The cost calculator is an online project for calculating the cost of services. It's originally designed for helping researcher for estimating the cost of managing data. The user can calculate the cost of the data life cycle directly from the interface.
Categories, Providers, Cost can be easily updated by just changing the data.js so it can be adapted for your own institution.
The structure is highly modular and can be extended for different projects. All the information are stored on javascript and the system only uses javascript libraries making really easy to install and update.
You don't need a specific webserver (but you can use one), just use your github repo and create a pages link your cost calculator will be accessible
For local use, you need a mini web server such as https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server
The documentation of the project explains how to install it and configure it. See Docs
- All the engine is stored in the js folder
- index.html : main index for production
- docs contains the documentation for changing the database of provider or the engine itself.
- index-dev.html : Index file for development only
The project is hosted on Zenodo :
The citation information are in the CITATION file and CODEMETA.json.
This project is release under the GNU GPLv3 license, see LICENSE.
It's a work of the Research Data Management Team at EPFL Library in Switzerland.