EOSC EDEN’s M1.2 Report has been published and can now be read in full online, marking a first public release of work on the definition of Metrics for Information Object Re-Use Fitness.
This second milestone of task T1.2 represents the initial version of an ongoing study on the contextual, technical and metadata quality dimensions relevant to the long-term preservation of digital objects. The indicators and metrics produced by this task are intended to serve as a reference for the EDEN project across its various work packages.
Specifically, they are expected to be used for the following purposes:
- To constitute a reference for the quality dimensions in the tool development endeavours within WP2, particularly the Data Quality Service;
- To structure WP3’s interactions with digital preservation professionals and researchers surveyed or interviewed during the project;
- As a foundation for task T1.3, currently being launched under WP1; one key question for that task will be how the quality dimensions identified by these indicators evolve over the long term.
- Across various Work Packages for stakeholder validation and maximized uptake.
This work feeds into the EOSC EDEN Re-Use Fitness Framework, whose overarching goal is to to identify data suitable for long-term preservation by extending FAIR and technical-quality practices with re-use-fitness metrics, a re-appraisal process, and cross-disciplinary quality requirements.
The Re-Use Fitness Model is structured around 3 data quality pillars - content data quality, technical data quality and metadata quality. For each pillar, quality indicators have been adapted from ISO 25012, and refined through systematic comparison with institutional policies and process descriptions, professional expertise, and selected standards.
Metrics are domain-specific implementable measurements of the indicators, adapted to the discipline contents and file formats. While this milestone serves as the initial description and delivers a first set of metrics collected from real life examples, these will be refined further throughout the project.
This report was prepared by Milestone leaders TIB, alongside project partners CSC, PMT, SIB, KU Leuven, UiT, ARKIVUM, and KNAW-DANS.
Read and download the report in full via Zenodo here: https://zenodo.org/records/21135795