Digital Curation Costs - A Risk Management Approach Supported by the Business Model Canvas

Abstract

Data management has been emerging as a specific concern, which when applied through the full lifecycle of the data also has been named of data curation. However, when it comes to the estimation of costs for digital curation the references are rare. To address that problem we propose a method a pragmatic method based on the body of knowledge of risk assessment and the established concept of Business Model Canvas. The details of the method are presented, as also references to a tool to support it, and the demonstration is provided by its application to a real case (a national Web Archive).