JISC Announces Final Report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) Study

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that the final report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) study is now available online. The first Keeping Research Data Safe study (Beagrie, Chrusczcz and Lavoie, JISC 2008) made a major contribution to understanding of long-term preservation costs for research data by developing a cost model and indentifying cost variables for preserving research data in UK universities. This aim of this follow-on project (2009/2010) was to provide a larger body of material and evidence against which existing and future data preservation cost modeling exercises could be tested and validated. This report presents the results of a survey of available cost information, validation and further development of the Keeping Research Data Safe activity cost model, and a new taxonomy to help assess benefits alongside costs. A range of supplementary materials in support of this report are available on the project website.