1. The LIFE2 Project Case Studies
Richard Davies LIFE2 Project Manager, The British Library
LIFE2 Project Conference
23 June 2008
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2. LIFE2 Presentations Digitisation as Surrogacy: ► BL Newspapers
Institutional Repositories: ► SHERPA-LEAP ► SHERPA-DP
Primary Data: ► Research Data Costs Study
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3. Case Study Outputs Full Case Study Write-up Workflow diagram
Costing Spreadsheet
Website
LIFE Blog
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4. British Library Newspapers Case Study
Richard Davies LIFE2 Project Manager, The British Library
LIFE2 Project Conference
23 June 2008
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5. To develop a method of comparing analogue and digital lifecycles
Case Study Aim
To develop a method of comparing analogue and digital lifecycles
and then test the approach by applying it to analogue and digital lifecycles from British Library collections
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6. The Burney Collection 1,100 volumes of the earliest known newspapers
1,000,000 pages
Purchased in 1818 for £13,500
Digitised from the microfilm
This is a common scenario for many Libraries and means that the long-term management of the surrogates takes on a more important aspect.
Both of these surrogates have their own problems in terms of deterioration and risk and lend themselves to further analysis.
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7. Legal Deposit Newspapers
What’s compared
Analogue
Legal Deposit Newspapers
Ongoing activity
133,000 issues a year
Digital
Burney Collection
3 year project
190,969 issues
- Burney to Burney not a fair comparison
Per-entity cost
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8. Case Study Process Develop analogue and digital workflows
Terminology issues
How can we get a meaningful comparison?
Future digitisation costs (Creation Stage)
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9. 2 spreadsheets
Legal deposit Newspapers
Burney Digital
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10. Comparing Analogue and Digital Lifecycles
Lifecycle
Lifecycle Stage
Lifecycle Element
Sub-element 
Bit-stream preservation ► Book storage provision
Content preservation ► Conservation procedures
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11. Overview of Costs Cannot be taken as a straight comparison
A number of similar stages around Aq, M and Ac
Role of Creation cost needs to be looked at carefully
Digitisation cost trend heading down
Analogue collections now well set-up – smooth running of teams etc
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12. Overview of Costs LIFE Stage C Aq In M BP CP Ac Total Digital £2.25
£1.20
£0.91
£0.24
£0.30
£0.10
£0.38
£5.48
Analogue
£0.00
£1.18
£1.50
£0.27
£0.87
£0.34
£0.39
£4.56
LIFE Stage C Aq In M BP CP Ac
Total
Digital
£0.00
£1.20
£0.91
£0.24
£0.30
£0.10
£0.38
£3.13
Analogue
£1.18
£1.50
£0.27
£0.87
£0.34
£0.39
£4.56
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13. Overall Conclusions Comparison is complex but workable
Retrospective costing adds complications
Similar costs across a number of LIFE Stages
Analogue lifecycles are well established compared to digital
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14. Thank you. e richard.davies@bl.uk t +44 (0) 20 7412 7182
LIFE Team
Acknowledgements
Rory McLeod
Paul Ayris
Rui Miao
Helen Shenton
Paul Wheatley
Case Study
Acknowledgements
Lucy Evans
Patrick Fleming
Richard Gibby
Ed King
Stephen Morgan
Deborah Novotny
Dawn Olney
Jane Shaw
Bhavna Tailor e
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