D6.3.1 Financial Models and Calculation Mechanisms

Contents: Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Concepts 2.1 Sustainability 2.2 Constants, and predictable changes in archive costs 2.3 Time, Risks and Dependencies 2.4 Tradeoffs between Cost, Quality, and Risk 2.5 Activity Models, Lifecycle Costing, and OAIS 3 Making Estimates 3.1 Guidance from PrestoSpace 3.2 Guidance from Other PrestoPRIME Deliverables 4 Detailed Cost Models 4.1 Life Project 4.2 Keeping Research Data …

D2.1.2 Tools for modelling and simulating migration based preservation

Contents: Scope Executive summary 1. Introduction 2. ‘The cost of compromise’ 3. Overview of the tools 4. Walkthrough of the long-term storage planning tool 5. Walkthrough of the interactive storage simulation tool 6. Parameters: What do they mean, where do they come from 7. Assumptions and simplifications 8. Implementation of the models 9. Conclusion and future developments This report describes …

Handboek digitaliseren van analoge audiovisuele objecten (beeld en geluid)

Contents: Inhoud Inleiding 1. Doelstellingen bepalen 2. Beslissingstabel 3. Auteursrechten 4. Selectie materiaal 5. Analyse materiaal 6. Materiële voorbereiding 7. Bepalen kwaliteitsvereisten 8. Digitaliseren 9. Digitale restauratie 10. Kwaliteitscontroles 11. Raadplegingskopieën 12. Archivering en opname in digitaal depot 13. Glossarium 14. Literatuurlijst This deliverable from the Archipel project describes all the process steps involved in digitizing analogue audio, video and …

Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources

Contents: Executive Summary 1. Introduction, Background, and Methodology 2. Defining the Sustainability Challenge 3. Current Funder Strategies for Sustainability 4. Concluding thoughts Appendices Bibliography This report presents the results of a study undertaken by Ithaka S+R, for the JISC Strategic Content Alliance, to examine the ways that both public and private funding bodies, in the academic and cultural heritage sectors, …

The Economics of Long-Term Digital Storage

Kryder’s Law refers to the rapid increase in areal storage density of digital storage media in the past decades and has often been used in digital preservation economic forecasts. Presented at UNESCO’s conference ‘Memory of the World in the Digital Age”, this paper presents a growing body of evidence suggesting that Kryder’s Law will not necessarily hold in the future …

Total Cost of Preservation (TCP): Cost Modeling for Sustainable Services

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Total cost of preservation 3. Predictive reliability Appendix A: Prior work Appendix B: Power series Appendix C: Pay-as-you-go price model Appendix D: Discount factor Appendix E: Paid-up price model References This white paper presents two cost models that could be used to determine the “Total Cost of Preservation (TCP)”. It begins by introducing a range of …