Edukad projektid

eesti keeles / in English

Collaboration to Clarify the Cost of Curation

acronym: 4C
start: 2013-02-01
end: 2015-01-31
 
programme: FP7 - Euroopa Liidu 7. raamprogramm
sub-programme: ICT - Info- ja kommunikatsioonitehnoloogiad
instrument: CSA-CA - Koordineerivad ja toetavad tegevused - koordineerivad tegevused
call identifier: FP7-ICT-2011-9
project number: 600471
duration in months: 24
partner count: 13
 
abstract: The Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation (4C) project will help organisations across Europe to more effectively invest in digital curation and preservation. Making an investment inevitably involves a cost and existing research on cost modelling provides the starting point for the 4C work. But the point of an investment is to realise a benefit, so work on cost must also focus on benefit, which must then encompass related concepts such as ‘risk’, ‘value’, ‘quality’ and ‘sustainability’. Organisations that understand this will be more able to effectively control and manage their digital assets over time, but they may also be able to create new cost-effective solutions and services for others. Existing research into cost modelling is far from complete and there has been little uptake of the tools and methods that have been developed and very little integration into other digital curation processes. The main objective of the 4C project is, therefore, to ensure that where existing work is relevant, that stakeholders realise and understand how to employ those resources. But the additional aim of the work is to closely examine how they might be made more fit-for-purpose, relevant and useable by a wide range of organisations operating at different scales in both the public and the private sector. These objectives will be achieved by a coordinated programme of outreach and engagement that will identify existing and emerging research and analyse user requirements. This will inform an assessment of where there are gaps in the current provision of tools, frameworks and models. The project will support stakeholders to better understand and articulate their requirements and will clarify some of the complexity of the relationships between cost and other factors. All of this activity will enable the definition of a research and development agenda and a business engagement strategy which will be delivered to the European Commission in the form of a roadmap.
partner no and role partner name country contact person web page
1 coordinator Higher Education Funding Council for England UK Neil Grindley http://www.jisc.ac.uk
2 partner DET KONGELIGE BIBLIOTEK, NATIONALBIBLIOTEK OG KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITETSBIBLIOTEK DK Ulla Bøgvad Kejser http://www.kb.dk
3 partner INESC ID - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM LISBOA PT Ilda Ribeiro
4 partner STATENS ARKIVER DK Alex Thirifays http://www.sa.dk
5 partner DEUTSCHE NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK DE Sabine Schrimpf http://www.dnb.de
6 partner UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW UK Joy Davidson http://www.gla.ac.uk
7 partner UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX UK Herve L'Hours http://www.essex.ac.uk
8 partner KEEP SOLUTIONS LDA PT Miguel Ferreira http://www.keep.pt
9 partner DIGITAL PRESERVATION COALITION LIMITED BY GUARANTEE*DPC UK William Kilbride http://www.dpconline.org/
10 partner VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG DER IT-SICHERHEIT IN OSTERREICH AT Andreas Rauber http://www.sba-research.org
11 partner THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH UK Kevin Ashley http://www.ed.ac.uk
12 partner KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW NL Heiko Tjalsma http://www.knaw.nl
13 partner Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu EE Raivo Ruusalepp http://www.nlib.ee