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NINCH Symposium on the Price of
Digitization
This promises to be a very good event with some superb speakers;
I've simply reproduced the NINCH announcement below. The NINCH
Guide to Good Practice mentioned in the symposium description is a
valuable resource as well.
Clifford Lynch
Director CNI
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
March 7, 2003
NINCH SYMPOSIUM
The
Price of Digitization:
New Cost
Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions
http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html
* Tuesday, April 8, 2003 *
New York Public
Library
Trustees Room, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City
A Digitization
Symposium Presented by the
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
and
Innodata
Co-sponsored by the New York
Public Library
and New York University
Free to the Public:
Registration Required
http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.register.html
* * * *
How does an institution begin to cost a
digitization project? What are the elements to be included? Are there
available models that can assist? What are the budgetary and
structural ramifications for an institution when it moves from
producing digitization projects to implementing a digitization program
that is core to the future of the organization and its offerings to
its public? When and how does an institution figure out how and what
to charge for its digital resources?
These are some of the questions to be answered in a free, one-day
symposium organized by NINCH in collaboration with Innodata, a NINCH
Corporate Council Member.
The meeting will feature a keynote address
by Donald Waters, Program Officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
which has encouraged the development of economic models of digital
sustainability that include cost and charging models. A panel of
speakers, representing commercial vendors and nonprofit projects will
report on how costs are determined in text, image digitization
and scholarly publishing projects.
How does digital preservation fit into
this? A panel will examine the cost considerations of various digital
preservation strategies.
These panels will be followed by a
discussion of the institutional changes that are being wrought as
digitization projects are gathered into sustainable programs that are
becoming core to the organization.
Participants also will hear from those who have been engaged in
determining pricing strategies for distributing digital resources in
various markets.
Confirmed speakers include:
* Howard Besser, New York University
* Maria Bonn, Making of America, University
of Michigan
* Stephen Chapman, Harvard
University
* Nancy Harms, Luna Imaging
* Heike Kordish, New York Public Library
* Tom Moritz, American Museum of Natural
History
* Dan Pence, Systems Integration
Group
* Steven Puglia, National Archives
and Records Administration
* Jane Sledge, National Museum of the
American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
* Donald Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
* Eli Willner, Innodata
* Kate Wittenberg, Electronic Publishing Initiative, Columbia
University
This symposium has been organized partly in
support of the First Edition of the "NINCH Guide to Good Practice
in the Digital Representation & Management of Cultural Heritage
Materials," (http://www.ninch.org/guide) and may be the first in
a series of symposia on some of the key practical digitization issues
faced by cultural and educational organizations.
"The Price of Digitization" should prove particularly useful
in further developing and updating the information and advice given in
the NINCH Guide's sections on cost models and workflow - see the
Guide's chapter on "Project Planning"
(http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/II/).
The meeting is free but registration is required. Please register at
http://www.ninch/forum/price.register.html
--
David L. Green, Ph.D.
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
http://www.ninch.org
david@ninch.org
tel:
202.296.5346
fax: 202.872.0886
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