LIFE ProjectLifecycle Information for E-literature

Richard DaviesLIFE Project ManagerThe British Library

CARL Visit to the BL27 November 2007

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Overview

► Digital Preservation Team (DPT)

► What is the LIFE Project?

► LIFE1

► LIFE2

► Further Information

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Digital Preservation Team (DPT)

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DPT Projects & Activities

► PLANETS Projecthttp://www.planets-project.eu

► Digital Lives Projecthttp://www.bl.uk/digital-lives

► Risk Assessment

► DP Strategic Plans

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Lifecycle Information for E-literature

Project phases:

► LIFE1 (12 months)

► LIFE2 (18 months)

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$LIFE starts to answer the question:

What is the long term costof preserving digital material?

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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

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Aims

► Better understanding of the digital lifecycle

► Plan and prepare for digital preservation activities

► Evaluate and improve efforts

► Compare analogue and digital

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LIFE1 project

1. Literature Review

2. Economic Lifecycle Model

3. Generic Preservation Model

4. Case Studies

5. International Conference

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LIFE1 Case Studies

eJournals

Web Archiving

VDEP

LIFE1 LIFE2

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Aim of LIFE2

To evaluate, refine and further develop the techniques developed in phase one of LIFE

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The LIFE Model v1.1

Inspection

Re-ingest BackupReference

Linking

User Support

Preservation Action

RefreshmentMetadata Extraction

Holdings Update

Access Control

Preservation Planning

Storage Provision

Metadata Creation

Deposit

Access Provision

Preservation Watch

Repository Admin

Re-use Existing

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Quality Assurance

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PreservationMetadataCreation

Ingest

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Obtaining

Ordering & Invoicing

IPR & Licensing

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LIFE2 Case Studies

Institutional Repositories

Primary Data

Digitised Newspapers

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Institutional Repositories

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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 17th, 18th and 19th

Centuries.

► Re-scanning or re-microfilming is not possible.

► Microfilmed in the 1970s

► Digitisation completed in 2004.

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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?

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LIFE2 deliverables

► Economic Evaluation of LIFE1

► 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

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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

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LIFE Website & Blog

Websitewww.life.ac.uk

LIFE Blogwww.life.ac.uk/bl

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Thank you.

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