Synchronisation Force 2nd Workshop Session 4: Trustworthy and FAIR-enabling repositories

In this session we will discuss the current mechanisms and cooperation opportunities for Trustworthy and FAIR-enabling repositories. We will look into the wider range of transparency and trust, and the incremental and sustainable support needed.

Chair: Joy Davidson and Laurence Horton, DCC
Rapporteur: Maaike Verburg, DANS

This session aims to pick up on progress against the three recommendations identified from the 2022 Synchronisation Force session which were to:

• Measure the percentage of repositories in EOSC that will have a certification such as CoreTrustSeal or expose trustworthiness using other mechanisms
• Provide incremental, continuous and sustainable guidance and assistance to repositories, and certification processes
• Contribute to cooperation across the current initiatives to build and sustain a network of trustworthy digital repositories

Questions that participants in this session will explore:

• 1. What is your project or initiative doing to help define trustworthiness?
• 2. What is your project or initiative doing to increase the number and visibility of trustworthy, FAIR-enabling and/or certified repositories?
• 3. In your project, initiative, or community, do you work with repositories that consider themselves to be trustworthy and/or have a certification such as CoreTrustSeal?
• 4. For those repositories that are not certified, is any support or guidance provided to help them to expose their trustworthiness using other mechanisms?
• 5. Are you planning to sustain your activities and/or efforts? If so, how? How can we best work together to progress a network of trustworthy digital repositories?

Expected outcomes:

This session is to provide an update on some of the recent efforts to improve the availability and visibility of trustworthy and FAIR-enabling repositories and to consider whether any of these can be leveraged to assist the ongoing monitoring the repository landscape by the EOSC Association.

Conversation starters for this session include:

• Nina Weisweiler, Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration on the COREF update of the re3data metadata schema
• Francoise Genova, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory on RDA France support for CoreTrustSeal certification of data repositories
• Ilaria Nardello, EOSC Association on EA Member survey outcomes related to certified repositories