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The PID Forum is a global information and discussion platform for persistent identifiers (PIDs), which brings together the various communities working with PIDs in the research world. It’s a virtual place for sharing best practices, announcing events, asking questions, and having discussions abou...

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Following a year-long public discussion and building on existing community consensus1, several stakeholders, representing various segments of the digital repository community, have collaboratively developed and endorsed a set of guiding principles to demonstrate digital repository trustworthiness...

This International Standard defines a recommended practice for assessing the trustworthiness of digital repositories. It is applicable to the entire range of digital repositories. This International Standard can be used as a basis for certification.

Colorado State University librarians conducted five focus groups with thirty-one faculty, research scientists, and research associates. The groups explored: (1) The nature of data sets that these researchers create or maintain; (2) How participants manage their data; (3) Needs for support that th...

The last decade has seen a marked increase in the creation, analysis and reuse of data by scholars across a wide range of disciples. In response to this trend, the management and curation of data has become increasingly important for libraries in the digital and data age. The increased focus and...

This document specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization. This document also includes requirements for the assessment and treatment of information security risks...

Part 2: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/A-2) ISO 19005-2:2011 specifies the use of the Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7, as formalized in ISO 32000-1, for preserving the static visual representation of page-based electronic documents over time. ISO 19005-2:2011 is not applicable to specific processe...

Looking for an unambiguous calendar-and-clock format that is internationally understood? It’s time for ISO 8601. This ISO standard helps remove doubts that can result from the various day–date conventions, cultures and time zones that impact a global operation. It gives a way of presenting dates...

The purpose of ISO 3166 is to define internationally recognized codes of letters and/or numbers that we can use when we refer to countries and their subdivisions. However, it does not define the names of countries – this information comes from United Nations sources (Terminology Bulletin Country...