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Curation Costs Exchange

Understanding and comparing digital curation costs to support smarter investments

  1. Understand your costs
  2. Summary of Cost Models
  3. CMDA

Cost Model for Digital Archiving (CMDA)


Creator and Funding
Developed by Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) of the Netherlands.
Status
The project creating CMDA has ended.
Purpose
Estimate costs in order to assist management in achieving economic sustainability for data archiving.
Information assets
Research datasets from social sciences; humanities and archaeology.
Activities
Ingest, Archival Storage, Preservation Planning, Data Management, Administration.
Resources
Capital (office, minimal IT equipment) labour (general, archivists, ICTa, ICTb).
Time
Past, Present.
Variables
Number of files, metadata quality, complexity; type of personnel, quality standards applied.
Type of tool
Accounting, analysis.
Availability of tool
None. There is a description of the model on the DANS website.

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