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The Economics of Sustaining Digital Information

The Economics of Sustaining Digital Information. NDIIPP Partners Meeting. Washington, DC July 22, 2010. Brian Lavoie Research Scientist OCLC lavoie@oclc.org. Sustainable resources. “Sustainability”. Secure digital collections as part of enduring scholarly & cultural record …

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The Economics of Sustaining Digital Information

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  1. The Economics ofSustaining Digital Information NDIIPP Partners Meeting Washington, DC July 22, 2010 Brian Lavoie Research Scientist OCLC lavoie@oclc.org

  2. Sustainable resources

  3. “Sustainability” • Secure digital collections as part of enduring scholarly & cultural record … • … Sustainable digital preservation Technical Social Economic

  4. Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access BRTF • Task Force: • Support: NSF, Mellon, Library of Congress, JISC, CLIR, NARA • Membership: cross-domain, cross-discipline • http://brtf.sdsc.edu/ • Frame digital preservation as sustainable economic activity • Understand problem space • Interim Report (December 2008) • Provide recommendations & guidelines • Final Report (February 2010)

  5. Task Force Final Report (February 2010) Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Final_Report.pdf

  6. Key message “… sustainable economics for digital preservation is not just about finding more funds. It is about building an economic activity firmly rooted in a compelling value proposition, clear incentives to act, and well-defined preservation roles and responsibilities.”

  7. Digital preservation contexts Research Data Scholarly Discourse Commercially-Owned Cultural Content Collectively-Produced Web Content

  8. Sustainability principles & actions • Dynamics:Preservation is a series of decisions • Anticipate and make contingency plans for economic risks • Secure mechanisms to transfer preservation responsibilities • Benefits:Manage “demand-side” of preservation • Aggregate dispersed demand across space & time • Use option strategies where future value is highly uncertain • Selection:Scarce resources = prioritization • Prioritize on basis of projected future use • Revisit decisions: “de-selection” as important as selection

  9. Sustainability principles & actions (continued) • Incentives:Strengthen, align, create • Impose and enforce preservation mandates where appropriate • Create private incentives to preserve in the public interest • Diffuse “right to preserve” to encourage third-party archiving • Organization:Coordinate preservation interests • Governance: responsibilities, outcomes, strategies, accountability • Formalize/document governance in policy, SLAs, MOUs • Resources: Gather sufficient resources & use efficiently • Ensure resource flows are flexible in face of disruptions • Leverage economies of scale & scope to reduce costs

  10. Priorities for near-term action • Organizational • Create “preservation-capable” organizations and relationships • Technical • Invest in building digital preservation capacity • Public policy • Create policy environment that facilitates & encourages digital preservation • Education and public outreach • Encourage “culture of preservation”

  11. More information … Task Force reports & resources: http://brtf.sdsc.edu/ Questions/comments: lavoie@oclc.org

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