Information about course in New Delhi, India Jan 11-13 2017 available

The Indian Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation (C-DAC, http://www.cdac.in/) has organised a high level course on Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories in association with PTAB.
The full details and registration page is available at http://www.ndpp.in/national-international-events/high-level-course-on-iso16363. The registration fee is Rs. 20,000.

International and Interdisciplinary workshop on Active Data Management Plans 28-30 June 2016

This workshop is organised in conjunction with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Active Data Management Plans Interest Group.

The registration page is available at https://indico.cern.ch/event/520120/. Participation is open (subject to registration and space) to all members of that group, as well as all other interested parties.

There is no registration fee but participants are expected to cover their own travel and subsistence costs.

Success metrics

  • Change the way that funders expect DMPs to be produced
  • DMPs – will be able to be created, evaluated, monitored – to enable data to be exploited immediately and over the long term
  • Support EU Data Principles
    1. Discoverable – readily found to exist by online search
    2. Accessible– when discovered they can be interrogated
    3. Intelligible– they can be understood
    4. Assessable– the reliability of their source can be evaluated
    5. Useable– they can be re-used
      1. Interoperable (from FAIR)

Aims of workshop

  • Discuss ideas of requirements
    • Guided by success metrics
  • Understand how DMPs can help identify synergies across projects and disciplines
  • Separate group discussions on various aspects of DMPs
  • Agree overall concepts
  • Detailed next steps
    • Individual responsibilities
    • Schedule
    • Co-ordination

ANAB opens its ISO 16363 accreditation program

ANAB has launched its new accreditation program for ISO 16363 – Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories.

The standard is seen as a solution to concerns of data preservation for many industries. Any industry that has preservation requirements, whether mandatory or voluntary, will benefit from accredited certification to ISO 16363 for digital repositories.
ANAB will use ISO 16919 –Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of candidate trustworthy digital repositories, a companion standard based on ISO/IEC 17021-1, for accreditation.

See http://anab.org/media/59172/hu327.pdf