The LIFE2 project case studies

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The LIFE2 ProjectCase Studies
Richard DaviesLIFE2 Project Manager,The British
Library
LIFE2 Project Conference 23 June 2008
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LIFE2 Presentations
Digitisation as Surrogacy? BL
Newspapers Institutional Repositories?
SHERPA-LEAP? SHERPA-DP Primary Data? Research
Data Costs Study
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Case Study Outputs

• Full Case Study Write-up
• Workflow diagram
• Costing Spreadsheet
• Website www.life.ac.uk
• LIFE Blog www.life.ac.uk/blog

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British Library Newspapers Case Study
Richard DaviesLIFE2 Project Manager,The British
Library
LIFE2 Project Conference 23 June 2008
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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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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

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Whats compared

• Analogue
• Legal Deposit Newspapers
• Ongoing activity
• 133,000 issues a year

• Digital
• Burney Collection
• 3 year project
• 190,969 issues

Per-entity cost
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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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Comparing Analogue and Digital Lifecycles
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Overview of Costs
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Overview of Costs
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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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Thank you.
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• Case Study
• Acknowledgements
• Lucy Evans
• Patrick Fleming
• Richard Gibby
• Ed King
• Stephen Morgan
• Deborah Novotny
• Dawn Olney
• Jane Shaw
• Bhavna Tailor

• LIFE Team
• Acknowledgements
• Rory McLeod
• Paul Ayris
• Rui Miao
• Helen Shenton
• Paul Wheatley

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