Archivio Storico:- ex Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Universita' di Bologna
Diapositiva di PowerPoint
Diapositiva di PowerPoint
In-house Digitisation or Outsource (2)?
Outsourcing pros:
Pay for cost of digitising sound documents only, not equipment or staffing
High production levels
On-site expertise
Less risk
Vendor absorbs costs of technology obsolescence, failure, downtime, etc.
Outsourcing cons:
Archive or library has less control over analogue to digital conversion process, quality control
Complex contractual process: sound, image and text specifications must be clearly defined up front, solutions to problems must be negotiated, communication must be open, and problems must be accommodated
Vendor many know more than client or may presume a level of understanding on behalf of library/museum/archives that they may not have
Lack of standards with which to negotiate services and to measure quality against
Originals must be transported, shipped, and then also handled by vendor staff
Possible inexperience of vendor with library/archival/museum/historical society communities
Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Vienna Phone: 043-1-4277-29500 Fax: 043-1-4277-9296 Email: wad@kfs.oeaw.ac.at http//www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at