ICPSR CoreTrustSeal 2019 certification

Abstract

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) became a CoreTrustSeal core certified repository on August 28, 2019. The certification is based on the CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2017–2019. CoreTrustSeal is an international, community based, non-governmental, and non-profit organization promoting sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructures. CoreTrustSeal replaces the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) certification and World Data System (WDS) Regular Members certification. ICPSR was one of the first six data repositories to earn the Data Seal of Approval in 2011. ICPSR earned the World Data System certification in 2013. The Core Trustworthy Data Repository Requirements were developed by the DSA–WDS Partnership Working Group on Repository Audit and Certification, a Working Group (WG) of the Research Data Alliance. Core certification involves a minimally intensive process whereby data repositories supply evidence that they are sustainable and trustworthy. A repository first conducts an internal self-assessment, which is then reviewed by community peers.