[Rdap] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] JISC Keeping Research Data Safe 2 Final Report

[Richard Hill]

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From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition [mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org]
On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 12:26 PM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] JISC Keeping Research Data Safe 2 Final Report

 

JISC has just released the final report of a major study of the costs of
preserving research data. The details are below.

 

Clifford Lynch

Director, CNI

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JISC is pleased to announce that the final
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.as
px#downloads>  report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) is now
available from the JISC website. This KRDS2 study report presents the
results of a survey of available cost information, validation and further
development of the KRDS activity cost model, and a new taxonomy to help
assess benefits alongside costs. The KRDS2 study was conducted by Charles
Beagrie Ltd. and associates.

 

KRDS2 has delivered the following:

 

.         A survey of cost information for digital preservation, collating
and making available 13 survey responses for different cost datasets;

 

.         The KRDS activity model has been reviewed and its presentation and
usability enhanced;

 

.         Cost information for four organisations (the Archaeology Data
Service; National Digital Archive of Datasets; UK Data Archive; and
University of Oxford) has been analysed in depth and presented in case
studies;

 

.         A benefits framework has been produced and illustrated with two
benefit case studies from the National Crystallography Service at
Southampton University and the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.

 

One of the key findings on the long-term costs of digital preservation for
research data was that the cost of archiving activities (archival storage
and preservation planning and actions) is consistently a very small
proportion of the overall costs and significantly lower than the costs of
acquisition/ingest or access activities for all the case studies in KRDS2.
As an example the respective activity staff costs for the Archaeology Data
Service are Access (c.31%), Outreach/Acquisition/Ingest (c.55%), Archiving
(c.15%).This confirms and supports a preliminary finding in KRDS1.

 

Full URL:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.asp
x#downloads

 

A range of supplementary materials in support of this report have also been
made available on the KRDS <http://www.beagrie.com/jisc.php>  project
website. This includes the ULCC Excel Cost Spreadsheet for the NDAD service
together with a Guide to Interpreting and Using the NDAD Cost Spreadsheet.
The NDAD Cost Spreadsheet has previously been used as an exercise in digital
preservation training events and may be particularly useful in training
covering digital preservation costs. The accompanying Guide provides
guidance to those wishing to understand and experiment with the spreadsheet.

 

 

Neil Grindley

Programme Manager

Digital Preservation & Records Management

1st Floor Brettenham House (South)

5 Lancaster Place

London

WC2E 7EN

tel: 0203 006 6059

email: n.grindley at jisc.ac.uk

 

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