Caring for Digital Content: Mapping International Approaches

O’Carroll, Aileen; Collins, Sandra; Gallagher, Damien; Tang, Jimmy X.; Webb, Sharon L.

doi:10.3318/dri.2013.1

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“…Australian National Data Service) or are federated infrastructures which provide the means to access the collections held by many (e.g., US National Sea Ice Data Center). They might provide fairly detailed inventories of the datasets held, and may act as metadata aggregators but do not necessarily host the data (e.g., GeoConnections Discovery Portal; Europeana) (O'Carroll et al 2013). Single site repositories host all the data sets in a single site, accessible through a web interface, though they may maintain back-up or mirror sites in multiple locations (e.g., The UK Data Archive).…”

Section: Scaling Preserving Sharing and Re-using Small Data: Creatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Small Data, Data Infrastructures and Big Data

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Lauriault

2014

SSRN Journal

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Section: Scaling Preserving Sharing and Re-using Small Data: Creatimentioning

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Small Data, Data Infrastructures and Big Data

Kitchin

Lauriault

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…Indeed digital data are highly vulnerable to loss due to obsolescence in software and hardware. As O'Carroll et al (2013) note, "While it is possible for anyone to pick up, look at and read a page from a book written 100 years ago, the same would not be true of a floppy disk containing Word Perfect files from 20 years ago". Without such costs and financial stability, the risk is of "digital decay" and the repository failing to evolve to meet user expectations (Maron, 2014).…”

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Funding models for Open Access digital data repositories

Kitchin

Collins

Frost

2015

Online Information Review

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine funding models for Open Access (OA) digital data repositories whose costs are not wholly core funded. Whilst such repositories are free to access, they are not without significant cost to build and maintain and the lack of both full core costs and a direct funding stream through payment-for-use poses a considerable financial challenge, placing their future and the digital collections they hold at risk. Design/methodology/approach -The authors document 14 different potential funding streams for OA digital data repositories, grouped into six classes (institutional, philanthropy, research, audience, service, volunteer), drawing on the ongoing experiences of seeking a sustainable funding for the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). Findings -There is no straight forward solution to funding OA digital data repositories that are not wholly core funded, with a number of general and specific challenges facing each repository, and each funding model having strengths and weaknesses. The proposed DRI solution is the adoption of a blended approach that seeks to ameliorate cyclical effects across funding streams by generating income from a number of sources rather than overly relying on a single one, though it is still reliant on significant state core funding to be viable. Practical implications -The detailing of potential funding streams offers practical financial solutions to other OA digital data repositories which are seeking a means to become financially sustainable in the absence of full core funding. Originality/value -The review assesses and provides concrete advice with respect to potential funding streams in order to help repository owners address the financing conundrum they face.

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