Successful digital preservation depends heavily on the longevity of trustworthy archives. Certification of data repositories and digital archives is a very important step to ensure the long term quality and sustainability of archives and
to have a documentable assessment of the solidity and robustness of their working procedures and preservation approaches.
Several initiatives have evolved in the recent years to establish good certification internationally. In the upcoming APARSEN webinar the most noteworthy approaches are explained and compared. Among them are
the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) by Dutch Data Archive DANS, the ISO 16363 as tested by the Royal Library KB, and the DIN standard 31644 applied by the National Library of Germany DNB. The APARSEN-project is designing a way forward in which these different
certification approaches can be combined and applied to their mutual strength.
Marcel Ras
Programmamanager
Nationale Coalitie Digitale Duurzaamheid (NCDD)
Postbus 90407 2509 LK Den Haag E marce...@kb.nl T +31 70 31 40 180 +31 614 77 76 71