"OCLC Researcher Brian Lavoie publishes analysis of the incentives for digital preservation.
Appropriate incentives are fundamental to the development of economically sustainable digital preservation activities. This white paper (PDF:747K/51pp.) identifies the key decision-making roles in the digital preservation process, characterizes a core set of organizational models under which decision-makers might undertake digital preservation, and examines the implications of these models for the incentives to preserve digital materials. (Posted 4 April 2003)"
April 7, 2003: The white paper title is The Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials: Roles, Scenarios, and Economic Decision-Making (April 2003). OCLC Research announcement from its Web site (http://www.oclc.org/research/) following an e-mail sent to me by an OCLC employee advising me of this publication.
