Digital Heritage (Zeeuwse Bibliotheek)

9 questions for your business model

Activity perspective

PARTNERS

   Archives, other collection owners

What can partners do better than you or at a lower cost (and thus leverage your business model)?

KEY ACTIVITIES

   Digitizing
   Metadata Management
   Digital Preservation Management

What are your key activities and how difficult are they to perform (by others)?

KEY RESOURCES

   Digital Collections (information assets)
   Repository

What are your key resources and how difficult are they to copy (by others)?

Offer perspective

VALUE PROPOSITION

   Long term access to digital heritage information

Which one of your customers's problems are you solving and why will he work with you rather than with a competitor?

 
Client perspective

RELATIONSHIPS

   face-to-face
   online customer
   feeding communities

What type of relationship does your customer expect you to establish and maintain with him?

DISTRIBUTION & ACQUISITION CHANNELS

   website
   partner websites

Through which means does your customer want to be reached and addressed by you?

CUSTOMERS

   general public
   research institutes
   partners
   funders

Who are your customers? what are your customers’ needs, desires and ambitions?

 

COST STRUCTURE

   acquistion costs
   digitizing costs
   collection management
   preservation management

What is the cost structure of your business model and is it in harmony with the core idea of your business model?

Financial perspective
 

REVENUE STREAMS / PRICING

   branding
   public appreciation
   network expansion

What value are your customers really willing to pay for and how will they pay for it?

 
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Thanks for your comments, sorry for my late respons.

You are right this model is based on a public funded organisation. Therefore the revenue streams can be seen as funds from the local, regional or national government.


I can imagine new posibilities for revenues may develop but I'm a little anxious to use this as basis for creating the value of sustainable access to digital hertige material. In my opion this should be a public responsiblity.

It would be interesting to think about new posibilities with the key resources we need for preservation management and create new revenue streams this way for new and beter services.

You are right about the Relationships, I haven't spent a lot of thought on this area yet.

I'm very interested in working together with you on this, perhaps it's interesting to work on a more general model for digital preservation?

Gravatar ennomeijers
7 months ago
Good start. I like the concept of preservation mgmt.
I don't understand the revenue streams - where does the money come from?

Relationships could be created in an Amazon like way: People who liked this content also viewed...

Perhaps you could make money by providing low-resolution material for free but high-res comes at a cost. Or maybe content is free to access for a year after being posted, then comes at a cost.

IT this a model for a public funded organisation? Perhaps prices have to be limited to a cost recovery basis rather than making a profit.

I'm working on something similar for a government spatial information catalogue - happy to collaborate.
Gravatar earth2gonzo
8 months ago
Gravatar ennomeijers

This is just a very early attempt to relate the costs of preserving digital heritage collections to the revenu streams it could bring.
Comments and/or ideas are more than welcome!

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Company: Zeeuwse Bibliotheek
Industry: Government
Last Updated: 2009-12-09
Tags: collections heritage preservation