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What's the best way to assess costs for digital libraries?

In 2014, Joyce Chapman, Assessment Coordinator for Duke Universities, developed a beta version of a Library Digitization Cost Calculator to assist organizations in estimating the costs for digitizing collections and initiate a conversation at the 2014 DLF Forum around cost assessment in digital libraries. In spring of 2014, the Cost Assessment working group of the DLF Assessment Interest Group was founded. This group was tasked with drafting [best practices and guidelines for the collection of time data for various digitization processes], which will be used to standardize collection of such data in the field as well as to guide data submissions to the Digital Cost Calculator. The guidelines and definitions are organized according to some of the typical stages of a library project:

Preparation of original materials
Image capture
Quality control
Descriptive metadata creation
Post-processing
Post-preparation

The guidelines include definitions for a total of 20 specific data fields within these six areas, ranging from fastener removal to condition review and alignment/rotation of images.

In August 2015, the group produced wire frames showing the planned interface and functionality of the Digitization Cost Calculator 2.0, as well as wireframes of how results would appear.

In September, the group released a call for data submissions using the new guidelines and a new data submission form. The Digitization Cost Calculator 2.0 cannot be built until at least one set of data has been contributed in each of the 20 categories listed in the guidelines.

If you are interested in helping us develop best practices and guidelines for assessing costs of digital libraries, please join our Digital Library Assessment Google Group and speak up!

See the cost assessment bibliography produced by the Cost Assessment working group here:

Cost Assessment Bibliography

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-Last year, Joyce Chapman, Assessment Coordinator for Duke Universities, developed a beta version of a [http://statelibrarync.org/plstats/digitization_calculator.php Library Digitization Cost Calculator] to assist organizations in estimating the costs for digitizing collections.  We would be grateful for suggestions for improvement and especially data from your institution's experiences with digitization, so that Joyce can incorporate it into the cost estimation tool.
+In 2014, Joyce Chapman, Assessment Coordinator for Duke Universities, developed a beta version of a [http://statelibrarync.org/plstats/digitization_calculator.php Library Digitization Cost Calculator] to assist organizations in estimating the costs for digitizing collections and initiate a conversation at the 2014 DLF Forum around cost assessment in digital libraries. In spring of 2014, the Cost Assessment working group of the DLF Assessment Interest Group was founded. This group was tasked with drafting [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/17jTJmCzKsa83BMdlgKj239Shqcbglq7I4EfxJIWWDQo/edit best practices and guidelines for the collection of time data for various digitization processes]], which will be used to standardize collection of such data in the field as well as to guide data submissions to the Digital Cost Calculator. The guidelines and definitions are organized according to some of the typical stages of a library project:
-There are many potential areas for measuring costs:
+* Preparation of original materials
-* Hardware and software
+* Image capture
-* Technical support
+* Quality control
-* Overhead
+* Descriptive metadata creation
-* Content arrangement and description
+* Post-processing
-* Content preparation
+* Post-preparation
-* Metadata creation
-* Digitization, which can vary by:
-** type and fragility of content
-** type of capture mechanism
-** expertise of staff
-** amount of quality control measures implemented
-* Upload processes
-* Web services support and development
-* Cross-departmental communications
-* Outreach
-To say nothing of the costs of preservation!
+The guidelines include definitions for a total of 20 specific data fields within these six areas, ranging from fastener removal to condition review and alignment/rotation of images.
+In August 2015, the group produced [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4veUYJxzAmSfmpMSE1zVTIxYmtzb1pFeWtiZzNFREp3bFJaYW5rYkJTV1RGWGY4Mm05LWc wire frames] showing the planned interface and functionality of the Digitization Cost Calculator 2.0, as well as [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4veUYJxzAmSfmpMSE1zVTIxYmtzb1pFeWtiZzNFREp3bFJaYW5rYkJTV1RGWGY4Mm05LWc wireframes of how results would appear].
+In September, the group released a [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s1bHzkB3SSyufaoZS0JZhbVQ1AZfRgUsZ0iOcKZ3Q0k/edit call for data submissions] using the new guidelines and a new [https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3OtqSEAbpl2QDl3 data submission form]. The Digitization Cost Calculator 2.0 cannot be built until at least one set of data has been contributed in each of the 20 categories listed in the guidelines.
 If you are interested in helping us develop best practices and guidelines for assessing costs of digital libraries, please join our
-[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/digital-library-assessment Digital Library Assessment Google Group] and speak up!  :-)
+[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/digital-library-assessment Digital Library Assessment Google Group] and speak up!
-Joyce is now heading up a small task force that we hope will have progress to share at the next [http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/ DLF Forum]!
+See the cost assessment bibliography produced by the Cost Assessment working group here:
 * [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yFWNWonZXHEFagI0A4ujeCl6U7SriJbfmqAgFGLA-Os/edit?usp=sharing Cost Assessment Bibliography]