CERTIFICATION
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- The
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- groundwork
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- has
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- been
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- laid
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- for
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- the
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- establishment
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- of
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- the
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- long-awaited
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- certification
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- process
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- for
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- digital
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- repositories.
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- Over
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- the
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- last
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- three
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- years,
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- the
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- RLG-NARA
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- task
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- force
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- has
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- worked
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- to
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- define
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- and
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- articulate
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- criteria
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- or
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- indicators
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- of
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- trustworthiness
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- and
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- reliability
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- for
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- digital
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- repositories.
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- The
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- Center
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- for
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- Research
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- Libraries
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- now
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- offers
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- a
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- service
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- to
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- its
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- members
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- who
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- want
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- to
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- use
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- the
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- certification
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- process.
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- The Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC):
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- Criteria
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- and
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- Checklist
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- provides
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- the
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- opportunity
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- for
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- repositories
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- to
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- establish
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- themselves
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- as
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- trustworthy
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- and
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- to
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- be
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- certified
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- by
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- an
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- independent
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- third
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- party.
METADATA
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- PREMIS
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- Data
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- Dictionary.
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- The
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- objectives
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- of
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- PREMIS
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- were
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- 1)
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- to
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- develop
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- a
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- core
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- preservation
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- metadata
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- set,
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- supported
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- by
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- a
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- data
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- dictionary,
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- with
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- broad
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- applicability
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- across
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- the
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- digital
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- preservation
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- community
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- and
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- 2)
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- to
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- identify
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- and
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- evaluate
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- alternative
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- strategies
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- for
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- encoding,
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- storing,
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- and
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- managing
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- preservation
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- metadata
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- in
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- digital
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- preservation
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- systems.
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- The
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- PREMIS
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- data
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- dictionary
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- and
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- XML
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- schema
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- are
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- maintained
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- by
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- the
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- PREMIS
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- maintenance
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- activity,
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- hosted
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- by
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- the
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- Library
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- of
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- Congress.
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- The
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- dictionary
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- may
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- be
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- accessed
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- at
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