[dcc-associates] Keeping Research Data Safe 2 - Final Report Available

[Neil Grindley]

JISC is pleased to announce that the final report for Keeping Research Data 
Safe 2 
(KRDS2)<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.aspx#downloads>
 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.aspx#downloads

A range of supplementary materials in support of this report have also been 
made available on the KRDS project website<http://www.beagrie.com/jisc.php>. 
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
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tel: 0203 006 6059
email: n.grind...@jisc.ac.uk