The National library and the University library at UiO is not the same.
Some of the newspapers in Norway are digitizing the old archives, and I
could check out the cost tomorrow. As I recall they had a discussion,
and I think they both discussed digitizing from microfilm and from real
scans. Parts of one of those collections already existed on microfilm.
Interesting enough, several newspapers are digitizing their collections.
John
Andrew Gray skrev:
2008/10/2 Christophe Henner
<christophe.henner(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/10/2 Christophe Henner
<christophe.henner(a)gmail.com>om>:
Y aurait-il, selon vous, un moyen d'estimer
le cout de numérisation
d'une telle collection ?
This was intended to the French Kabaal, sorry.
And for the one who doesn't understand French, I was asking if there
was anyway to estimate the cost of the digitization of those
newspaper.
The Colorado State Library gives a rough estimate of $1.25 per page
plus overheads (overall indexing, etc)
http://www.oclc.org/news/events/presentations/2006/microfilm_june2006.ppt
A South Dakota project likewise suggests ~$2
http://library.sd.gov/sdnewspaperdigitization/history.htm
Estimates are a bit fuzzy, because most digitisation is not done
direct from newspapers (which are bulky and not routinely scanned) but
from microfilm, which there's a much better-understood workflow to
handle and which imposes a lot less physical overhead.
An Irish study gives the neat - but high! - estimate that to digitise
two years worth of a single newspaper title would take about one year
and ten staff at a cost of ~300,000 EUR, of which 10% would be capital
investment. I suspect with software automation this could be heavily
reduced.
www.askaboutireland.ie/resources/OCR_DigitisationAndTranscriptionOfNewspape…
Cornell quote $5-10,000 for a single year of a daily newspaper (albeit
one that only printed during academic terms, so say $10-15,000 for a
"real" daily)
http://newspapers.library.cornell.edu/costs.html
On a more upbeat note, doing the research for this I found reference
to a pan-Scandinavian newspaper digitisation program called "Tiden" -
"...a collaborative project of the Helsinki University Library, the
National Library of Sweden, Statsbiblioteket - the Danish State and
University Library in Aarhus, and the National Library of Norway for
the digitisation of newspapers on microfilm" - but I can't easily find
any more details on it, and the website given has vanished. I suspect
this may be the project that means no-one wants to digitise this
particular collection...