Principles for Projecting Costs
Calculate costs across entire life cycle of the electronic records or system
Distribute burden of costs across all involved parties, as appropriate
Programmatic costs associated with management of electronic records must be overt, line items on recordkeepers’ and archives’ budgets. Do not rely on soft funding for essential activities
Look for revenue-generating, entrepreneurial uses for electronic records
Capture consistent, comparable, accurate evaluative and programmatic data that can be used as benchmarks