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Exploring the charging models for digital cultural heritage resources
Does your library, museum or archive make a charge for providing either a
photographic print or digital copy of photographs, 35mm slides or other
photographic materials etc? Do you know of one that does?
HEDS seeks information about any charging practice in place for the sale of
analogue and/or digital versions of cultural resources. In particular what
prices are charged for the photographic print and what charges are made for
providing a digital file (whatever format).
The information we seek at this time is:
- Name of service/organisation that charges:____________________
- Website/URL or other contact details for charging service:
____________________
- What sort of items do they charge for (photo prints, digital files etc)?:
__________________
- Are the charging structures available for HEDS to access?:
_______________________
HEDS is carrying out an extensive survey and investigation on behalf of the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and would like to hear from anyone with
information that may assist this survey.
Many thanks in advance for your assistance.
Simon Tanner
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Background Information on the study:
Exploring the charging models for digital cultural heritage
To explore the charging models for digital content of cultural institutions
in the UK and Europe the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant to
the Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS).
HEDS will:
· study how pricing structures are determined for delivering digital
versions of rare or unique items in libraries, museums, archives and
similar public institutions
· investigate how these digital pricing structures compare to those
used for the delivery of the same or similar resources in analogue form.
· explore the thresholds that determine the point at which an
organization charges for the sale of content and other rights to their
digital holdings and the reasons given for such charges.
To discover the underlying motivation driving charging and rights policies,
HEDS will use relative and comparative cost modeling with a framework of
opinion-based research.
This work will help the community to compare and assess costs for
delivering digital content against a realistic model.
HEDS provides consultancy and production services for digitisation and
digital library development to all sectors of education, libraries, museums
and other non-profit organizations.
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Simon Tanner
Senior Digitisation Consultant (HEDS)
Higher Education Digitisation Service
University of Hertfordshire
Phone: +44 (0) 1707 286078
Fax: +44 (0) 1707 286079
Web: http://heds.herts.ac.uk
METAe Project: http://heds.herts.ac.uk/projects/projectsE.html
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