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Digitization costs per image



We are starting a digitization project using outside contractors.  In a nutshell the project entails scanning of photographic prints predominantly black and white, but also some color, sizes varying from 1" x 2" to 9" x 12"; saving the images to CD, and entering the metadata in an Oracle database.  The database will be accessible from a networked server.  The images will be accessible from a CD jukebox connected to the networked server.  The images will be used for internal research purposes.

I am at the point of comparing costs per image from contractors.  I have consulted various sources for cost estimates including Handbook for Digital Projects:  A Management Tool for Preservation and Access from the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDC), the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), and Introduction to Imaging by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant.  I have also attended the School for Scanning: Preservation and Access in a Digital World present by the NEDC.  I wanted to hear from those of you on the list who've also attempted projects of this scope.

If you are or have been involved in a photograph digitization project, could you please share your costs per image.  If you do not have this type of information, do you know where I might find it?

Lonna McKinley
Museum Archivist
United States Air Force Museum/MUA
2601 E Street
Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7609
(937) 255-4644 x. 734     DSN:  785-4644 x. 734
Fax:  (937) 255-9204       DSN:  785-9204
Email:  lonna.mckinley@WPAFB.AF.MIL

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