2008/10/2 Christophe Henner christophe.henner@gmail.com:
2008/10/2 Christophe Henner christophe.henner@gmail.com:
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_DigitisationAndTranscriptionOfNewspapers.pdf
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...