How can Risk Assessment techniques be used to estimate Costs for Digital Curation?

Digital Curation involves maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital assets throughout its lifecycle. As a long term activity, estimating priorities and costs is therefore a key challenge. When considering digital preservation as part of Digital Curation concerns, we realized that the body of knowledge of Risk Management can be helpful to estimate part of the costs that are related to the controls the organization has to put in place to mitigate the perceived preservation risks. Therefore, we propose that risk management for digital repositories can be a new expertize that archivists can consider addressing in order to reinforce their relevance in Digital Curation

Da produção à preservação informacional: desafios e oportunidades

This book focus in the study of past information systems, current information management and digital preservation. It results from a set of text sources, whose approaches reflect the challenges and opportunities in the world of information, treated by specialists dealing with it on a professional and academic level. The objective of this collection of text sources is to be a motto to new contributions to the archival field, potentiating experiences in the work context and new studies in the approached thematics