A Report by the Preserving Digital Public Television Project Part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the Library of Congress, by Yvonne Ng (NYU), Nan Rubin (WNET), and Kara Van Malssen (NYU) et alt., Feb. 2010.


Table of Contents
Executive Summary 3
Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview: A Sustainable
Approach to Digital Preservation 5
Chapter 2 - Why Save Program Files? Making the Case
For Preservation 9
Chapter 3 - Requirements for Sustainable Preservation 19
Chapter 4 - Economics of Sustainable Preservation. 36
Chapter 5 - Case Study: Preserving Digital Public Television,
Costing the Prototype Repository 54
Chapter 6 - Conclusion: Public Television Has the Capacity
to Support Digital Preservation 66
Appendix A - Economic Models Based on Market Analysis
of Stakeholder Interests 69
Appendix B - NYU PDPTV Repository Costing Case Study 74
B-1 - Costs by Type / Function 75
B-2 - Staff By Type / Function. 79
B-3 - Start Up vs Ongoing Costs 80
Works Cited 85

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