Cost of action, inaction

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COSTS of DIGITAL PRESERVATION: ACTION

  • activity/roles/process
  • storage
  • advocate for action in DP arena
  • skills (FTE) shifting people in an org. / re-skill / skills up-keep
  • production (digitization)
  • estimate (guesstimation)
  • size of collection (economies of scale)
  • accounting principles (how do we count and measure) are the measures
  • counting the intangible


COST OF ACTION

  • new opportunities ( exploitation, business improvement, re-use, protection of patents, ..., collaboration
  • legal and regulatory
  • storage
  • future funding
  • increase reputation
  • institutional investment

you preserve for a purpose to give yourself opportunities (NG)

INACTION

  • duh! you lose stuff
  • security breach
  • break of IPR
  • lose donors/donations
  • loss of reputation
  • fines
  • proliferation of data (back-log, data-bloat) a clinical condition with the only cure being planning
  • latency (slows down business process and discoverability)
  • loss of one authentic record (if you can't go back to the original)
  • lose competitive parity
  • competitive edge