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Lifecycle costing (01-07-09)
- 1. Lifecycle Costing The LIFE Project Richard Davies Digital Approvals Manager, The British Library JISC Digital Content Conference 1 July 2009
- 3. LIFE Projects overview L ifecycle I nformation F or E -literature LIFE 1 year Completed in April 2006 LIFE2 1½ years Completed August 2008 LIFE3 1 year Begins August 2009
- 4. The LIFE Model (v2) Reference Linking Disposal Check-in Inspection Obtaining Backup Holdings Update Ordering & Invoicing .... User Support Refreshment Deposit IPR & Licensing .... Access Control Storage Provision Metadata Submission Agreement .... Access Provision Repository Admin Quality Assurance Selection .... Lifecycle Elements Access Re-ingest Preservation Action Preservation Planning Preservation Watch Content Preservation Bit-stream Preservation Ingest Acquisition Creation or Purchase Lifecycle Stage
- 5. The LIFE Model (v2) Lifecycle Sub-element Lifecycle Element Lifecycle Stage Lifecycle
- 13. Some observations Invest up front to save more money later in the lifecycle. Justification to invest is critical. Cost remains one of the most important factors in timing and selecting an appropriate preservation strategy. Targeting development resource on the bottle necks of preservation activity will return the greatest savings for the end user and the best return on investment for the funder. Digital preservation costing is still in its infancy and it remains a challenge particularly if applied retrospectively.
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- Approach – little evidence, so develop estimation approach
- Bit-stream preservation ► Book storage provision Content preservation ► Conservation procedures
- 2 spreadsheets Legal deposit Newspapers Burney Digital
- A finite amount of funding is available for digitisation, ingest and preservation of a collection. How many items should be digitised without overspending? A digital collection is due to be ingested into an organisation’s digital repository. Migration to a new file format offering superior compression and savings in storage cost is a possibility, but the operation itself will also have a cost. Should the organisation migrate the collection? An organisation is considering outsourcing the storage, preservation and access of its digital collections. The service provider gives a quote. Will outsourcing save the organisation money? A digitisation project within an organisation is not following best practice. What will be the cost of picking up the pieces in 5 years time?