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This is a novel approach to managing costs in digital preservation, one that takes advantage of an object-centric approach developed by means of self-preserving digital objects whereby the objects manage their preservation not only by maximizing the chances of avoiding obsolescence but also doing it at a minimum cost. To accomplish this, we assign a budget that the objects manage to achieve the necessary preservation services at a given cost. Several strategies apply, such as maximal preservation service at all costs or burn low even if the preservation is not perfect. We explore optimizing the budget of self-preserving digital objects through micro-negotiations of objects and services, expecting accurate balance of costs and quality of preservation. Specifically, in negotiation, we will explore the price-based algorithms that are the electronic auctions, notably the combinatorial and multi-unit auctions. We compare the expected lifetime of digital objects with the two electronic auction algorithms with the aim of deciding in what conditions these algorithms apply and deliver good results. In all, this work, exploratory in nature, studies a bottom-up approach of cost management in digital preservation, contrary to the prevailing top-down approach of the state of the art, using e-auctions.
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This research is partly funded by the TIN2013-48040-R (QWAVES) Nuevos métodos de automatización de la búsqueda social basados en waves de preguntas, the IPT20120482430000 (MIDPOINT) Nuevos enfoques de preservación digital con mejor gestión de costes que garantizan su sostenibilidad, and VISUAL AD Uso de la Red Social para Monetizar el Contenido Visual, RTC-2014-2566-7 and GEPID Gamificación en la Preservación Digital desplegada sobre las Redes Sociales, RTC-2014-2576-7, the EU DURAFILE num. 605356, FP7-SME-2013, BSG-SME (Research for SMEs) Innovative Digital Preservation using Social Search in Agent Environments, as well as the AGAUR 2012 FI_B00927 awarded to José Antonio Olvera and the grup de recerca consolidat CSI-ref. 2014 SGR 1469.
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Olvera, J.A., Carrillo, P.N., de la Rosa, J.L. (2015). Evaluating Auction Mechanisms for the Preservation of Cost-Aware Digital Objects Under Constrained Digital Preservation Budgets. In: Kapidakis, S., Mazurek, C., Werla, M. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_29
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