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B R E A K I N G D O W N TH E CO S T S

Breaking down the Costs — what are your digitization projects really costing? Dreanna Belden dreanna.belden@unt.edu July 10, 2009. B R E A K I N G D O W N TH E CO S T S. h. h t t p : / / t e x a s h i s t o r y . u n t . e d u /.

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  1. Breaking down the Costs — what are your digitization projects really costing? Dreanna Belden dreanna.belden@unt.edu July 10, 2009 BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h h t t p : / / t e x a s h i s t o r y . u n t . e d u /

  2. what’s your philosophy? • target vs. neiman’s approach • perfection ≠usefulness • perceived value • access = gold standard BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h Legacies, Fall 2007

  3. preciousizing, and issues thereof. . . • how valid are our determinations of low and high value of collections? what constitutes significance, and to whom? • who is the audience? (are you sure?) • uncorrected or corrected OCR? • full or select transcriptions? XML markup? • level of description? BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  4. a little history, or a tale of two collections . . . BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  5. a tale of two collections . . . BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  6. a tale of two collections . . . BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h * costs are based on the grant budget, and how real is that?

  7. a tale of two more collections . . . BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  8. a tale of two more collections . . . BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h * again, costs are based on the grant budget, and how accurate is it? ** based on our internal pricing model

  9. cost benefit analysis graph C O S T P E R P A G E V I E W BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h BENEFIT: USAGE Figured as the value of page cost per view over time. The benefit being measured is usage. (cost per digital image in cents/page views per year).

  10. so what is it really costing us? BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  11. inputs & statistics/year: • permanent staff salaries • student salaries • $$: grants, donors, sponsored projects • equipment costs • storage • overhead • digital files/objects BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  12. what do we have? BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS • UNT Libraries Digital Collections • 9,327 digital objects, over 740,000 digital images • Electronic Theses and Dissertations • Music Library • College of Music Recordings/Programs • Miniature Book Collections • CRS Reports • Federal News maps, WWI & WWII posters • FCC Record • A to Z with Gov Docs h

  13. what do we have? BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  14. BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS UNT Libraries Digital Collections . . . End-of-Term Harvest of the .gov domain h

  15. so what is it really costing us? BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  16. so what is it really costing us? BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  17. and how does that stack up to prices we have been charging? • photographs - $3.75 • negatives - $5.00 • glass plate negatives - $6.25 • large format maps, posters, panoramics, etc. • up to 30” - $33.50 • up to 50” - $47.50 • newspapers from microfilm - $1.03/page BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS h

  18. questions? BREAKINGDOWNTHE COSTS Dreanna Belden University of North Texas dreanna.belden@unt.edu

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