The Value and Impact of the British Atmospheric Data Centre

TitleThe Value and Impact of the British Atmospheric Data Centre
Publication TypeReport
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsBeagrie, N., & Houghton J.
Date Published2013/09//
InstitutionJoint Information Systems Committee
CityBristol and London
Keywordssg_data_costs, sg_data_economics, sg_data_impact, sg_data_value
URLhttp://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5382/1/BADCReport_Final.pdf

Gap Area Study Type:

Purpose: 
Surveyed and analyzed perceptions of the value of the digital collections held by the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), and quantified the value and impact of those collections for BADC’s user community using a range of economic approaches; investigated the extension of the methodology used in Beagrie et al. 2012 and Beagrie and Houghton 2013a to the BADC. Note: The results of Beagrie et al. 2012, Beagrie and Houghton 2013a and Beagrie and Houghton 2013b were summarized and collated in Beagrie and Houghton 2014.
Method: 
Similar to Beagrie et al. 2012 and Beagrie and Houghton 2013, methods included a combination of literature and documentation review, review of reports from BADC, 13 interviews of BADC users and depositors, and two online surveys, one of BADC data depositors and one of BADC users. Note: This study and the similar study of the Archaeology Data Service (Node 33) both use the same value metrics framework