LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs
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LIFE3: A Predictive Costing Tool For Digital Collections
Predicting the costs of long-term digital preservation is a crucial yet complex task for even the largest repositories and institutions. For smaller projects and individual researchers faced with preservation requirements, the problem is even more overwhelming, as they lack the accumulated experience of the former. Yet being able to estimate future preservation costs is vital to answering a ran...
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