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Lifecycle information for e-literature: full report from the LIFE project

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Digital and Traditional Archives Management Library Science and Information Library Collection Development and Digital Resources

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This Report is a record of the LIFE Project. The Project has been run for one year and its aim is to deliver crucial information about the cost and management of digital material. This information should then in turn be able to be applied to any institution that has an interest in preserving and providing access to electronic collections. \n \nThe Project is a joint venture between The British Library and UCL Library Services. The Project is funded by JISC under programme area (i) as listed in paragraph 16 of the JISC 4/04 circular- Institutional Management Support and \nCollaboration and as such has set requirements and outcomes which must be met and the Project has done its best to do so. Where the Project has been unable to answer specific questions, strong recommendations have been made for future Project work to do so. \n \nThe outcomes of this Project are expected to be a practical set of guidelines and a framework within which costs can be applied to digital collections in order to answer the following questions: \n \n• What is the long term cost of preserving digital material; \n \n• Who is going to do it; \n \n• What are the long term costs for a library in HE/FE to partner with another institution to carry out long term archiving; \n \n• What are the comparative long-term costs of a paper and digital copy of \nthe same publication; \n \n• At what point will there be sufficient confidence in the stability and \nmaturity of digital preservation to switch from paper for publications \navailable in parallel formats; \n \n• What are the relative risks of digital versus paper archiving. \n \nThe Project has attempted to answer these questions by using a developing \nlifecycle methodology and three diverse collections of digital content. The LIFE Project team chose UCL e-journals, BL Web Archiving and the BL VDEP digital collections to provide a strong challenge to the methodology as well as to help reach the key Project aim of attributing long term cost to digital collections. The results from the Case Studies and the Project findings are both surprising \nand illuminating.

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