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**Can link to maturity assessement tools and approaches (e.g. AIDA).
A comprehensive toolkit to help practitioners and middle managers build business cases to fund digital preservation activities. Created by the [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ Jisc] funded [http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR SPRUCE Project].
**long term vision/approach
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**short term components - staff, storage, etc
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====[[About the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit]]====
Information about the Toolkit, who it's for, who wrote it, how it was created and what it's current status is.


*who to include:
''Use this to find out more about the Toolkit and how to get the best out of it.''
**Who is writing the business case and for whom they are writing it.
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**And who else in the organisation may need to be involved who isn't engaged at the moment (e.g. financial officers who may need to place preservation as a budget line within the organisation)
** also, the who are the community/stakeholders for which the preservation will be done. Spell out that the material should be considered as digital assets, and assets have value and that value is realised over time by means of preservation/curation. Value must accrue to some stakeholders and this is a process of describing and identifying the supply and demand issues. Who is supplying the assets (and providing the curation service) and who is demanding value from the assets - the users, consumers.
**type of organisation - business objectives, documentation,scale & maturity


*What have you got and what do you need?
**Assess your digital collections
**Identify risks and challenges
**Identify solutions


*Institutional readiness
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*Understand context
====[[Step by step guide to building a business case]]====
This is a step by step guide to the key activities for preparing, planning and writing your digital preservation business case.
 
''Use this to take you, in a chronological order, through the steps you need to think about when constructing a business case.''
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====[[Template for building a business case]]====
A detailed guide for building a business case, structured in the form of a generic business case.
 
''Use this as a guide to writing each section of your business case.''
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====[[When, Why, What, Who and How?]]====
Questions and answers on different aspects of building a digital preservation business case, in the style of a FAQ.
 
''Use this to navigate your way through challenges or sticking points while constructing your business case.''
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====[[Case studies]]====
A collection of Case Studies including actual Business Cases.
 
''Use this to learn the lessons from real business cases from real organisations.''
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====[[Additional resources]]====
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.''
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The textual content of the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit is made available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-SA] license. Attribute as "Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit http://wiki.dpconline.org/". If part reproduced in a business case, the requirement to attribute the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit is waived.
 
For licensing of the accompanying images, please see [[SPRUCE Digital Preservation Illustrations|this page]].
 
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Latest revision as of 15:57, 2 May 2014

Preserving Digital Objects

A comprehensive toolkit to help practitioners and middle managers build business cases to fund digital preservation activities. Created by the Jisc funded SPRUCE Project.

About the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit

About the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit

Information about the Toolkit, who it's for, who wrote it, how it was created and what it's current status is.

Use this to find out more about the Toolkit and how to get the best out of it.

Step by step guide to building a business case

Step by step guide to building a business case

This is a step by step guide to the key activities for preparing, planning and writing your digital preservation business case.

Use this to take you, in a chronological order, through the steps you need to think about when constructing a business case.

Template for building a business case

Template for building a business case

A detailed guide for building a business case, structured in the form of a generic business case.

Use this as a guide to writing each section of your business case.

When, Why, What, Who and How?

When, Why, What, Who and How?

Questions and answers on different aspects of building a digital preservation business case, in the style of a FAQ.

Use this to navigate your way through challenges or sticking points while constructing your business case.

Case Studies

Case studies

A collection of Case Studies including actual Business Cases.

Use this to learn the lessons from real business cases from real organisations.

Additional resources

Additional resources

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.

The textual content of the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit is made available under the CC-BY-SA license. Attribute as "Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit http://wiki.dpconline.org/". If part reproduced in a business case, the requirement to attribute the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit is waived.

For licensing of the accompanying images, please see this page.

SPRUCE Project Jisc

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