Business Cases

Economically-sustainable digital preservation requires:

Recognition of the benefits of digital preservation on the part of key decision-makers
Incentives for decision-makers to act in the public interest
Processes for selecting digital materials for long-term preservation
Mechanisms to secure an ongoing, efficient allocation of resources to digital preservation activities
Appropriate governance of digital preservation activities

APARSEN will produce a Business Preparedness Report which …

Cost/benefit data collection and modelling

The data holders in the consortium encompass a wide variety of repositories and cost drivers. Many of the cost models which have been published are based on a library model with a limited number of parameters collected. Another model collected a very large number of cost parameters. This limited the ability to produce an explicit …