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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 Blogwww.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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What’s compared

Analogue

Legal Deposit Newspapers

Ongoing activity133,000 issues a year

Digital

Burney Collection

3 year project190,969 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

Lifecycle

Lifecycle Stage

Lifecycle Element

Lifecycle Sub-element

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Overview of Costs

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Overview of Costs

LIFE Stage

C Aq In M BP CP Ac Total

Digital£2.2

5£1.20 £0.91 £0.24 £0.30 £0.10 £0.38 £5.48

Analogue£0.0

0£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£0.0

0£1.20 £0.91 £0.24 £0.30 £0.10 £0.38 £3.13

Analogue£0.0

0£1.18 £1.50 £0.27 £0.87 £0.34 £0.39 £4.56

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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.

e richard.davies@bl.ukt +44 (0) 20 7412 7182

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LIFE TeamAcknowledgements► Rory McLeod► Paul Ayris► Rui Miao► Helen Shenton► Paul Wheatley

Case StudyAcknowledgements► Lucy Evans ► Patrick Fleming► Richard Gibby ► Ed King ► Stephen Morgan ► Deborah Novotny ► Dawn Olney ► Jane Shaw ► Bhavna Tailor