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4C Partners
Related Projects
The 4C Project is a 'Coordination & Support Action.' As such, we draw from and consolidate the work of projects before us and hope to inform those which go on to continue work in digital curation cost modelling in the future.
Projects
The following list represents a registry of relevant work related to or focused (partially or entirely) on the topic of digital curation costs:
TCP (Total Cost of Preservation)
CMDP (Cost Model for Digital Preservation)
Costs of Digital Archiving Vol.2
DP4lib (Digital Preservation for Libraries)
KRDS (Keeping Research Data Safe)
CFM (Cost Forecasting Model for New Digitization Projects)
LIFE (Life Cycle Information for E-Literature)
BRTF-SDPA (Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access)
Useful Articles and Reports
Entry points
- http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1856/1/review.pdf
- http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/CDP/Home
- http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/06/a-digital-asset-sustainability-and-preservation-cost-bibliography/
2013
- Kaur, K. et al. (2013). Report on Cost Parameters for Digital Repositories. Deliverable D32.1 of the APARSEN project.
2012
- Palaiologk, A., Economides, A., Tjalsma, H., Sesink, L. (2012). An activity-based costing model for long-term preservation and dissemination of digital research data: the case of DANS. The International Journal on Digital Libraries, related to the Costs of Digital Archiving vol. 2 project.
- Bote, J., Fernandez-Feijoo, B., Ruiz, S. (2012). The Cost of Digital Preservation: A Methodological Analysis. In CENTERIS 2012 proceedings, available at:
- Addis, M., Jacyno, M., Hall-May, M., McArdle, M. and Phillips, S. (2012) Planning and Managing the 'Cost of Compromise' for AV Retention and Access. Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers Journal, 121(1) pp. 32-38.
- Kiefer, S., Wilson, M. (2012). Ensuring Profitability of Commercial Long Term Digital Preservation. ERCIM News, vol 91, pg 19-20. Related to the ENSURE project.
- Badawy, M., Shehab, E., Baguley, P., Wilson, M. (2012). Towards a cost model for long term digital preservation. In Proc. 2012 ISPA/SCEA Joint International Conference: Assuring cost efficiency: global solution, Brussels, Belgium. Related to the ENSURE project.
- UC Curation Center (2012). Total Cost of Preservation (TCP) - Cost Modelling for Sustainable Services - Rev. 2.0 (draft). Report of the TCP project.
- Hawtin, R., Hammond, M., Gillam, L., Curtis, G. (2012). Cost analysis of cloud computing for research. Report for EPSRC and JISC.
- Schimtt, K., Klaproth, F. (2012). Cost model for a long-term preservation service (German). Report of the DP4lib project.
2011
- Kejser, U., Nielsen, A., Thirifays, A. (2011). Cost Model for Digital Preservation: Cost of Digital Migration. The International Journal of Digital Curation.
- Strodl, S., Rauber, A. (2011). A cost model for small scale automated digital preservation archives. In iPRES 2011 proceedings.
- Addis, M., Wright, R. and Weerakkody, R. (2011) Digital Preservation Strategies: The Cost of Risk of Loss. Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers Journal, 120(1) pp. 16-23, available at:
- Addis, M., Jacyno, M., Hall-May, M., McArdle, M. and Phillips, S. (2011) Planning and Managing the 'Cost of Compromise' for AV Retention and Access. In: 2011 Conference of the International Broadcast Convention, 6-11 September, Amsterdam.
- Xue, P., Badawy, M., Shehab, E., Baguley, P. (2011). Cost modelling for long-term digital preservation: Challenges and issues. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Research ICMR 2011, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow Sep 2011, pp 187-192.
- Snyders, M., Westerhof, H., Ubois, J. (2011). Financial Models and Calculation Mechanism. Deliverable D6.3.1 of the PrestoPRIME project.
2010
- Berman, F., et al. (2010). Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information. Final report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access project.
2007
- Fontaine, K., Hunolt, G., Booth, A., Banks, M. (2007). Observations on cost modelling and performance measurement of long-term archives. Conference Proceedings (2007).
Presentations and Posters
2012
- Abrams, S., Cruse, P., Kunze, J. (2012). Cost modelling for sustainable curation services. Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG), Dublin, October 16-19, 2012.
- Abrams, S., Cruse, P., Kunze, J. (2012). Total cost of preservation: Cost modelling for sustainable services. Screening the Future: Pause, Play, and Press Forward, Los Angeles, May 21-23, 2012.
- Abrams, S., Cruse, P., Kunze, J. (2012). Pay once, preservation forever: a 'paid-up' cost model for long-term preservation," CNI Spring 2012 Membership Meeting, Baltimore, April 2-3, 2012.
- Abrams, S., Cruse, P., Kunze, J. (2012). Total cost of preservation (TCP): Cost modelling for sustainable services," Joint UC Council of University Librarians (CoUL) / Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) meeting, February 16, 2012.
- Badawy, M. (2012). Cost Modelling for Long Term Digital Preservation, DTC 2012 Conference, 17 Jan 2012, Cranfield University.
- JDCL 2012: ACM/IEEE - CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 'International Workshop on Models for Digital Cost Analysis, an international team of experts discuss digitization costs and comment on analysis tools created by the George Washington University Libraries.'
2011
- Wright, R. (2011) Preservation: Scenarios, Risks, Costs. Screening the Future.
- Addis M. (2011) Storage and Services: Planning and managing cost, quality and risk. Presentation at the FIAT/IFTA world congress 2011 as part of the PrestoPRIME pre-conference workshop. 28 Sep 2011. Turin, Italy.
- Hall-May, M. (2011) Storage and Services: Planning and managing cost, quality and risk. Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference. Nov 2011. Austin, Texas.
- Boughida, K., Whittaker, M., Colet, L., Chudnov, D. (2011). Cost forecasting model for new digitization projects (Excel and web tool under development).
- Lefort, A., Conway,E., Shehab, E., Bagley, P., Xue, P., Badawy, M., Wilson,M. (2011). Modelling Digital Preservation costs for ISIS Instrument Data Proc.7th International Digital Curation Conference, Bristol, UK, 05-08 Dec 2011. Related to the ENSURE project.
- Alhawas, A. (2011). Towards Cost Modelling for Long Term Digital Preservation, MSc project poster, Cranfield University, Sep 2011. Related to the ENSURE project.
- Lefort, A. (2011). Modelling Digital Preservation Costs for ISIS Instrument Data. MSc project poster, Cranfield University, Sep 2011. Related to the ENSURE project.
- Shehab, E. (2011). Cost Modelling for Long Term Digital Preservation. UK National Manufacturing Debate 2011, Cranfield University. Related to the ENSURE project.
Events and event reports
Raw data
- Participants of 2nd Knowledge Exchange workshop “Making Data Count” (N.B. This workshop was not focused on cost)
- Participants of Knowledge Exchange Workshop Price of Keeping Knowledge, 17 January 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
- Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Economics of Sustaining Digital Information
2013
- Screening the Future 2013 - Crossing the Boundaries for AV Preservation. By PRESTOCentre, on May 7-8, 2013, London, UK.
2012
- Screening the Future 2012 - Play, Pause and Press Forward. By PRESTOCentre, on 2012.
- Workshop: 'The Costs and Benefits of Keeping Knowledge: economic models for digital preservation'. By Knowledge Exchange, on June 11, 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2010
- Expert Meeting: Price Tags of Digital Preservation Policy Choices. By the National Library of the Netherlands, on September 16, 2010, The Hague, Netherlands.
Other
- Merritt TCP cost and price model, version 2.0 -- 2013-04-25 (.xlsx). Related to the TCP project.
- Cost model for calculating annual costs of the ASU Services (German). Related to the DP4lib project.
- Cost Estimation Toolkit (CET) Software Package. Related to CET paper.
- Blog: Economic Sustainability Reference Model. By Chris Rusbridge.
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