[IRTalk] Is your institutional repository trusted?

[Hilton Gibson]

And in addition to the ISO's there is the NISO good digital collections
guide.
See: http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/digital-collection


*Hilton Gibson*
Stellenbosch University Library
*http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-208X
<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-208X>*


On 4 April 2016 at 09:44, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues
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> The Wider Gauteng IR Forum presented a highly successful workshop last
> Thursday. Thank you to Leti and team for a great job done! This kind of
> intervention is crucial for taking the dialogue about IRs and OA forward in
> our country.
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> Something we all learned, was that every country – with time – should have
> an *IR Auditing Body*, aligned with the ISO 16919
> <http://www.iso16363.org/standards/iso-16919/> standard. This body will
> then conduct external audits of repositories in that country, evaluate and
> certify them. The following approach can be followed, if you are interested
> in confirming that your IR at your institution is trusted:
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> 1.    Self-assessment using the Data Seal of Approval
> <http://www.datasealofapproval.org/en/assessment/>. Once you have
> conducted the self-assessment, the assessment can be submitted for review
> to the board of the Data Seal of Approval.
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> 2.    Self-assessment using ISO 16363
> <http://www.iso16363.org/standards/iso-16363/>. Click here
> <http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/4/46/Self-assessment-template-iso16363.xls>
> to access the Excel-spread sheet.
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> 3.    External assessment/audit by the SA IR Auditing Body.
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> It is highly recommended that you have a *web page for your repository*,
> where you explicitly indicate who fulfils certain roles, who are the
> members of the IR Advisory Board, what are the policies on various issues,
> statistics, budget, where is the IR indexed/harvested, where
> indexed/harvested, and more. This web page important to demonstrate that
> your IR can be fully trusted, and is properly managed. Therefore, follow a
> highly transparent process. The information collected for the ISO 16363 can
> be re-packaged for a web page.
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> There are also many tools available to test whether the metadata in your
> IR is OAI-PMH Compliant, eg OpenAIRE <https://www.openaire.eu/>.
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> Kind regards
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> Ina
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> *Ina Smith*
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> SciELO Planning Manager
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> Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
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> LIASA Exco Convener ICT Development (2014-2016)
> LIASA HELIG Chair (2014-2016)
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