Trustworthy Policies for Distributed Repositories (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services) - Softcover

Moore, Reagan W.; Xu, Hao; Conway, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627058850 ISBN 13: 9781627058858

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

A trustworthy repository provides assurance in the form of management documents, event logs, and audit trails that digital objects are being managed correctly. The assurance includes plans for the sustainability of the repository, the accession of digital records, the management of technology evolution, and the mitigation of the risk of data loss. A detailed assessment is provided by the ISO-16363:2012 standard, "Space data and information transfer systems-Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories." This book examines whether the ISO specification for trustworthiness can be enforced by computer actionable policies. An implementation of the policies is provided and the policies are sorted into categories for procedures to manage externally generated documents, specify repository parameters, specify preservation metadata attributes, specify audit mechanisms for all preservation actions, specify control of preservation operations, and control preservation properties as technology evolves. An application of the resulting procedures is made to enforce trustworthiness within National Science Foundation data management plans.

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About the Author

Dr. Reagan W. Moore is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, chief scientist for Data Intensive Cyber Environments at the Renaissance Computing Institute, and director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center at University of North Carolina (UNC-CH). He coordinates research efforts in the development of data grids, digital libraries, and preservation environments. Developed software systems include the Storage Resource Broker data grid and the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System. Supported projects include the National Archives and Records Administration Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype and the science data grids for seismology, oceanography, climate, high-energy physics, astronomy, and bioinformatics. An ongoing research interest is the use of data-grid technology to automate the execution of management policies and validate the trustworthiness of repositories. Dr. Moore's previous roles include the following: director of the DICE group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center; and Manager of production services at SDSC. He previously worked as a computational plasma physicist, at General Atomics on equilibrium and stability of toroidal fusion devices. He has a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego (1978), and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1967).

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627058850
• ISBN 13: 9781627058858
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150