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h1. 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/|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|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-2|http://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/|http://brtf.sdsc.edu/]
* Economic Sustainability Reference Model (draft)
** [http://4cproject.eu/community-resources/outputs-and-deliverables/ms9-draft-economic-sustainability-reference-model]

* TCP: Total Cost of Preservation (California Digital Library)
** [https://wiki.ucop.edu/display/Curation/Cost+Modeling|https://wiki.ucop.edu/display/Curation/Cost+Modeling]
* Cost model for digital preservation (National Archives of the Netherlands)
** [http://dlmforum.typepad.com/Paper_RemcoVerdegem_and_JS_CostModelfordigitalpreservation.pdf|http://dlmforum.typepad.com/Paper_RemcoVerdegem_and_JS_CostModelfordigitalpreservation.pdf]

*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|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|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|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|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|http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/ESDS_Economic_Impact_Evaluation_tcm8-22229.pdf]

* "Interpares 3: Cost Benefit Models: Final Report", Alexandra Allen, 2011
** [http://www.interpares.org/ip3/display_file.cfm?doc=ip3_cost_benefit_models_final_report.pdfhttp://www.interpares.org/ip3/display_file.cfm?doc=ip3_cost_benefit_models_final_report.pdf]

* "Report on cost parameters for digital repositories", APARSEN Project, 2013
** Detailed analysis of existing digital preservation cost models and a survey of users/potential users of these models
** [http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/03/APARSEN-REP-D32_1-01-1_0.pdf]

For more comprehensive bibliographies see:
* [A Digital Asset Sustainability and Preservation Cost Bibliography (2012)|http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/06/a-digital-asset-sustainability-and-preservation-cost-bibliography/]
* [LIFE Research Review (2005)|http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1856/]
* [Yvonne Friese's Mendeley group on DP costs|http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1704161/digital-preservation-cost/]


*General Costing Information*
* International Standard Cost Model Manual from the [Standard Cost Model (SCM) Network|http://www.administrative-burdens.com/]\*\* [http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/54/34227698.pdf]
* Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) (UK)
** [http://www.hefce.ac.uk/trac|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|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|http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-06-29-digital-preservation-cost-modelling-where-did-it-all-go-wrong]


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