Replication Data for: "Trustworthy Digital Repository Certification: A Longitudinal Study"

This dataset is a database compiled from two sources. First, we acquired all Data Seal of Approval (DSA) and early Core Trust Seal (CTS) audit reports from a MySQL database archived and made publicly accessible in DANS EASY (doi:10.17026/dans-28z-njxq). Second, we acquired more recent publicly accessible CTS audit reports from the list of certified repositories on the CTS website (https://www.coretrustseal.org/why-certification/certified-repositories/). We migrated and extracted the audit reports and their metadata from both sources into a file-based SQLite database that we have made publicly available on Harvard Dataverse. Our database allows you to replicate the tables and figures presented in the article, "Trustworthy Digital Repository Certification: A Longitudinal Study" that is published in Springer's indexed LNCS series for iConference 2023 (Donaldson, D.R., Russell, S.V. (2023). Trustworthy Digital Repository Certification: A Longitudinal Study. In I. Sserwanga, et al. (Eds.), Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. iConference 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13972. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_42). Our database is the entire set of self-assessment audit documents from the DSA and CTS certification programs as of October 2020. All the documents in the database follow the same format of a numerical score and narrative description of a repository’s compliance with each of the 16 guidelines. Although both have 16 scored sections, the guidelines for the earlier DSA and more recent CTS certification programs differ in the thematic arrangement of subtopics per section. Our database includes the section-by-section text and numerical scores of each repository’s audit reports, along with information used to identify repositories.