The UK Data Service response to the CoreTrustSeal
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 3:33 am
Darren Bell, Hervé L’Hours and Matthew Woollard introduce the CoreTrustSeal and the UK Data Service’s response to their consultation with specialists, generalists, and technical repository service providers.
Providing a trustworthy digital repository (TDR) for our depositors and users forms part of the UK Data Service mission.
We’ve been part of the efforts to develop TDR pakistan rcs data standards for many years and through our UK Data Archive partner have been accredited to both the CoreTrustSeal and its predecessor standards. We provide disciplinary expertise around data of interest to social scientists and others, and in our experience domain expertise provides the best route for:
But a range of other actors help support the full research data lifecycle and the CoreTrustSeal has increasingly seen a wider interest in their standard.
As a community-driven organisation a consultation process began which may result in changes to the requirements or certification approach in future versions of the CoreTrustSeal. The consultation asks for feedback on how CoreTrustSeal can best support specialists (domain/disciplinary repositories) alongside more generalist repositories and those providing ‘technical repository services’.
As a trustworthy digital repository for the social sciences, a holder of a broad collection of Census, international and economic data, a self-deposit service provider and partner to other repositories and services, the UK Data Service has an interest in seeing all of these actors supported. But this support must also ensure that the levels of curation and preservation, and the resultant impact of the data services, remains transparent to data depositors, funders and users. The text below is adapted from our feedback to the CoreTrustSeal Board.
Providing a trustworthy digital repository (TDR) for our depositors and users forms part of the UK Data Service mission.
We’ve been part of the efforts to develop TDR pakistan rcs data standards for many years and through our UK Data Archive partner have been accredited to both the CoreTrustSeal and its predecessor standards. We provide disciplinary expertise around data of interest to social scientists and others, and in our experience domain expertise provides the best route for:
But a range of other actors help support the full research data lifecycle and the CoreTrustSeal has increasingly seen a wider interest in their standard.
As a community-driven organisation a consultation process began which may result in changes to the requirements or certification approach in future versions of the CoreTrustSeal. The consultation asks for feedback on how CoreTrustSeal can best support specialists (domain/disciplinary repositories) alongside more generalist repositories and those providing ‘technical repository services’.
As a trustworthy digital repository for the social sciences, a holder of a broad collection of Census, international and economic data, a self-deposit service provider and partner to other repositories and services, the UK Data Service has an interest in seeing all of these actors supported. But this support must also ensure that the levels of curation and preservation, and the resultant impact of the data services, remains transparent to data depositors, funders and users. The text below is adapted from our feedback to the CoreTrustSeal Board.