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>>> David L. Green 3/7/03 4:25:17 PM >>>
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
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Washington DC 20036
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