World Data System Town Hall: Building Trustworthy Digital Repositories and Meeting User Needs Through Outreach, Advocacy, and Research

WDS invited all members, data repositories, publishers, scientists, and scholars looking for trustworthy digital repositories (TDRs) to join us as we shared our recent research including: Value narratives for data repositories including results from a recent Delphi study How the TRUST Principles are incorporated into repositories Things to think about as we begin planning for International Polar Year 2032 The discussion continued with how the WDS meets the needs of its members and the data community through training, outreach, and advocacy on behalf of digital data repositories worldwide including: WDS trainings in 2024 and what’s needed in 2025 WDS Action Plan 2025-2027 General feedback on what needs the WDS can meet for the data community The overarching goal of the WDS Town Hall was to give the community a voice into WDS’s actions, activities and engagements, helping the organization to meet user needs. The video update on International Polar Year 2032-2033 provided by Mark Parsons can be viewed here.