WBConfCall 2019.04.18-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

Progress Report

• Send to Paul by Monday

Help Desk

• All issues have been addressed. Thank you!!!

NIH Trustworthy Data Repositories workshop

• Chris attended last week (April 8th and 9th)
• Focus on Core Trust Seal certification (https://www.coretrustseal.org/)
• As FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) applies to data, TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) applies to data repositories
• Core Trust Seal Basic Guidance
• Core Trust Seal Extended Guidance
• Slides reviewing the requirements
• 16 (+1) requirements
  • Context (R0)
  • Organizational Infrastructure
    • (R1) Mission/Scope
    • (R2) Licenses
    • (R3) Continuity of access
    • (R4) Confidentiality/Ethics
    • (R5) Organizational infrastructure
      • "The repository has adequate funding and sufficient numbers of qualified staff managed through a clear system of governance to effectively carry out the mission."
    • (R6) Expert guidance
  • Digital Object Management
    • (R7) Data integrity and authenticity
      • Adequate tracking of data and metadata provenance and changes (deposited data vs. disseminated data)
    • (R8) Appraisal
      • "The repository accepts data and metadata based on defined criteria to ensure relevance and understandability for data users."
    • (R9) Documented storage procedures
    • (R10) Preservation plan
    • (R11) Data quality
    • (R12) Workflows
    • (R13) Data discovery and identification
    • (R14) Data reuse
    • (R15) Technical infrastructure
      • "The repository functions on well-supported operating systems and other core infrastructural software and is using hardware and software technologies appropriate to the services it provides to its Designated Community."
    • (R16) Security
• Application process
  • Self assessment reviewed by two volunteer reviewers from Core Trust Seal reviewer pool
  • Self assessment (and subsequent review) applies a level-of-compliance score from 0-4 for each requirement
    • 0 : Not applicable
    • 1 : The repository has not considered this yet
    • 2 : The repository has a theoretical concept
    • 3 : The repository is in the implementation phase
    • 4 : The guideline has been fully implemented in the repository
  • Scores of 3 or 4 for each requirement in order to be accepted
• Examples of accepted certification applications
  • wwPDB
  • ImmPort
  • Mendeley Data
• UniProt just applied
  • Said it took 2-3 months calendar time (not full time effort; essentially only one person); already had most of the requested documentation
• Costs
  • 1,000 Euros application fee; lasts three years
  • Covers 5 rounds of review (most accepted after 2 or 3 rounds of review)
• Benefits?
  • Potential discounts from Amazon or Google for having certification
    • STRIDES (Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability) Initiative
    • Will help researchers implement cloud services
    • Already have Alliance as a test case
  • Strength on future grant applications and/or renewals
  • Collaborators may be more inclined to share data and/or resources
  • Improved documentation of plans and workflows
  • Improved transparency for our users
• May want for Alliance more than for WormBase at this point
• NOT yet a requirement being imposed by funding agencies like the NIH/NHGRI
  • NIH and NIH program officers want input from repositories; is this a good idea?

Minutes

Elixir

• Does Elixir require this (or other) certification?
• Currently restricted to Europe
• Could be a criteria for deciding if a repository is "core" or not

Alliance Grant application

• Paul S will communicate with grant reviewers and send around feedback to group

Trustworthy Data Repositories workshop follow up

• Chris will work out an organizational scheme to asses how much work is already done and how much more work would be required
• Once we assess how much work is required, we will make a determination about committing to applying for certification
• Consensus appears to be that this would be worth doing