[OpenGLAM] cost benefit analysis of open digital content

Mon Oct 7 22:17:05 UTC 2013

I think this conversation comes up once every few months :)

I know of an archives that brings in enough money from images they can fund
a part time position in their digitization department. In the US, a part
time position would maybe be about $20,000ish.

I pinky swore to never say what archives that is, but, I was pretty
surprised to hear that. This specific archives does have a very high demand
collection of modern and historic figures, so at the same time...no
surprise. Sadly, many of those images are also public domain - you can
download low res from their website, but, high res you've got to pay the
price.

-Sarah
who could go on and on and on about this all day long.

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee <proffitm at oclc.org> wrote:

> Here's another one in the "no one gets rich" category, although probably
> not exactly what you are looking for.
>
> Erway, Ricky. 2008. Seeking Sustainability. Report produced by OCLC
> Programs and Research
>
> http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2008/2008-03.pdf
>
> You might also contact Simon Tanner and see if his research has been
> updated at all. I believe he still tracks this area.
>
> Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
> OCLC Research
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> open-glam-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of David Farneth
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> Subject: Re: [OpenGLAM] cost benefit analysis of open digital content
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> I look forward to seeing if anyone can point to some current cost analysis.
>
> This older article by Ken Hamma provides some historical context.  See,
> especially, footnote 6.
> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/hamma/11hamma.html#!
>
> David
>
>
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> >>> "Harkema, Craig" <craig.harkema at usask.ca> 10/7/2013 1:27 PM >>>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm wondering if any of you have come across anything regarding the cost
> benefit of opening up digital content? In other words, I'm curious about
> just how much organization make off of charging for high res files, for
> example, versus the accounting, general overhead, rescanning, and so forth
> that is required? Which is not to mention any of the barriers to use
> charging fees such as this imposes.
>
> Craig
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