Writing a Digital Preservation Business Case (a case study)

Writing a Digital Preservation Business Case (a case study). Paul Wheatley. SPRUCE. Dec 19, 2012.

A project looking at the organization's digital files and writing a business case for a library environment.  Some of the activities included surveys, creating a retention schedule, a preservation metadata schema, and naming convention. This includes a checklist for writing a business case. 

1. Research the context so that it fits the organizations strategic priorities and policies
2. What needs to be achieved; aim at a specific goal
3. Calculating costs for storage, software and services
4. Writing the business case; what is to be achieved, the options, benefits, risks, roles
5. Reviewing the business case

Digital Preservation Matters.