title: A Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation – The 4C Project
creators: Neil Grindley
abstract: This poster will describe actions being taken in the context of the 4C Project (a Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation), an EC-funded two-year coordination action that aims to promote a better understanding of the potential for undertaking digital curation activity. The approach it is taking is to focus firstly on costs but then to link that concept to related ones such as benefits, value, risk and sustainability, therefore taking a holistic economic view of digital curation. This is important as it links up with various strands of previous work, both on costs and activity models; and on benefits, sustainability and the broader economic framework for digital preservation and access. The purpose of the poster is to describe the novel framework for activity that was proposed in response to the EC FP7-ICT-2011-9 call, and to summarily describe some of the outputs and objectives in a graphical and accessible format.
keywords: digital curation costs economics benefits sustainability risk 4c european commission lisbon