REAL, repository of the Academy's Library - way towards certification
Holl András
<>
MTA Könyvtára / MTA CsFK
The talk describes the road to establish the trustworthiness of repositories, using the REAL -the repository of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - as an example.
Setting up a repository could be difficult - apparently it takes years for large universities to estabilish one. Quite a few of the repositories running already contain a very small number of documents, and the annual growth could be small too. Repositories should organize document collection, using various methods ranging from mandates to pipelines.
Trustworthiness - whether the repository is prepared to serve the documents stored on the long term - should be considered from the beginnings. The talk, following a working paper on the evaluation of repositories, discusses the different criteria of trusted repositories, and those of compatibility. Repositories might want to achieve compatibility with various international projects (repositories and harvesters), and with national bibliographic projects like the MTMT.