Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Getting to the Bottom Line: 20 Cost Questions for Digital Preservation

Getting to the Bottom Line: 20 Cost Questions for Digital Preservation. MetaArchive. March 11, 2015.
The MetaArchive Cooperative has, for over a decade, worked to respond transparently to many of the questions they have about the cost of doing digital preservation. These 20 questions will help institutions compare digital preservation solutions. Features and functionality are important, and often easy to identify. But it is more difficult to identify and compare short- and long-term costs, including a variety of  sometimes hidden fees.

The questions are directed at learning about fees, memberships, storage costs, content limits, cost of having the content geographically distributed, hardware and software costs, services and products that the fees pay for, billing plans, and costs for backing up, retrieving or deleting content.


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