DSA supporting information

Paul TrilsbeekThe Language Archive

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

DSA Supporting information

Self-assessment procedure

DSA online assessment tool

Peer-review procedure

DSA awarded, what’s next?

Self-assessment procedure

Self-assessment documents can be downloaded from DSA web site

Evidence for each guideline should ideally be provided by means of online documentation that is openly accessible

Keep in mind that the final version of the peer-reviewed self-assessment will be made publicly available on the DSA site

Online assessment tool

Go to www.datasealofapproval.org

Click on “Apply for DSA” tab

Fill out the form with contact details

Once this is done, the DSA tool administrator will contact the board to look for a reviewer and enable the repository to enter the self-assessment into the online tool

The tool contains all guidelines with complementary questions, minimum compliance requirements and outsourcing options

Online assessment tool

The tool will go through the guidelines one by one, once the evidence is entered and stored by clicking “save”, one can go to a next guideline.

Guidelines can also be accessed in arbitrary order by clicking on the guideline numbers at the top

The assessment can be closed and picked up again at any time, as long as “save” is clicked for storing the entered evidence for the guidelines

Online assessment tool

demo

Peer-review procedureOne peer-reviewer is assigned to the

assessment by the DSA board, ideally from a similar domain

The reviewer gets notified by the online tool once the repository has completed and submitted the assessment

The review is also done in the online tool, comments are entered in the tool and will be visible to the repository once the reviewer has completed and submitted the review

Peer-review procedureThe repository then has the opportunity to

address the comments if needed by modifying the evidence

Once done, the repository submits the assessment again and the reviewer reviews the modified evidence

If the reviewer is satisfied she/he awards the DSA

DSA awarded, what’s next?

Once the DSA is awarded, the repository has the right to display the DSA logo (which links to the assessment document) on the repository site

In order to achieve this, A HTML snippet will be provided that can be pasted into the repository's front page

DSA awarded, what’s next?

The DSA is valid for at most 2 years, until the next version comes into effect

The repository can re-apply for the next DSA version by modifying the evidence for changed guideline compliance requirements, if needed

Further assessments according to ISO 16363 (former RAC/TRAC) or DIN 31644 (originating from NESTOR) can be undertaken, see:

http://www.trusteddigitalrepository.eu/