Thanks for the feedback and interest. There is a lot more to come with publication of the final report and additional supplementary materials will appear on the website with supporting extracts from the report itself. The draft final report is currently being edited and will be peer-reviewed later this month. We hope JISC will be able to make it available in March. We will send out a further announcement to the listservs once its out.

The report will have further detailed analysis of costs from four of our partners in the survey (University of Oxford, the Archaeology Data Service, University of London Computer Centre ( National Digital Archive of Datasets) , and the UK Data Archive).

In addition we have done more work on analysing benefits alongside costs and there will be two detailed benefits studies from the UK Data Archive and the eCrystals National Crystallographic Service at Southampton University illustrating the benefits framework developed/led by our colleague Brian Lavoie at OCLC Research.

In future we would really like to do more work on applying the cost model in other services, develop the benefits framework we have started, and see how our approach can be adapted for research data in disciplines whose curation/preservation is centred on the research group rather than data archives and OAIS-like archival institutions. Currently involved in either work in progress or discussions in the USA, UK and Europe which hopefully will help to move some of these forward. Keep an eye on the blog for future updates!

Neil

I received notice of this report via a listserv, but I’m curious to see some aggregated analysis of the data. What’s the most expensive account of access? What’s the average expense in access? Is that coming soon?

What else is on the horizon?

Thanks for doing these surveys — I’m definitely interested.

hopefully it should be a positive development for users – if it can broaden and strengthen organisational support by combining efforts in the field.