Message-Id: <mailto:199510271532.KAA18835@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:07:42 -0400 From: "mailto:Walter_Gilbert@UMAIL.UMD.EDU--Maryland" <WALT@UMDD.bitnet> Subject: 5000 photos ’WWW To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
In response to Sue Hiott's query: Can I put 5000 photos on the WWW for $20,000. Answer: yes. Depending on what you already have in place at Clemson, you should be able to make 5,000 images available on the Web for $20,000.I assume that this money doesn't have to pay for partial salaries of existing staff (otherwise it's gone while you are still in the thinking stage).
You should be able to digitize the images for about $1 each: $0.50 for student labor at a light table and buying film, and $0.50 each to put them on Kodak PhotoCD (that's what we pay thru Kodak's Qualux or whatever they are called this week). That's $5000 and 50 CDs.
I assume you have a Web server. A typical .GIF (good for B&W) or JPEG image will be about 100K bytes (being conservative on the large side). Therefore, you will need about 500MB of disk space, no big deal today ($200 or so if you had to buy part of an N-GB drive).
Assume about 2 minutes each to copy, crop, and minimally edit each image--say 150 hours of student time times $6/hr: $1000.
Now someone has to come up with Web pages. This is the hard part because someone has to write all the descriptive text for each image. This is usually an "expensive" person. Give them $2 each: $10,000.
This leaves you with a few thousand for things I didn't anticipate.
It can be done. Walt
Walter Gilbert, Asst. Dir. mailto:Walter_Gilbert@umail.umd.edu Computer Science Center Manager: Teaching Technologies University of Maryland at College Park 20742-2411 (301)405-6727