[OpenGLAM] cost benefit analysis of open digital content

Tue Oct 8 12:33:03 UTC 2013

I'd second Merete's suggestion of Kelly's CLIR/Mellon Foundation report.
 It's key findings are pretty relevant to the discussion. And a +1 to the
SI Web & New Media wiki!

Good luck!
Ed

On Tuesday, October 8, 2013, Merete Sanderhoff wrote:

> Great resources shared here!
>
> Another interesting study is Kristin Kelley's survey from this year of 11
> American and British museums who have provided open access and have
> concrete evidence to share of how that affects things like revenue
> http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub157/pub157.pdf
>
> Michael Edson keeps an incredibly valuable list of references to this
> topic on the Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy wiki (which is where I
> found the Kelly report)
> http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Public+Domain+and+Image+Sales+References
>
> Cheers,
> Merete
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> Emne: Re: [OpenGLAM] cost benefit analysis of open digital content
>
> 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
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> Farneth
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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#!
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> David
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> >>> "Harkema, Craig" <craig.harkema at usask.ca <javascript:;>> 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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