Data Seal of Approval - 2.0

Data Seal of Approval - Quality guidelines for digital research data in the Netherlands. Laurents Sesink, Rene van Horik, Henk Harmsen (eds). The Hague, Data Archiving and Networked Services - 2nd ed. DANS, 2010. ISBN 978 9490 531 027

When DANS was established, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) assigned it the task of developing a Seal of Approval for data, to ensure that archived data will still be found, recognized and used in the future. With regard to durable storage and maintaining accessibility, where data are stored is a lot less important than how they are stored.

The quality guidelines formultaed in this document are of interest to researchers and institutions that establish digital research files, to organizations that archive reseach files, and to users of research data.

This publication can be ordered free of charge at DANS or can be downloaded as PDF from the Data Seal of Approval website.