Trustworthy Digital Long-Term Repositories: The nestor Approach in the Context of International Developments

摘要

This paper describes the general approach nestor - the German "Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources" has taken in designing a catalogue of criteria for trustworthy digital repositories for long-term preservation and how this approach relates to internationalisation and standardisation of criteria and developments of evaluation methods to facilitate the audit and certification process.