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Benefits of Digital Preservation - STFC

Added by Holly Zhen · last edited by Holly Zhen · on Sep 19, 2012 (view change)

Activity Outline

Consider the activity you would like to examine and build a business case for during this mashup. You could have a tight focus on the activity your mashup developer is looking at, or you could take a broader consideration for the activity of your team, unit or department. We'll be building a business case to convince the powers that be that your work deserves to be funded. So you could outline a completely new activity or project.

It is important to firstly identify the benefits.

< Enter a short paragraph here to outline the activity that you will consider during these business plan development activities >

Benefits Analysis and Alignment with Institutional Objectives

< Begin by brainstorming the different benefits relevant to your activity, then expand on these in the Detailed Benefit Description column. When these benefit descriptions are complete, enter which objectives from your institutional strategy the benefit aligns with >

Generic or high level benefit	Detailed benefit description	Aligns with Institutional Objective
See these example benefits for ideas to help you get started. Describe the benefit in one sentence or less	Describe the benefit in more detail and how it relates to the activity	Enter the institutional strategic objective(s) that the benefit aligns with
Access	Legal obligation to retain information for a certain period of time	Ensure that national and international research facilities meet the needs of the UK's research community and funders, and that these facilities deliver excellent science with maximum impactEnsure that national and international research facilities meet the needs of the UK's research community and funders, and that these facilities deliver excellent science with maximum impact
	To promote science and attract new audience	Develop the Science and Innovation Campuses as recognised international focal points for research collaboration, bringing universities and industry together
	Allowing research data to be used	Develop the Science and Innovation Campuses as recognised international focal points for research collaboration, bringing universities and industry together
	Making sure old formats are compatible with newer versions of the software
Expertise/knowledge	Maintaining institute's status/credibility as the forefront of international science	Working with our partners, develop and support an exciting and relevant programme of World Class Research to sustain the UK's global research ranking
	Ability to provide services	Maintain a balance between curiosity-driven and application-led research and ensure we deliver and capture a broad range of impact, including technological innovation, training and skills, from our programmes
Finance	Possible income from service provision in science and e-infrastructure
	Long term investment to research/find better way to preserve scientific data
Automation	Time and cost saving
Institutional or Departmental Policy/strategy