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Digital Preservation and Data Curation Costing and Cost Modelling

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Digital Preservation Costing Initiatives

• 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/
• Cost Estimation Toolkit (CET): Data centre costing model and toolkit, from NASA Goddard
  • http://www.pv2007.dlr.de/Papers/Fontaine_CostModelObservations.pdf
• Cost Model for Small Scale Automated Digital Preservation Archives (Strodl and Rauber)
  • http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~strodl/paper/strodl_ipres2011_costmodel.pdf
• APARSEN Project activity focused on digital preservation costing
  • http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/knowledge-base/digital-preservation-business-models/costbenefit-data-collection-and-modelling
• EPRSC and JISC study on Cost analysis of cloud computing for research
  • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/research_infrastructure/costcloudresearch.pdf
• Cost forecasting model for new digitization projects (Excel and web tool under development) (Karim Boughida, Martha Whittaker, Linda Colet, Dan Chudnov)
  • http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cni_cost_boughida.pdf
• DP4lib is developing a business and cost model for a digital preservation service
  • http://dp4lib.langzeitarchivierung.de/downloads/DP4lib-One-Pager-08-eng.pdf
• DANS Costs of Digital Archiving Volume 2 Project, focusing on preservation and dissemination of research datasets
  • http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/content/categorieen/projecten/costs-digital-archiving-vol-2http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/content/categorieen/projecten/costs-digital-archiving-vol-2
• Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
  • http://brtf.sdsc.edu/
• Economic Sustainability Reference Model
  • http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/economic-sustainability-ref-model-page/

Events and Event Reports

• Inge Angevaare blog post on Screening The Future conference session on digital preservation costing
  • http://www.ncdd.nl/blog/?p=1849
• Workshop: The Costs and Benefits of Keeping Knowledge: economic models for digital preservation, includes links to an event report and slides.
  • http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=512
• Expert Meeting: Price Tags of Digital Preservation Policy Choices
  • http://www.ncdd.nl/en/documents/20100916PriceTagsConferenceReportfinal.pdf

Significant Digital Preservation Costing Papers

• "Comparison of methods and costs of digital preservation. Research and Innovation Report", Hendley, T. (1998). British Library.
  • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/tavistock/hendley/hendley.html

• "Cost elements for digital preservation". Granger S., Russell, K., Weinberger, E. (2000). CEDARS Project.
  • http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20050409230000/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/colman/costElementsOfDP.doc

• "Life cycle collection management". Shenton, H. (2003). LIBER Quarterly, Issue 13.

• "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", Blue Ribbon Task Force, December 2008.
  • http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Interim_Report.pdf

• "The Significance of Storage in the “Cost of Risk” of Digital Preservation", Richard Wright, Ant Miller, IJDC, Issue 3, Volume 4, 2009.
  • http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/138

• "Total Cost of Preservation: Cost Modeling for Sustainable Services", Stephen Abrams, Patricia Cruse, John Kunze, 2012
  • https://wiki.ucop.edu/download/attachments/163610649/TCP-total-cost-of-preservation.pdf?version=4&modificationDate=1334613033000
• "Economic Impact Evaluation of the Economic and Social Data Service", Charles Beagrie Ltd, 2012
  • http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/ESDS_Economic_Impact_Evaluation_tcm8-22229.pdf

For more comprehensive bibliographies see:

• A Digital Asset Sustainability and Preservation Cost Bibliography (2012)
• LIFE Research Review (2005)

General Costing Information

• International Standard Cost Model Manual from the Standard Cost Model (SCM) Network** http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/54/34227698.pdf
• Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) (UK)
  • http://www.hefce.ac.uk/trac

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
• Matthew Addis of PrestoCentre on cost vs risk with regard to long term storge
  • http://www.prestocentre.org/blog/wash-day-your-data
• Paul Wheatley blog post on challenges in costing DP: Digital Preservation Cost Modelling: Where did it all go wrong?
  • http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-06-29-digital-preservation-cost-modelling-where-did-it-all-go-wrong