What am I sustaining
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OVERVIEW
A good sustainability plan needs to demonstrate a clear understanding of what it is that you are intending to sustain. This might include:
- Resource/content
- People
- Activity
The types of maintenance that may be required include:
- Availability - ensuring the resource is available to all those who need it, whenever they require it. On the Web this means offering an uninterrupted service 24 hours a day, so suitable technical support will be required.
- Security procedures - user authentication, management of access privileges, virus protection, backup systems, and storage of archival copies (including remote storage).
- Digital rights management - systems to control correct use of digital assets.
- Content - maintaining the content itself (if applicable updating content with new material, editing/removing existing material, updating metadata in existing records, correcting errors) - keeping the resource dynamic, relevant and up-to-date.
- Future watch - keeping up to date with emerging technologies, ensuring the delivery system is compatible with latest browsers, conforms to current accessibility guidelines, is platform independent, responsive to changing user
- Administration - need staff and equipment to support and administer all the above. If a project wants to keep on experienced staff, there needs to be a smooth transition between project and service.
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Sustainability case studies
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (case study)
Electronic Enlightenment (case study)
BOPCRIS, University of Southampton (case study)
The National Archives (case study)
Hindawi Publishing Corporation (case study)
L’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (case study)
DigiZeitschriften (case study)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (case study)
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (case study)
Further resources
Ithaka report
Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources
