Towards a Taxonomy of Trustworthy Digital Repository Impacts. Issue 1 (13th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Donaldson, Devan Ray; Russell, Samuel Vodicka
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 58:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 430
• Page End: 434
• Publication Date: 2021-10-13
• Subjects: Minimum Viable Prototype -- Societal Impact -- Taxonomy -- Trustworthy Digital Repositories; Information science -- Congresses; Information technology -- Congresses; Information science; Information technology; Conference papers and proceedings; 020
• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.473
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-9231

Abstract

Abstract: Measuring the societal impact of digital repositories is a wicked problem. To capture information about the impacts of digital repositories that become certified as Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs), a taxonomy describing activities cited as evidence of compliance with TDR standards is needed to relate those activities to socially beneficial outcomes. This paper presents a Minimum Viable Prototype (MVP) for a TDR Impacts taxonomy to enable the expression of their activities in a structured way. Our MVP provides a proof‐of‐concept that by formalizing concepts about TDRs in a taxonomy, we can investigate ways to measure whether the impacts associated with becoming and remaining a certified TDR are also impacts that generate societal value. Implications of the work described include potential strategies to identify, extract, and/or author machine‐readable descriptions of measurable facets of TDR activities and the resulting impacts on communities.