Apologies for any cross-posting
I am pleased to announce the release of a new Factsheet from
the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) project on the costs and benefits of
digital preservation. The Factsheet is available for download as a PDF from
http://www.beagrie.com/KRDS_Factsheet_0910.pdf
If you are attending the iPRES 2010 conference in
Vienna next week there will be print copies available on the JISC stand.
The A4 four-page factsheet is intended to be suitable for
senior managers and others interested in a concise summary of our key
findings. It will be relevant to all repositories and institutions holding
digital material but of particular interest to anyone responsible for or
involved in the long-term management of research data.
The factsheet covers the following major areas:
Cost
issues in digital preservation (what costs most, impact of fixed costs,
declining costs over time);
Benefits
from digital preservation (benefits taxonomy, direct benefits, indirect
benefits, near-term benefits, long-term benefits);
Institutional
issues (repository models and structures, key cost variables, data collection
levels).
We hope the Factsheet will be of value to the digital
preservation and research data communities and plan to release a further KRDS
publication later this year (a KRDS User Guide).
The Keeping Research Data Safe studies have been funded by
JISC and conducted by a partnership of the following institutions: Charles
Beagrie Ltd, OCLC Research, the UK Data Archive, the Archaeology Data Service,
the University of London Computer Centre, and the universities of Cambridge,
King’s College London, Oxford and Southampton.
Neil Beagrie
Charles Beagrie Ltd
Digital Access and Preservation
Management and Research Consultancy
Website: www.beagrie.com
Blog: www.blog.beagrie.com