An important objective of CARARE is defining a sustainable business model to achieve a viable and extensible aggregation service after the end of the project funding. The project will investigate the economic and organisational aspects of sustainability in the context of parallel developments of regional, national and domain aggregators and the long-term development of a Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, and will:

• Investigate and define business models that allow for the provision of long-term services and long-term aggregation of content to Europeana.
• Identify the conditions that will enable content providers to participate on an affordable, technically robust basis that is capable of adapting to meet new user needs and technological developments.
• Establish exploitation plans for sustainability after project funding ends.

This report, which was prepared by the Archaeology Data Service, represents the first step in fulfilling the objective of defining a sustainable business model. It provides a review of a broad range of funding models currently adopted by cultural heritage organisations with a role in generating, curating and disseminating our digital cultural heritage, and an analysis of the sustainability issues in broader context of digital curation and access to heritage data. The report covers models used for the provision of regional and national aggregation services, aggregation services for the library, archive and museum domains, and the developing Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH).

To access a copy of the report see: http://www.carare.eu/eng/Resources/Review-and-Analysis-of-Sustainability-of-Digital-Curation-and-Access-to-Digital-Heritage

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