The
Open Preservation Foundation has today endorsed the
TRUST principles for digital repositories.
Following on from several months of consultation and discussion within the digital repository community, a set of guiding principles have been developed to facilitate best practice in trustworthy data management:
- Transparency
- Responsibility
- User focus
- Sustainability
- Technology
The principles were recently published in an article for Scientific Data, co-authored by Barbara Sierman, chair of the OPF’s board of directors.
Learn more.