The 4C Project – ‘A Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation’ – will work closely with existing projects and initiatives and will ensure that where existing work is relevant, stakeholders are aware of tools and models and understand how to employ them.
As part of the project’s engagement activities, 4C will be running a workshop at the 2013 iPRES International Conference for the Preservation of Digital Objects in Lisbon, Portgual and is inviting attendees.
A key aim for this workshop is to build bridges between on-going costs-related initiatives to enable 4C to identify areas where good progress has been made and also to understand how current cost models might be augmented to improve ease of use and increase uptake.
Ultimately, 4C will help organizations to approach their investment in data curation and preservation with greater certainty and with greater clarity about what they will get back in return. The project partners will use the workshop as an opportunity to set the scene for their topic, present their approach (“engage, assess, enhance”) and invite feedback from the workshop participants.
Being a part of the 4C network will allow you to exchange requirements, understand your own organisation’s curation costs and find the best cost-effective solutions to achieve you digital curation goals.
If you would like to join the 4C activities at iPRES, register at: http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/registration.html