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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. DP4LIB

DP4lib Cost Model (DP4lib)


Creator and Funding
Developed by the German National Library (DNB) and funded by the German research Foundation (DFG).
Status
The latest version of the DP4Lib tool is from 2012. Validation of the model was taking place in 2013.
Purpose
The purpose is to support estimating the costs for budgeting; accounting or charging.
Information assets
Digital documents, digitised books.
Activities
Ingest, Archival Storage, Preservation Planning, Data Management, Administration, Management, Access.
Resources
Capital (hardware, software, external services), labour, direct and indirect costs.
Time
Past, Present.
Variables
Hardware, software, people, accommodation, external service, transfer - broken further down; linear depreciation of capital (acquisitions), keys for distributing indirect costs.
Type of tool
Recording costs, analysis.
Availability of tool
The documentation and description of the model is available online (The tool is only available in German, and not directly available on the website).

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