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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

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