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In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics, Band 51, Heft 3, S. 345-357
ISSN: 1460-2482
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In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics, Band 51, Heft 3, S. 345-357
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 15, Heft 1-2, S. 165-167
ISSN: 1745-2538
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 392-410
ISSN: 0022-0388
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In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 17, Heft 1-2, S. 157-158
ISSN: 1745-2538
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 14, Heft 1-2, S. 165-166
ISSN: 1745-2538
In: The Department of State bulletin: the official weekly record of United States Foreign Policy, Band 33, S. 568-575
ISSN: 0041-7610
In: Journal of risk research: the official journal of the Society for Risk Analysis Europe and the Society for Risk Analysis Japan, Band 17, Heft 8, S. 969-979
ISSN: 1466-4461
In: IEEE transactions on engineering management: EM ; a publication of the IEEE Engineering Management Society, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 41-49
In: Journal of management education: the official publication of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 18-23
ISSN: 1552-6658
In: LIFE Project: London, UK.
Executive summary: The first phase of LIFE (Lifecycle Information For E-Literature) made a major contribution to understanding the long-term costs of digital preservation; an essential step in helping institutions plan for the future. The LIFE work models the digital lifecycle and calculates the costs of preserving digital information for future years. Organisations can apply this process in order to understand costs and plan effectively for the preservation of their digital collections The second phase of the LIFE Project, LIFE2, has refined the LIFE Model adding three new exemplar Case Studies to further build upon LIFE1. LIFE2 is an 18-month JISC-funded project between UCL (University College London) and The British Library (BL), supported by the LIBER Access and Preservation Divisions. LIFE2 began in March 2007, and completed in August 2008. The LIFE approach has been validated by a full independent economic review and has successfully produced an updated lifecycle costing model (LIFE Model v2) and digital preservation costing model (GPM v1.1). The LIFE Model has been tested with three further Case Studies including institutional repositories (SHERPA-LEAP), digital preservation services (SHERPA DP) and a comparison of analogue and digital collections (British Library Newspapers). These Case Studies were useful for scenario building and have fed back into both the LIFE Model and the LIFE Methodology. The experiences of implementing the Case Studies indicated that enhancements made to the LIFE Methodology, Model and associated tools have simplified the costing process. Mapping a specific lifecycle to the LIFE Model isn't always a straightforward process. The revised and more detailed Model has reduced ambiguity. The costing templates, which were refined throughout the process of developing the Case Studies, ensure clear articulation of both working and cost figures, and facilitate comparative analysis between different lifecycles. The LIFE work has been successfully disseminated throughout the digital preservation and HE communities. Early adopters of the work include the Royal Danish Library, State Archives and the State and University Library, Denmark as well as the LIFE2 Project partners. Furthermore, interest in the LIFE work has not been limited to these sectors, with interest in LIFE expressed by local government, records offices, and private industry. LIFE has also provided input into the LC-JISC Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Economic Sustainability of Digital Preservation. Moving forward our ability to cost the digital preservation lifecycle will require further investment in costing tools and models. Developments in estimative models will be needed to support planning activities, both at a collection management level and at a later preservation planning level once a collection has been acquired. In order to support these developments a greater volume of raw cost data will be required to inform and test new cost models. This volume of data cannot be supported via the Case Study approach, and the LIFE team would suggest that a software tool would provide the volume of costing data necessary to provide a truly accurate predictive model.
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