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Other business case guides and a set of resources that may be useful in augmenting or communicating a business case.
Use this to get another take on how to write a business case or to explain concepts and bolster your arguments.
Other business case guides
- Developing a Business Case for Digital Preservation (Minnesota Historical Society)
- Securing funding for a Corporate Digital Archive - Tessella Webinar
- Building a Business Case (Exploiting Activity Data in the Academic Environment) (JISC)
- Building a Business Case for Shared Geospatial Data and Services: A Practitioner’s Guide to Financial and Strategic Analysis for a Multi-participant Program
Demonstrating impact and value
- Making Smart IT Choices: Understanding Value and Risk in Government IT Investments (Center for Technology in Government)
- Balanced Value Impact Model and * Assessing the impact of digitised collections
- Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR)
- Digital Value at Risk Calculator (accompanies commercial Preservica solution, but is free to use if registered)
- JISC Impact Analysis
- JISC Records and Information Management Impact Calculator, 3E’s Benefits Matrix (with examples), Impact Calculator Webinar
- The Value of Research Data Metrics for datasets from a cultural and technical point of view
- NERC Data Value Checklist
- MaxiCulture digital project self assessment tool
Funding links
- Finding funding - National Archives UK blog
- Bring us your revenue models
- If You Build It, Will They Fund? Making Research Data Management Sustainable
Articulating the problem
- The Atlas of Digital Damages
- A crowd sourced collection of images that illustrate digital preservation concepts such as bit rot
- Note: login to Flickr to see the full set of images
- dsalo's digital horror stories
- Largest Data Breaches
Other
- Sustaining our Digital Future and blog post from NLW
- How to feed, nourish and sustain your digital resources
- JISC Infonet Measurement Tools
- Stack Exchange question: What has been found to be the most effective alternate term for “digital preservation” when communicating beyond the library and archives community?
- JISCmrd projects moving towards sustainability
- Skills - DigCurve
- Contextualising New Business Models (CREATe)
- An Emerging Market: Establishing Demand for Digital Preservation Tools and Services
- Business Model Canvas online tool