1. LIFE Project Lifecycle Information for E-literature Richard Davies LIFE Project Manager The British Library CARL Visit to the BL 27 November 2007

2. 2 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Overview Digital Preservation Team (DPT) What is the LIFE Project? LIFE 1 LIFE 2 Further Information

3. 3 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Digital Preservation Team (DPT)

4. 4 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) DPT Projects & Activities PLANETS Project http://www.planets-project.eu Digital Lives Project http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives Risk Assessment DP Strategic Plans

5. 5 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Lifecycle Information for E-literature Project phases: LIFE 1 (12 months) LIFE 2 (18 months)

6. 6 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) $ LIFE starts to answer the question: What is the long term cost of preserving digital material?

7. 7 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Why use lifecycle costing? Enables evaluation of all the financial commitments for an item in a collection Important for digital collections, where many costs are largely unknown

8. 8 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Aims Better understanding of the digital lifecycle Plan and prepare for digital preservation activities Evaluate and improve efforts Compare analogue and digital

9. 9 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) LIFE 1 project 1.Literature Review 2.Economic Lifecycle Model 3.Generic Preservation Model 4.Case Studies 5.International Conference

10. 10 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) LIFE 1 Case Studies eJournals Web Archiving VDEP

11. LIFE 1 LIFE 2

12. 12 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Aim of LIFE 2 To evaluate, refine and further develop the techniques developed in phase one of LIFE

13. 13 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) The LIFE Model v1.1 Inspection Re-ingestBackup Reference Linking User Support Preservation Action Refreshment Metadata Extraction Holdings Update Access Control Preservation Planning Storage Provision Metadata Creation Deposit Access Provision Preservation Watch Repository Admin Re-use Existing Metadata Quality Assurance Lifecycle Elements Access Content Preservation Bit-stream Preservation Metadata Creation Ingest Check-in Obtaining Ordering & Invoicing IPR & Licensing Submission Agreement Selection Acquisition.... Creation or Purchase Lifecycle Stage Access Content Preservation Bit-stream Preservation Metadata Creation IngestAcquisition Creation or Purchase

14. 14 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) LIFE 2 Case Studies Institutional Repositories Primary Data Digitised Newspapers 01101101 01010101 10011101 00110110 10101010 11001110 10011011 01010101 01100111 01001101 10101010 10110011 10100110 11010101 01011001 11010110

15. 15 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Institutional Repositories

16. 16 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) The Burney Collection Purchased by the British Library in 1818 for £13,500 1,100 volumes of the earliest known newspapers 1,000,000 pages from 17 th, 18 th and 19 th Centuries. Re-scanning or re-microfilming is not possible. Microfilmed in the 1970s Digitisation completed in 2004.

17. 17 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Questions that arise from Burney Comparing digital and analogue lifecycles What is the lifecycle cost to an institution of producing digitised surrogates? What are the key preservation issues common across digitisation projects of differing scales?

18. 18 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) LIFE 2 deliverables Economic Evaluation of LIFE 1 Revision of the LIFE Model Version 1.1 (October 2007) Version 2 (Summer 2008) Updated Preservation Model (Summer 2008) Final report End of project conference

19. 19 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Benefits of LIFE Assess the financial commitment for acquiring or creating new digital materials More effective planning for preservation activities Comparison of digital lifecycles across collections Evaluation and optimisation of existing digital lifecycles Predictive future cost of digital preservation

20. 20 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) LIFE Website & Blog Website www.life.ac.uk www.life.ac.uk LIFE Blog www.life.ac.uk/blog www.life.ac.uk/blog

21. 21 LIFE Project (27 Nov 2007) Thank you. e richard.davies@bl.uk t +44 (0) 20 7412 7182 w www.life.ac.uk | www.bl.uk/dp x 01101101 01010101 10011101 00110110 10101010 11001110 10011011 01010101 01100111 01001101 10101010 10110011 10100110 11010101 01011001 11010110