LIFE3: A Predictive Costing Tool For Digital Collections

Life: 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...

: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs

As we develop our ability to preserve digital collections through techniques such as migration and emulation, the decision process of what action to take and when to take it becomes increasingly complex. Cost is a crucial factor to consider but the financial implications of preservation planning decisions are not typically well understood. At a strategic level, there are also significant challe...

Costing the Digital Preservation Lifecycle More Effectively

Having confidence in the permanence of a digital resource requires a deep understanding of the preservation activities that will need to be performed throughout its lifetime and an ability to plan and resource for those activities. The LIFE (Lifecycle Information For E-Literature) and LIFE Projects have advanced understanding of the short and long-term costs in this complex area, facilitating b...

LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs

iDoc: Interactive Analysis, Transcription and Translation of Old Text Documents TIN2006-15694-C02

There are huge historical document collections residing in libraries, museums and archives that are currently being digitised for preservation purposes and to make them available worldwide through large, on-line digital libraries. The main objective, however, is not to simply provide access to raw images of digitised documents, but to annotate them with their real informative content and, in pa...