This interim report by the US-UK based Blue Ribbon Task Force describes the set of economic-related factors that play a role in digital preservation. It defines the activities that must be economically sustainable, providing extensive information about economic models and outlines the current landscape. All this is based on literature review and interviews with prominent stakeholders. The report is intended …
The Digital Black Hole
This article presents an analysis of costs for digitizing and long-term storage at the Riksarkivet (National Archives, RA) in Stockholm, Sweden. This example includes forecasts of cost development for the next few years which may help other institutions in analysing their own costs and budgeting for long-term storage. This often quoted article, published in the framework of the TAPE project, …
Kosten-batenanalyse en bedrijfsmodellen voor een centraal Vlaams audiovisueel archief
Contents: 1 Organisatie van het archief 2 Kosten 3 Inkomsten Besluit Dit rapport is opgesteld in het kader van het project BOM-Vlaanderen om de kosten en mogelijke directe baten van een Gemeenschappelijk Vlaams audiovisueel archief inzichtelijk te maken. Bij wijze van inleiding presenteert hoofdstuk 1 kort de functies waar een AV-archief voor kan kiezen en nog korter de mogelijke organisatievormen …
Keeping Research Data Safe 2
The first Keeping Research Data Safe study (Beagrie, Chrusczcz and Lavoie, JISC 2008) made a major contribution to understanding of long-term preservation costs for research data by developing a cost model and indentifying cost variables for preserving research data in UK universities. This aim of this follow-on project (2009/2010) was to provide a larger body of material and evidence against which existing …
DataSpace: A Funding and Operational Model for Long-Term Preservation and Sharing of Research Data
At the May 5 meeting of the US National Research Board, the National Science Foundation announced that, as of October 2010, it will require that all grant proposals include a data management plan. This announcement represents the next step in what has been a growing trend on the part of government agencies to require researchers to plan for the preservation …
The Cost of Digitising Europe’s Cultural Heritage
Contents: Executive Summary Overview of Figures by Sector 1. Purpose of this Study 2. Defining Digitisation 3. Cost-Models for Digitisation 4. Understanding Formats 5. A Structured Approach to Normalising Costs 6. The Scale of European Cultural Heritage 7. The Cost of Digitising Libraries 8. The Cost of Digitising Museums 9. The Cost of Digitising Archives 10. The Cost of Digitising …