1. Center for Research Libraries Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58

2. Center for Research Libraries Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funding May 2005 through October 2006 Bernard F. Reilly, CRL, Principal Investigator Robin Dale, RLG, Project Director

3. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Questions: 1. What are the metrics, methodology, processes needed for evaluation of digital repositories? 2. How is this activity to be supported on an ongoing basis?

4. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Content and data maintained by: 1.Producers 2.Communities of interest 3.Third parties

5. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Threats: 1.Loss or corruption of data/content 2.Loss or interruption of access to data/content

6. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Factors: Content characteristics Ingestion Technical architecture Organization Governance Cost Structure Rights Designated Communities

7. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Repositories: 1.Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) 2.Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) 3.Portico

8. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Process: Engagement Pre-audit analysis Two-day on-site audit Follow-up Analysis Reporting

9. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Also: 1.LOCKSS 2.NewsBank

10. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Challenges: Variety of repository functions and user needs Range of content valuation

11. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories Auditing vs. Analysis Certification vs. Structured Disclosure

12. Auditing and Certification of Digital Repositories http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58