advocacy/340-mind-the-gap-assessing-digital-preservation-
needs-in-the-uk/file Data now available from https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/volumes/viking.html

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Institute of
Dutch Academy
and Research
Funding
Organisation
(KNAW & NWO)
since 2005
First predecessor
dates back to
1964 (Steinmetz
Foundation),
Historical Data
Archive 1989
Mission: promote
and provide
permanent
access to digital
research
resources
DANS organisation

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DANS long-term data archive
EASY
Certified Long-
term Archive
https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/

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DANS and DSA
• 2005: DANS to promote and provide permanent
access to digital research resources
• Formulate quality guidelines for digital data
repositories including DANS
• 2006: 5 basic principles as basis for 16 DSA guidelines
• 2009: international DSA Board
• Almost 70 seals acquired around the globe, but with
a focus on Europe

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The Certification Pyramid
ISO 16363:2012 - Audit and
certification of trustworthy digital
repositories
http://www.iso16363.org/
DIN 31644 standard “Criteria for
trustworthy digital archives”
http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de
http://www.datasealofapproval.org/
https://www.icsu-wds.org/
http://trusteddigitalrepository.eu/

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DSA and WDS: look-a-likes
Communalities:
• Lightweight, self assessment, community review
Complementarity:
• Geographical spread
• Disciplinary spread

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Coming soon:

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Part of CTS’s 16 requirements
R2. The repository maintains all applicable licenses covering data access and use
and monitors compliance.
R3. The repository has a continuity plan to ensure ongoing access to and
preservation of its holdings.
R4. The repository ensures, to the extent possible, that data are created, curated,
accessed, and used in compliance with disciplinary and ethical norms.
R7. The repository guarantees the integrity and authenticity of the data.
R8. The repository accepts data and metadata based on defined criteria to ensure
relevance and understandability for data users.
R10. The repository assumes responsibility for long-term preservation and manages
this function in a planned and documented way.
R11. The repository has appropriate expertise to address technical data and
metadata quality and ensures that sufficient information is available for end users to
make quality-related evaluations.
R13. The repository enables users to discover the data and refer to them in a
persistent way through proper citation.
R14. The repository enables reuse of the data over time, ensuring that appropriate
metadata are available to support the understanding and use of the data.

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Guidance document
For
aspiring repositories
reviewers
Also about
data producers
data users
Requirements 1–16

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Levels of curation
Plus R0: context and “Level of Curation Performed”
”All levels of curation assume initial deposits are retained unchanged (…) edits are only
made on copies of those originals.”
“Annotations/edits must fall within the terms of the licence agreed with the data
producer...”
“the repository will be expected to demonstrate that any such annotations/edits are
undertaken and documented by appropriate experts”

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Exercise
Download the Draft CoreTrustSeal Guidance
document, read the guidance about Requirements
10, 7 and 14, and answer the following questions:
Ad R10: what does this mean for you as a data
producer?
Ad R7: next time you look for a repository to deposit
or reuse data, will it differ from last Tuesday? How?
Ad R14: what does this mean for you as a data
reuser?

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Preservation isn’t rocket
science.
It’s a profession in the
trust business.
Knossos – M. Grootveld

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Acknowledgements:
Thanks to Ingrid Dillo (DANS) for slides
Outlook:
a pilot for scoring the FAIRness
of existing datasets
Author:
Marjan Grootveld, DANS
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence
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