Case studies

Use this to learn the lessons from real business cases from real organisations, validating your approach, and picking up useful language and communication techniques.

This is a collection of case studies focusing on writing business cases for digital preservation activities in memory organisations.

SPRUCE case studies

These case studies are sourced from activities conducted as part of SPRUCE Project Awards.

	Bishopsgate library case study A collections audit and business case focused on taking the first steps of digital preservation.
	Institute of education case study A review of approach and generation of a business case for digital administrative record keeping.
	Northumberland estates case study Assessment of digital repository solutions and an associated business case for digital preservation.
	Lovebytes case study A trial of media stabilisation and content preservation along with a business case to move to a production status.

SCAPE Project business case templates

Use this to explore key elements of business cases focused on the application of SCAPE Project technology.

These templates were developed with the support of the European Union under FP7 ICT-2009.4.1.

	Jpylyzer business case template Using Jpylyzer in a production environment: benefits, risks and a sample business case
	SCAPE Platform business case template Using SCAPE technology to implement large scale preservation processing in a production environment: benefits, risks and a sample business case
	Planning and Watch business case template Using FITS, C3PO, SCOUT and PLATO in a production environment: benefits, risks and a sample business case

Other business cases

University of St Andrews business case A business case focused on research data management.

Also see...

• State of Utah Electronic Records Management Business Case
• Digital Information Management and Storage Strategy Project Business Case (Dept Education, Tasmania)
• Building an ROI Business Case for Email Archiving