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dc.contributor.authorDavies, Richard
dc.contributor.authorAyris, Paul
dc.contributor.authorMcLeod, Rory
dc.contributor.authorShenton, Helen
dc.contributor.authorWheatley, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-16T18:17:04Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationDavies, Richard, Paul Ayris, Rory McLeod, Helen Shenton, and Paul Wheatley. 2007. How much does it cost? The LIFE project - costing models for digital curation and preservation. Liber Quarterly 17, 3/4.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1435-5205en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4726593
dc.description.abstractDigital preservation is concerned with the long-term safekeeping of electronic resources. How can we be confident of their permanence, if we do not know the cost of preservation? The LIFE (Lifecycle Information for E-Literature) Project has made a major step forward in understanding the long-term costs in this complex area. The LIFE Project has developed a methodology to model the digital lifecycle and to calculate the costs of preserving digital information for the next 5, 10 or 100 years. National and higher education (HE) libraries can now apply this process and plan effectively for the preservation of their digital collections. Based on previous work undertaken on the lifecycles of paper-based materials, the LIFE Project created a lifecycle model and applied it to real-life digital collections across a diverse subject range. Three case studies examined the everyday operations, processes and costs involved in their respective activities. The results were then used to calculate the direct costs for each element of the digital lifecycle. The Project has made major advances in costing preservation activities, as well as making detailed costs of real digital preservation activities available. The second phase of LIFE (LIFE2), which recently started, aims to refine the lifecycle methodology and to add a greater range and breadth to the project with additional exemplar case studies.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherIgitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Servicesen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://liber.library.uu.nl/en_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000210/index.htmlen_US
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dc.titleHow Much Does it Cost? The LIFE Project - Costing Models for Digital Curation and Preservationen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalLiber Quarterlyen_US
dash.depositing.authorShenton, Helen
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dash.contributor.affiliatedShenton, Helen


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