the economics of sustaining digital information
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The Economics of Sustaining Digital Information. NDIIPP Partners Meeting. Washington, DC July 22, 2010. Brian Lavoie Research Scientist OCLC [email protected]. Sustainable resources. “Sustainability”. Secure digital collections as part of enduring scholarly & cultural record … - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Brian LavoieResearch [email protected]
The Economics ofSustaining Digital Information
The Economics ofSustaining Digital Information
NDIIPPPartners Meeting
Washington, DC
July 22, 2010
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Sustainable resourcesSustainable resources
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“Sustainability”“Sustainability”
Technical
Social Economic
Secure digital collections as part of enduring scholarly & cultural record …
… Sustainable digital preservation
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Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
•Task Force:
• Support: NSF, Mellon, Library of Congress, JISC, CLIR, NARA
• Membership: cross-domain, cross-discipline
• http://brtf.sdsc.edu/
•Frame digital preservation as sustainable economic activity
• Understand problem space
• Interim Report (December 2008)
• Provide recommendations & guidelines
• Final Report (February 2010)
BRTF
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Task Force Final Report (February Task Force Final Report (February 2010)2010)Task Force Final Report (February Task Force Final Report (February 2010)2010)
http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Final_Report.pdf
Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet
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Key messageKey messageKey messageKey message
“… sustainable economics for digital preservation is not just about finding more funds. It is about building an economic activity firmly rooted in a compelling value proposition, clear incentives to act, and well-defined preservation roles and responsibilities.”
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Digital preservation contextsDigital preservation contextsDigital preservation contextsDigital preservation contexts
Commercially-Owned CulturalContent
Collectively-Produced
Web Content
Research Data
Scholarly Discourse
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Sustainability principles & actionsSustainability principles & actions
•Dynamics: Preservation is a series of decisions
• Anticipate and make contingency plans for economic risks
• Secure mechanisms to transfer preservation responsibilities
•Benefits: Manage “demand-side” of preservation
• Aggregate dispersed demand across space & time
• Use option strategies where future value is highly uncertain
•Selection: Scarce resources = prioritization
• Prioritize on basis of projected future use
• Revisit decisions: “de-selection” as important as selection
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Sustainability principles & actions (continued)Sustainability principles & actions (continued)
• Incentives: Strengthen, align, create
• Impose and enforce preservation mandates where appropriate
• Create private incentives to preserve in the public interest
• Diffuse “right to preserve” to encourage third-party archiving
•Organization: Coordinate preservation interests
• Governance: responsibilities, outcomes, strategies, accountability
• Formalize/document governance in policy, SLAs, MOUs
•Resources: Gather sufficient resources & use efficiently
• Ensure resource flows are flexible in face of disruptions
• Leverage economies of scale & scope to reduce costs
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Priorities for near-term actionPriorities for near-term action
Organizational
• Create “preservation-capable” organizations and relationships
Technical
• Invest in building digital preservation capacity
Public policy
• Create policy environment that facilitates & encourages digital preservation
Education and public outreach
• Encourage “culture of preservation”
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More information …More information …
Task Force reports & resources: http://brtf.sdsc.edu/
Questions/comments: [email protected]