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The TRUST Principles Overview
The TRUST Principles are a high-level framework that offers guidance to improve the trustworthiness of digital repositories. Trustworthy Digital Repositories have taken on the role to “actively preserve data in response to changes in both technology and stakeholder requirements ”. These processes play an essential role in maintaining the value of digital data. Trustworthy Digital Repositories are held in a position of trust by their users as they accept data stewardship responsibilities.

TRUST as acronym
TRUST is the acronym of Transparency, Responsibility, User focus, Sustainability, and Technology. An extensive  definition was first published in a May 2020 paper in Nature Research’s Scientific Data. The purpose of the development of TRUST is to provide a common framework to facilitate discussion and implementation of best practices in digital preservation by stakeholders including, but not limited to,  repository managers, funders, policymakers, publishers, data preservationists, and researchers. The TRUST evolves with the needs of these stakeholders.

Relationship to FAIR and CARE
The TRUST principles can be seen as a counterpart to the FAIR principles and the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. Implementing the FAIR principles will make the data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable. But this is only so at a particular moment in time. Trustworthy Digital Repositories make data FAIR long-term.

The TRUST Principles do not replace trustworthy repository certification methods, such as the CoreTrustSeal, the Nestor Seal or ISO 16363 certification, which can be used to assess aspects of trustworthiness. Instead, the TRUST Principles are a basic high-level framework above these certification methods and can be regarded as a first stepping stone towards formal certification and accreditation processes. The TRUST Principles also promote awareness of the importance of data stewardship and foster understanding of fundamental data curation issues.

History
The concept of the TRUST Principles was initiated within discussions among Research Data Alliance(RDA) members and formally launched as a community discussion during the RDA 13th Plenary session, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on April 4, 2019. The session's title was "RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories: Build TRUST to be FAIR - Emerging Needs of Certification in Life Sciences, Geosciences, and Humanities." Since those early discussions, several RDA community members, representing diverse disciplines, collaboratively explored these issues. This community collaboration led to the publication of "The TRUST Principles for digital repositories" in Scientific Data, a Nature Journal, in May 2020.

Endorsements
The TRUST Principles have already been endorsed by various organizations, networks, professional societies, funders committed to the stewardship of digital resources and, in particular, digital research data. Some of the organizations that already have endorsed the TRUST Principles have offered statements to support their endorsements. As of May 24, 2021, there are 40 organizations endorsed the TRUST Principles [2].

Citation Statistics

 * Google Scholar statistics of TRUST citation (40 as of May 24, 2021)
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