# Trustworthy Digital Repository **Domain:** Digital Preservation / Audit / Institutional Reliability **Doc Type:** Canonical Standards Node **Maturity:** Current Standard / Prospective Application ## Definition A **trustworthy digital repository** is an archive whose governance, preservation planning, information management, security and technical infrastructure can be audited for reliable long-term custody. ## Continuity Relevance Trustworthiness requires more than redundant storage. It includes organizational viability, documented responsibility, risk management, preservation processes, access controls, audit evidence and the ability to maintain understandable information for a designated community. For continuity infrastructure, repository certification can support cold and warm custody but cannot certify consciousness, numerical identity or lawful activation. A repository may preserve a complete package while lacking compute, authority or a service obligation to execute it. ## Current Standard ISO 16363:2025 provides criteria for audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories. The standard applies to repositories; its use as a layer in computational-person continuity is prospective. ## Sources / Provenance - [ISO 16363:2025](https://www.iso.org/standard/87472.html). ## See Also [[wiki/Open Archival Information System|Open Archival Information System]], [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]], [[wiki/Continuity Service Tiers|Continuity Service Tiers]]