The LIFE Project aims to estimate the long-term costs of preserving digital materials by developing a lifecycle cost model. The LIFE Model breaks down the preservation lifecycle into acquisition, ingest, metadata, access, storage, and preservation costs. It can calculate preservation costs over various time periods like 5, 10, or 100 years. The LIFE 2 Project will expand and validate the original LIFE Model through additional case studies and work on digitization costs and primary data preservation. The LIFE Model helps organizations, libraries, archives, and funders better plan and budget for long-term digital preservation.

1. How much does it cost? The LIFE Project Richard Davies LIFE 2 Project Manager The British Library LIBER 2007 5 th July 2007

6. LIFE 1 Case Studies Web Archiving eJournals Voluntary deposit

7. What is the LIFE Model? the complete Lifecycle cost over time T

9. The LIFE Model - Ingest Example (Year 5): Hand-held Monograph £4.50

10. The LIFE Model - Metadata Example (Year 5): Hand-held Monograph £2.25

11. The LIFE Model - Access Example (Year 5): Hand-held Monograph £0.00

12. The LIFE Model - Storage Example (Year 5): Hand-held Monograph £3.15

13. The LIFE Model - Preservation Example (Year 5): Hand-held Monograph £0.33

14. Generic LIFE Preservation Model

15. The LIFE Model £0.33 Total Cost in Year 5 = £10.23 £3.15 £0.00 £2.25 £4.50 £0.00 + + + + + Example (Year 5): Hand-held Monograph

17. LIFE – Phase 2 LIFE 2

21. LIFE 2 Case Studies SHERPA-DP Medical Research Council Burney Collection WP2 WP4 WP3 WP2 SHERPA-LEAP

28. Thank you. w www.life.ac.uk e [email_address]