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)
INACACTION
- 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