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LIBER Digitisation Conference, Copenhagen

The cost of digitisation and preservation: The LIFE Project. Richard Davies LIFE 2 Project Manager, The British Library. LIBER Digitisation Conference, Copenhagen. 24-26 October 2007. Overview. What is the LIFE Project? LIFE 1 and LIFE 2 LIFE Models Burney Case Study Benefits

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LIBER Digitisation Conference, Copenhagen

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  1. The cost of digitisation and preservation: The LIFE Project Richard DaviesLIFE2 Project Manager,The British Library LIBER Digitisation Conference, Copenhagen 24-26 October 2007

  2. Overview • What is the LIFE Project? • LIFE1 and LIFE2 • LIFE Models • Burney Case Study • Benefits • Further Information

  3. Lifecycle Information for E-literature Project phases: • LIFE1 (12 months) • LIFE2 (18 months)

  4. LIFE starts to answer the question: • £ • What is the long term costof preserving digital material?

  5. Why use lifecycle costing? • Enables evaluation of all the financial commitments for an item in a collection • Important for digital collections, where many costs are largely unknown

  6. Aims • Better understanding of the digital lifecycle • Plan and prepare for digital preservation activities • Evaluate and improve efforts • Compare analogue and digital

  7. LIFE1 project • Literature Review • Economic Lifecycle Model • Generic Preservation Model • Case Studies • International Conference

  8. LIFE1 Case Studies e-Journals Web Archiving Voluntary Deposit

  9. LIFE1 • LIFE2

  10. Aim of LIFE2 To evaluate, refine and further develop the techniques developed in phase one of LIFE

  11. LIFE2 deliverables • Economic Evaluation of LIFE1 • Revision of the LIFE Model • Version 1.1 (October 2007) • Version 2 (Summer 2008) • Updated Preservation Model (Summer 2008) • Final report • End of project conference

  12. Creation or Purchase Acquisition .... Selection .... Submission Agreement Creation or Purchase Acquisition Ingest Metadata Creation Bit-stream Preservation Content Preservation Access .... IPR & Licensing .... Ordering & Invoicing Obtaining • Check-in The LIFE Model v1.1 Lifecycle Stage Ingest Metadata Creation Bit-stream Preservation Content Preservation Access Lifecycle Elements Quality Assurance Re-use Existing Metadata Repository Admin Preservation Watch Access Provision Deposit Metadata Creation Storage Provision Preservation Planning Access Control Holdings Update Metadata Extraction Refreshment Preservation Action User Support Reference Linking Backup Re-ingest Inspection

  13. LIFE Model v1.1: Non-lifecycle Elements

  14. Preservation Actions: • Preservation Tool Cost • Preservation Metadata • Performing preservation action • Quality Assurance Generic LIFE Preservation Model • The GPM predicted large cost and much activity - the challenge is reducing both.

  15. Generic LIFE Preservation Model Preservation cost of n objects of a particular format for the period 0 to t. e.g. 200000 objects of the GIF format for a period of 10 years. Tech Watch Frequency of action Preservation action Preservation = + * • Monitoring formats and software for obsolescence • Preservation planning • Updating metadata Update object and event metadata Cost of Preservation tool Perform preservation action Q/A • The number of preservation actions within the time period calculated

  16. Complexity of file formats Tech Watch Frequency of action Preservation action Preservation = + * • Size • Complexity • Proprietary • Open • Standardised Update metadata Cost of Preservation tool Perform preservation action Q/A Format Complexity =

  17. LIFE2 Case Studies 01101101010101011001110100110110101010101100111010011011010101010110011101001101101010101011001110100110110101010101100111010110 Institutional Repositories Primary Data Digitised Newspapers

  18. The Burney Collection • Purchased by the British Library in 1818 for £13,500 • 1,100 volumes of the earliest known newspapers • 1,000,000 pages from 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. • Re-scanning or re-microfilming is not possible. • Microfilmed in the 1970s • Digitisation started in 1995-96 and ran until 2004.

  19. Questions that arise from Burney • Comparing digital and analogue lifecycles • What is the lifecycle cost to an institution of producing digitised surrogates? • What are the key preservation issues common across digitisation projects of differing scales?

  20. Benefits of LIFE • Assess the financial commitment for acquiring or creating new digital materials • More effective planning for preservation activities • Comparison of digital lifecycles across collections • Evaluation and optimisation of existing digital lifecycles • Predictive future cost of digital preservation

  21. LIFE Website & Blog Websitewww.life.ac.uk LIFE Blogwww.life.ac.uk/blog

  22. Thank you. 01101101010101011001110100110110101010101100111010011011010101010110011101001101101010101011001110100110110101010101100111010110 x • e richard.davies@bl.uk • t +44 (0) 20 7412 7182 • w www.life.ac.uk

  23. Acknowledgements: • LIFE Team(Paul Ayris, Rory McLeod, Helen Shenton & Paul Wheatley) • Special thanks to Ulla Bøgvad Kejser Comments & questions… life@bl.uk www.life.ac.uk

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