Release of the CoreTrustSeal Documentation Suite / Lancement de la suite documentaire CoreTrustSeal

[Julie]

(Bilingual Message / Message bilingue - With apologies for cross posting!)

Release of the CoreTrustSeal Documentation Suite

We are pleased to announce the launch of the CoreTrustSeal Documentation Suite. The Documentation Suite is the result of a detailed review by Borealis and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s Preservation Expert Group. It is intended to support Borealis participants and data repositories across Canada and the world with CoreTrustSeal certification and research data preservation efforts more broadly. 

CoreTrustSeal (CTS) certification signifies that a digital repository is trustworthy, sustainable, and meets the highest standards of data management and preservation. In the past year, the University of Victoria Libraries Dataverse and University of Manitoba Dataverse in Borealis achieved CoreTrustSeal certification as Trustworthy Data Repositories.

The Documentation Suite responds to the 2023-2025 certification requirements and includes policy templates to support the management of institutional collections in Borealis, as well as an application template to support institutions interested in applying for CoreTrustSeal certification:

• Borealis Institutional Collection Policy Template
• Borealis Institutional Collection Deposit Guidelines
• Borealis Institutional Collection Curation Framework
• Borealis Institutional Collection Retention and Deaccession Policy Template
• Borealis Preservation Documentation Template
• Borealis Policy Framework Diagram
• Glossary of Terms for Use with Borealis Institutional Collection Policy Templates
• Borealis CTS Certification Application Template (French version forthcoming)

These templates build on previous work by Borealis and the Alliance based on the 2020-2022 requirements.

The Documentation Suite and more information about the project are available on SPOTDocs.

For any questions or comments, please contact the Borealis team. Thank you!

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Lancement de la suite documentaire CoreTrustSeal

Nous sommes ravis d’annoncer le lancement de la suite documentaire CoreTrustSeal. Cette dernière a été développée à la suite d’une analyse approfondie effectuée par Borealis et par le groupe d’experts sur la préservation de l’Alliance de recherche numérique du Canada. Ce projet vise à appuyer les partenaires de Borealis et les dépôts de données canadiens et internationaux avec la certification CoreTrustSeal et les efforts de préservation des données de recherche de manière plus générale.

La certification CoreTrustSeal signifie que le dépôt numérique est fiable, durable et respecte les normes les plus rigoureuses en matière de gestion et de préservation des données. Au cours de l’année écoulée, les collections Borealis University of Victoria Dataverse et University of Manitoba Dataverse ont obtenu la certification CoreTrustSeal, attestant ainsi leur fiabilité en tant que dépôts de données.

La suite documentaire répond aux critères de la certification 2023-2025 (en anglais uniquement) et contient des modèles de politiques pour soutenir la gestion des collections institutionnelles dans Borealis. Elle comprend également un modèle de demande pour aider les institutions intéressées à demander la certification CoreTrustSeal :

• Modèle de politique pour les collections institutionnelles dans Borealis
• Lignes directrices sur le dépôt des collections institutionnelles dans Borealis
• Modèle de cadre de curation des collections institutionnelles de Borealis
• Modèle de politique de conservation et retrait de données d’une collection institutionnelle dans Borealis
• Modèle de documentation sur la préservation de Borealis
• Diagramme du cadre politique de Borealis
• Glossaire des termes à utiliser avec les modèles de cadres des politiques de Borealis sur les collections institutionnelles
• Modèle de demande de certification CTS de Borealis (version française à venir)

Ces modèles sont fondés sur les travaux antérieurs de Borealis et de l'Alliance, qui se sont appuyés sur les exigences pour le cycle de 2020-2022.

Vous pouvez trouver la suite documentaire ainsi que des informations supplémentaires sur ce projet sur SPOTDocs.

N'hésitez pas à communiquer avec l’équipe Borealis pour toute question ou tout commentaire. Merci!

[Julian Gautier]

This is great news! Thanks for sharing, Julie!

I have a question, but the link behind Borealis team leads me to https://groups.google.com/u/1, which is just the list of Google Groups I'm part of. Is there a Google Group forum that the Borealis team maintains that we should post questions in?

Thanks again!

Julian

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[Julian Gautier]

Ah! Okay I just saw your post on the Code4Lib forum, too, and that one's contact link points to mailto:in...@borealisdata.ca. Maybe Google Groups is doing something funny with email addresses?

Anywho, thanks again!

[Julie]

Oh great catch, Julian, and apologies for only seeing your question now!

I'm glad you were able to find an answer from another list, one of the benefits of cross-posting :) I'm also not sure what Google Groups did to that contact email but yes, folks can use the email address you found or the contact form on the Borealis site!

Best,

Julie

[Philipp Conzett]

Thanks so much for sharing this! Together with the Dataverse Software Guide for CTS Certification (hopefully we can work on a update), the Borealis and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada CoreTrustSeal Documentation Suite will be very helpful for repositories to achieve, sustain, and demonstrate trustworthiness aligned with the TRUST principles.

Best, Philipp

[Julian Gautier]

Agreed! I haven't had the time to help update that Dataverse Software Guide for CTS Certification like I'd planned when we were putting it together. Philipp, if you and others in the community would like to take the lead on updating it, please let me know and I'd be happy to update it with the adjusted text. That' assuming it'll keep living on the Drupal platform that Dataverse.org is on now. It's possible we'll move all of Dataverse.org to another platform before then.

I also chatted over email with Julie about the idea of replacing that Dataverse Software Guide for CTS Certification with the CoreTrustSeal Documentation Suite. I'm pasting what she wrote below for anyone who'd like to update the Dataverse Software Guide for CTS Certification :

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM Julie Shi wrote:
Hi Julian,

Our template is quite specific to the Borealis context so it may be more usable for the wider Dataverse community if you repurpose or revise the template to be more general.

For instance, information general to the Dataverse software is mixed in with details about the Borealis service model and context in the "Borealis: Supporting Information" and "Borealis: References" sections. It might make sense to keep only the software-related information.

Some of the "Institution" sections may also need to be revised e.g. for R0.6 Cooperation and outsourcing, the portion on "Relationship between Borealis and your institution: a template Borealis/Institution SLA may be provided" might be removed or generalized.

The "Institution: Related Templates" sections also point to policy templates in the Documentation Suite, which are also quite Borealis specific, so you may or may not want to remove these references as well.

I see as well that you have examples of responses from successful applicants on your current CTS page. We don't have that in our templates but it looks like there are 8 Dataverse repositories that have been certified under the 2023-2025 requirements that you could look at if you want to continue including those examples:

• DANS (Netherlands) (renewal)
• AUSSDA Austrian Social Science Data Archive (Austria) (renewal)
• University of Victoria Libraries (Canada) (new)
• ArcaDados (Brazil) (new)
• Data@UNIMI (Italy) (new)
• Aleia (Brazil) (new)
• RODBUK (Poland) (renewal)
• KU Leuven RDR (Belgium) (new)

We pulled responses from the PDFs for the first 5 earlier in the project and I'm happy to share those with you if you do want to include those as well.

Hope this helps and happy to discuss this more!

Best,
Julie

[Florio Orocio Arguillas]

Hello friends,

 

We have nine (9) Featured Dataverses, and we have to scroll horizontally to see all of them. 

 

Is there a way to split them into a 3x3 panel so we can see them all at once without having to scroll through the list?

 

Let me know.

 

Thanks.

 

Florio

 

[Philip Durbin]

Yes, https://dataverse.org/cts-guide would probably benefit from an update. Since it's a guide, I'd be happy for it to be folded into https://guides.dataverse.org some day. That way we could all collaborate on it just like we do for other guides (User Guide, Admin Guide, etc.).

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[Philip Durbin]

Hi Florio,

That's good feedback.

Perhaps you could hack together a footer* with custom Javascript and CSS to make the 3x3 panel you want but I've never seen this in the wild.

As you may be aware, we are rewriting the entire Dataverse UI from JSF to React. In React we have "featured items" instead of "featured dataverses". You can see how they look at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/pull/575 and https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/pull/629 and https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/pull/744 and try creating some at https://beta.dataverse.org/spa

As before, the items are in a carousel that scrolls horizontally. If you'd like the option of a grid please feel free to at least make a feature request at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/issues

I hope this helps,

Phil

* https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.6/installation/config.html#custom-footer

p.s. I started a new thread because somehow your message got added to the end of an unrelated thread.

[Julian Gautier]

I think when I was helping with this guide, we decided not to include it in the https://guides.dataverse.org, mostly because we didn't want to have to wait for Dataverse software releases in order to publish changes to it. I'm not saying that was the right move or not, just something to consider for anyone who takes up updating the guide.

[Philipp Conzett]

I think it's a good idea to update the Dataverse CTS guide. Maybe that could be part of the work of the Documentation WG? I'd be happy to contribute, though right now, I need to prioritize the re-certification of our repository.

Best,

Philipp

[Dieuwertje Bloemen]

The CoreTrustSeal requirements are currently being renewed, so if anyone plans to update them, it might be worth it to just wait until the next version of requirements is published. But the guide (and submissions by others) was definitely helpful when submitting your application, so definitely worth the effort to keep it up-to-date, I think.

[Philip Durbin]

Thanks for creating https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/issues/765 about this!

[Paul Boon]

Hi Florio, 

You might be able to get the desired effect with some custom CSS, that you can configure Dataverse to use. You have to change the style of the elements inside the 'featuredDataversesList'. 

With the  developer/inspect tools om my browser I could change the width of some inner element, making it small so it would allow for the items to sort of wrap onto a next row. 

Like : <div class="owl-wrapper" style="width: 925px; left: 0px; display: block;">

Good luck, 

Paul

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