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From: James Moses <primarydat(a)aol.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM
Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Library & Museum
Digitization Projects, ISBN 157440-158-0. The nearly 200 page report looks
closely at how academic, public and special libraries and museums are
digitizing special and other collections. The study is based on detailed
data on costs, equipment use, staffing, cataloging, marketing, licensing
revenue and other facets of digitization projects from nearly 100 libraries
and museums in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, and
Australia. The study covers and presents data separately for digitizers of
photographs, film and video, music and audio, text and re-digitization of
existing digital mediums.
Just a few of the study’s many findings are that:
• Digitization budgets come largely through non-budgetary allocations. The
library or museum annual budget accounted for only a little over 35% of the
overall digitization budget.
• Prospects for digitization funding in the United States were much better
than prospects outside of the USA; about 28.6% of US survey participants
considered the outlook pretty good or excellent while only 5.88% of those
from other countries shared this optimism.
• The mean annual number of staff hours expended per institution on
digitization projects was 2,272 with a range of 0 to 24,000 (or about 12-13
full time employees spending all of their time on digitization projects).
• Only 3.45% of institutions sampled have outsourced rights,
permissions or
copyright management to any third party.
• Overall survey participants say that over the past three years they have
outsourced close to 27% of their overall digitization work.
• Close to 54% of the organizations sampled have some form of
digital asset
management software and an additional 8.3% share a system with another
department or division of their institution.
• 14.61% used the servers of some kind of third party service;
this was most
popular in the USA, where one sixth of respondents used a third party server
service for digital content storage.
• 16.05% of organizations surveyed license or rent any aspect of their
digital collection to any party.
• Digitizers whose primary medium was music and audio spent
56.25% of their
total digitization staff time on cataloging and metadata related issues.
• Data is also broken out by budget size, region, type of institution, and
other factors.
For further information view our website at
www.PrimaryResearch.com
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