Abstract
Digital curation and preservation represent new challenges for universities. LIBER has invested considerable effort to engage with the new agendas of digital preservation and digital curation. Through two successful phases of the LIFE project, LIBER is breaking new ground in identifying innovative models for costing digital curation and preservation. Through LIFE’s input into the US-UK Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, LIBER is aligned with major international work in the economics of digital preservation. In its emerging new strategy and structures, LIBER will continue to make substantial contributions in this area, mindful of the needs of European research libraries.
Highlights
Digital Preservation: the Challenge ‘In the wake of the digital revolution, stewardship of learned publications has acquired new opportunities as well as highly complex dimensions
The purpose of this article is to describe work in which LIBER is engaged on behalf of its members in the fields of digital curation and digital preservation to address the issues
As the principal consortium of European research libraries,[2] LIBER has taken the demands of digital preservation very seriously
Summary
Most concretely, it is surprising that more attention has not been paid to the economic aspects of threat models to survivability, especially in the wake of both 9/11 and Katrina, and the associated risks or exposures to those threats. A subsequent letter report in 2003 encouraged the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to ‘specify an explicit threat model be developed early in the ERA’s life cycle,’ noting that a draft specification for follow-on work to the 2003 study ‘makes occasional mention of measures that might help to avert threats ... The LIFE 2 Model does allow for back-up, replication and synchronisation, and a partnership involving NARA, the University of Maryland and the San Diego Supercomputer Center proposed a model for a persistent archive that addressed risk management and disaster recovery as well as technology evolution.[20] there has been no analysis of the economic issues addressing, for example, what the optimum number of replication facilities would be when balanced against the probable occurrence of various kinds of natural or man-made disasters. Any model for sustainability and for the costs associated with it must take such unpredictable considerations into account, if only to allow for contingency budgeting
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