Dear Linda,
Provided the images and video are released under an open licence you are of
course welcome to upload them to Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard>, the media
library sister to Wikipedia. Hosting cost to you would be zero. Depending
on the nature and size of the content we may even be able to introduce you
to a volunteer who can show you how to do the upload.
If your content includes images that can be used to illustrate or add video
to Wikipedia articles then we can achieve the "We need the online resource
to be live by June 2015 featuring one object from our collection with
multi-layered content linked to that object."
As for "We want to be able to add more objects each with their own
multi-layered content over time and expect the project to be live for at
least 5 years" Wikipedia has been live for over a decade now and is one of
the most popular sites on the Internet with close to 500 million unique
visitors per month. So we can be fairly sure of the project being live for
at least five years.
Good:Fast:Cheap - Providing you are happy to be open.
Happy to discuss further.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Organiser
Wikimedia UK
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On 14 April 2015 at 15:33, Tony Crockford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:29, Ellis, Linda <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > We need the online resource to be live by June 2015 featuring one object
> from our collection with multi-layered content linked to that object. We
> want to be able to add more objects each with their own multi-layered
> content over time and expect the project to be live for at least 5 years.
> >
> > We have a total of £15,000 (including VAT) put aside for this, but we
> wish to allocate £10,000 of this is to creating the multi-layered content.
> The proposed costings must include the graphic design of the website as
> well as the technical build and hosting for 3 years.
> >
> > Responses must be sent by email and received no later than 9am on Monday
> 27 April 2015.
>
> I will, no doubt, appear rude, [1] but you have declared a budget of £5000
> for three years hosting for multilayered content *plus* graphic design,
> *plus* build and only a month to get it all done in.
>
> It wouldn’t be unreasonable to spend £500 a year on hosting, but there’s
> no budget there for 5 years of updates and maintenance, and you’ve now
> only left £3,500 or (less than ten days work-time at average day-rates) to
> design and build. An agency that is VAT registered will have to look at an
> income of under £3000 to meet your including VAT constraint
>
> It’s possible to create a basic site for that sort of budget, but to fit
> ten days work (and I suspect it needs more than that) into four weeks
> starting early(?) May would need a fairly empty order book for any agency.
>
> I worry that for your budget and timescale you’ll probably get proposals
> that will make promises that the writer knows they can’t keep, which is a
> sad reflection on the industry.
>
> I don’t suppose a massaged off the shelf WordPress theme would do? With
> all your ‘multi-layered' content hosted on YouTube/Vimeo; SoundCloud and
> Codepen (for example). If your timescale was more realistic I might be
> making a more considered response, but I have no real spare capacity for
> the next six weeks at least.
>
> I hope you’ll take my comments as helpful and perhaps consider a more
> accommodating timescale or budget?
>
> As they say - Good:Fast:Cheap - pick two, but not all three…
>
> :o)
>
>
>
> [1] I was hoping for pragmatic, concerned and helpful...
>
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