[Pasig-discuss] The Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit: useful tools for digital preservation and advocacy

[Neil Beagrie]

Apologies for any cross-posting

 

We are pleased to announce that the Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit has been
published by Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
and is available for you to use. 

 

The Toolkit will be of interest to a wide audience in digital preservation.

 

You can access the Toolkit and download any components from here
<http://dx.doi.org/10.18448/16.0013> .

 

The Toolkit is comprised of:

*	A User Guide;
*	Three Factsheets (Benefits, Costs, and Return on Investment);
*	Two Worksheets (the Archive Development Canvas, and the Benefits
Summary for a Data Archive);
*	Four Case Studies from Social Science Data Archives (ADP in
Slovenia, FSD in Finland, LiDA in Lithuania, and UKDS in the UK);
*	A Deliverable Report describing how the toolkit was developed.

 

In addition, the Toolkit describes and links to a number of pre-existing
external tools and relevant studies. 

 

The major use for the Toolkit will be supporting funding and business cases
but elements are likely to be relevant in advocacy to other groups and in
supporting broader operational tasks, or learning and teaching. 

 

The three factsheets on benefits, costs, and return on investment; and the
Archive Development Canvas worksheet ( a variant of the Business Model
Canvas adapted for non-profit archives) are likely to be of widest interest
and relevance outside the social sciences.

 

Some feedback on the draft Toolkit from attendees at our International
Digital Curation Conference 2017 workshop
<https://www.slideshare.net/Nbeagrie/valueimpact-research-dataservicesidcc20
17>  earlier this year included:

 

"This was one of the most relevant and important workshops I have ever
attended in my 14 years of professional experience in this library
profession. Since I am interacting with senior stakeholders (e.g. assistant
vice-presidents, Deans, Chairs, & associate Deans etc.), cost-benefit and
ROI are very important to the development of research data services."

"The worksheets are really useful, and very relevant to be used at an
institutional level."

 

"Highly relevant and good content."

 

The CESSDA SaW Project is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Research and
Innovation Programme under the agreement No.674939. 

 

The development of the Toolkit was led by Charles Beagrie Ltd, with support
from the Slovenian Social Science Data Archive (ADP), the Finnish Social
Science Data Archive (FSD), the Lithuanian Social Science Data Archive
(LiDA), the University of Tartu in Estonia (UTARTU), and the UK Data Service
(UKDS).

 

The Toolkit was developed within the CESSDA SaW project, which aims to
strengthen and widen the CESSDA network. You can find out more about CESSDA
SaW here <http://cessdasaw.eu/> .

 

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