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The Incentives to PreserveDigital Materials:
Roles, Scenarios, and Economic Decision-making
Brian LavoieResearch Scientist
OCLC Research
CNI Spring Task Force Meeting, April 29, 2003
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RoadmapRoadmap
• Background: Economics of Digital Preservation
• Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials
• Framework for Analyzing Incentives
• Implications
• Summary
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Digital Preservation Research:
• Architectures• Metadata• Preservation strategies• Economics
Digital Preservation Research:
• Architectures• Metadata• Preservation strategies• Economics
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Economics of Digital PreservationEconomics of Digital Preservation
Digital collections growing …Digital collections growing …
… but long-term retention uncertain… but long-term retention uncertain
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Fundamental Economic QuestionsFundamental Economic Questions
• “IF we preserve, how much will it cost?”
• But: “WILL we preserve?”
Or …What are the incentives to preserve?
• Important because digital preservation …… likely to be routine, ongoing component of digital asset lifecycle management
… extends beyond collecting institutions to stakeholders not traditionally associated with preservation
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Analysis of IncentivesAnalysis of Incentives• Incentives in practice:
– Cost/benefit analysis for a proposed activity
– Quantify incentives (costs and benefits)
– But: quantifying digital preservation costs and benefits problematic
• Useful to have some form of predictive model to address question “Will we preserve?”
• Strategy: develop simple framework that …– Identifies key decision-making roles in digital preservation
– Characterizes set of “core scenarios” representing possible ways decision-making roles can be organized in a digital preservation activity
– Apply economic theory to core scenarios to yield qualitative descriptions of the incentives to preserve in each scenario
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Incentives to PreserveIncentives to Preserve
(1) Recognition of a value or benefit in preserving a set of digital materials“need to preserve” = demand for digital preservation services(1) Recognition of a value or benefit in preserving a set of digital materials“need to preserve” = demand for digital preservation services
(2) Willingness to implement and carry out processes necessaryto preserve digital materials“willingness to preserve” = supply of digital preservation services
(2) Willingness to implement and carry out processes necessaryto preserve digital materials“willingness to preserve” = supply of digital preservation services
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Digital Preservation:Decision-Making RolesDigital Preservation:Decision-Making Roles
Rights HolderRights Holder
BeneficiaryBeneficiaryArchiveArchive
- Holds intellectual property rights- Right to initiate preservation- Can cede or grant right to another entity
- Holds intellectual property rights- Right to initiate preservation- Can cede or grant right to another entity
- Benefits from preservation- Directly: as end user- Indirectly: on behalf of end-users
- Benefits from preservation- Directly: as end user- Indirectly: on behalf of end-users
- Implements and manages preservation process- Implements and manages preservation process
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Roles and IncentivesRoles and Incentives
• Decision-makers are roles, not distinct entities (Entity: library, publisher, person, etc.)
• Multiple entities can share the same role
• Beneficiary: embodies need to preserve
• Archive: embodies willingness to preserve
• Rights Holder: empowers incentives
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Core Scenarios of Digital PreservationCore Scenarios of Digital Preservation
Beneficiary Centripetal Model
Centrifugal Model
Consolidated Model
Supply-Side Model
Demand-Side Model
ArchiveRightsHolder
RightsHolder
RightsHolder
RightsHolder
RightsHolder
Archive
Archive
Archive
Archive
Beneficiary
Beneficiary
Beneficiary
Beneficiary
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Economic Theory and IncentivesEconomic Theory and Incentives
• Core scenarios highlight …– Relationships among key decision-making roles
associated with digital preservation
– Relationships between need to preserve, willingness to preserve, and right to preserve
– How do these relationships impact incentives?
• Economics: rich literature dealing with incentives in settings similar to “core scenarios”– Prospects for sufficient incentives to emerge; factors
that may diminish incentives
– Policies to enhance incentives where needed
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Example …Example …
• Licensed/Subscribed digital content:
– e-journals, e-books, online databases
• Common features:
– Accessed over network (Rights Holder’s server)
– Ownership/physical possession of “bits” resides with Rights Holder
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Benefits from PreservationBenefits from Preservation
• For some period of time, Rights Holder is also a Beneficiary from preservation:– Digital materials’ “economic life”
• But collecting institutions may perceive benefits from preservation beyond this period:– E.g., preserving scholarly or cultural record
• At some point, Rights Holder ceases to be Beneficiary, but other institutions continue in that role– I.e., Rights Holder becomes entity distinct from
Beneficiary
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Positive ExternalitiesPositive Externalities
EconomicActivity
EconomicActivity
CostCost
Person APerson APerson BPerson B
Examples:• Vaccination• Digital Preservation
Examples:• Vaccination• Digital Preservation
BenefitsBenefits
BenefitsBenefits
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Back to Core Scenarios …Back to Core Scenarios …
• Rights Holder is distinct from Beneficiary– Need to Preserve separate from Right to Preserve
– Centrifugal Model: RH, B, and A all separate
– Supply-Side Model: RH, A same; B separate
– Consolidated Model: B, A same; RH separate
• In each of these models, economically sustainable digital preservation must overcome the incentive gap created by the positive externality
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Textbook Solutions …Textbook Solutions …
• Government Intervention:– Provide the activity
– Fund the activity through subsidies
• Legal Environment:– Force Rights Holder to undertake activity (compensated through
subsidy)
– Force Rights Holder to grant right to preserve to another entity
• Negotiation:– Beneficiary persuades Rights Holder to undertake preservation
(Beneficiary pays)
– Beneficiary persuades Rights Holder to grant right to preserve (Beneficiary pays)
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… And a Real-World Example… And a Real-World Example
Libraries(Beneficiaries)
Publishers(Rights Holder)
JSTOR(Archive)
• Free up space• Eliminate redundancies• Lower long-term storage costs• Facilitate access
• Free up space• Eliminate redundancies• Lower long-term storage costs• Facilitate access
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Archiving Journal Content in Digital FormArchiving Journal Content in Digital Form
• Negotiates with Publishers• Reformats content• Manages storage + access• Charges access + archiving fees to libraries
• Negotiates with Publishers• Reformats content• Manages storage + access• Charges access + archiving fees to libraries
CentrifugalModel
CentrifugalModel
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SummarySummary
• Incentives to preserve fundamental to developing economically sustainable digital preservation activities– For any set of digital materials, need to examine underlying
motivations to undertake digital preservation
• To analyze incentives, characterize organization of decision-making roles for a particular digital preservation activity:– Identify relationships between incentives to preserve (need to
preserve, willingness to preserve) and right to preserve
• Use these relationships to identify potential misalignment of preservation incentives and objectives. This will inform:– Organization of digital preservation activities a priori
– Design of policies to enhance incentives ex post
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For More Information …For More Information …
Paper:http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/digipres/
incentives-dp.pdf
Contact:[email protected]