Call for Participation: Economic Models in Cloud Records Storage Decision-Making Survey

December 11, 2015

We are asking for your help in completing a short survey exploring the use, or not, of economic models in making decisions about storing records in the cloud, and identifying case examples that illustrate the role of such models in the decision-making process. It should take less than 20 minutes and does not ask for organisational or personal identifiers unless you are willing to take part in a short follow-up interview to provide a case example.

The results will be made freely available in 2016 and will enable organisations to learn what economic models are being used to determine the cost of using cloud services for records storage as well as how and why they are used.

Survey link: https://survey.ubc.ca/surveys/37-777ce1518b6e37991d46f81fd01/cloud-services-for-records-storage/

The survey is open until Thursday 24 December 2015. Please do pass the link to your contacts who can help us to understand how economic models are used in cloud storage decision-making by our profession.

The research is part of the InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) Trust project exploring issues concerning digital records and data entrusted to the Internet (https://interparestrust.org/).

Thank you in advance for giving us your time.

Dr Julie McLeod
Professor in Records Management
Northumbria University, UK
julie.mcleod@northumbria.ac.uk

Ms Brianna Gormly
University of British Columbia, Canada
brianna.gormly@alumni.ubc.ca