Apologies for any cross-posting
JISC is pleased to announce that the final
report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) is now available from the
JISC website. This KRDS2 study report presents the results of a survey of
available cost information, validation and further development of the KRDS
activity cost model, and a new taxonomy to help assess benefits alongside costs.
The KRDS2 study was conducted by Charles Beagrie Ltd. and associates.
KRDS2 has delivered the following:
·
A survey of cost information for digital
preservation, collating and making available 13 survey responses for different
cost datasets;
·
The KRDS activity model has been reviewed and
its presentation and usability enhanced;
·
Cost information for four organisations (the
Archaeology Data Service; National Digital Archive of Datasets; UK Data
Archive; and University of Oxford) has been analysed in depth and presented in
case studies;
·
A benefits framework has been produced and
illustrated with two benefit case studies from the National Crystallography
Service at Southampton University and the UK Data Archive at the University of
Essex.
One of the key findings on the long-term costs of digital
preservation for research data was that the cost of archiving activities
(archival storage and preservation planning and actions) is consistently a very
small proportion of the overall costs and significantly lower than the costs of
acquisition/ingest or access activities for all the case studies in KRDS2. As
an example the respective activity staff costs for the Archaeology Data Service
are Access (c.31%), Outreach/Acquisition/Ingest (c.55%), Archiving (c.15%).This
confirms and supports a preliminary finding in KRDS1.
Full URL:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.aspx#downloads
A range of supplementary materials in support of this report
have also been made available on the KRDS
project website. This includes the ULCC Excel Cost Spreadsheet for the NDAD
service together with a Guide to Interpreting and Using the NDAD Cost
Spreadsheet. The NDAD Cost Spreadsheet has previously been used as an exercise
in digital preservation training events and may be particularly useful in
training covering digital preservation costs. The accompanying Guide provides
guidance to those wishing to understand and experiment with the spreadsheet.
Neil Grindley
Programme Manager
Digital Preservation & Records Management
1st Floor Brettenham House (South)
5 Lancaster Place
London
WC2E 7EN
tel: 0203 006 6059
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