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This is the home of the Costing digitial preservation space.

Digital Preservation Costing

• LIFE 1, 2 and 3. Projects to explore digital preservation costing, and develop costing models.
  • http://www.life.ac.uk/
• Cost Model for Digital Preservation (CMDP): Project at the Royal Danish Library and the Danish National Archives to develop a new cost model. Currently covers Planning, Migrations and Ingest
  • http://www.costmodelfordigitalpreservation.dk
• Keeping Research Data Safe 1 and 2 (KRDS):Cost model and benefits analysis for preserving research data
  • http://www.beagrie.com/krds.php
• Presto Prime cost model for digital storage
  • http://prestoprime.it-innovation.soton.ac.uk/planning-tool/
• Cost Estimation Toolkit (CET): Data centre costing model and toolkit, from NASA Goddard
  • http://www.pv2007.dlr.de/Papers/Fontaine_CostModelObservations.pdf

Significant Digital Preservation Costing Papers
*Blue Ribbon Task Force (2008). "Sustaining the digital investment: Issues and challenges of economically sustainable digital preservation. Interim Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation And Access". December 2008.

• • http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Interim_Report.pdf

General Costing Information

• International Standard Cost Model Manual
  • http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/54/34227698.pdf

Miscellaneous Costing Information

• David Rosenthal blog post on modelling digital preservation costs
  • http://blog.dshr.org/2011/09/modeling-economics-of-long-term-storage.html