<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And in addition to the ISO's there is the NISO good digital collections guide.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">See: <a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/digital-collection">http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/digital-collection</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Stellenbosch University Library</span><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><font color="#0000ee"><u><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-208X" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-208X</a></u></font><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2016 at 09:44, Ina Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Something we all learned, was that every country – with time – should have an <b>IR Auditing Body</b>, aligned with the <a href="http://www.iso16363.org/standards/iso-16919/" target="_blank">ISO 16919</a> 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:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Self-assessment using the <a href="http://www.datasealofapproval.org/en/assessment/" target="_blank">Data Seal of Approval</a>. Once you have conducted the self-assessment, the assessment can be submitted for review to the board of the Data Seal of Approval.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Self-assessment using <a href="http://www.iso16363.org/standards/iso-16363/" target="_blank">ISO 16363</a>. <a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/4/46/Self-assessment-template-iso16363.xls" target="_blank">Click here</a> to access the Excel-spread sheet.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">External assessment/audit by the SA IR Auditing Body.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">It is highly recommended that you have a <b>web page for your repository</b>, 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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">There are also many tools available to test whether the metadata in your IR is OAI-PMH Compliant, eg <a href="https://www.openaire.eu/" target="_blank">OpenAIRE</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Ina<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Ina Smith<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497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