Digital Preservation
At the end of August 2008, the LIBER Access and Preservation Divisions submitted the LIFE 2 Report to the JISC. LIFE, Lifecycle Information For E-literature, has established Lifecycle and Generic Preservation costing formulae to help stakeholders ascertain the long-term costs of the curation of digital objects and their long term preservation.
Phase 2 of the LIFE project, funded by the JISC in the UK, has validated LIFE's approach to economic modelling and has tested the revised formulae on digital repositories, a prototype national digital preservation service in the UK, and the outputs of digitisation projects in the British Library, comparing analogue and digital preservation costs.
At the 2007 LIBER Conference, LIBER and the e-Depot of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to investigate issues around the long-term digital curation of research content from Europe’s research libraries.