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h1. Digital Preservation 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)

* 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][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
** [http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/economic-sustainability-ref-model-page/|http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/economic-sustainability-ref-model-page/]



*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]

*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]
* 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]
* 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]


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