Message-Id: <mailto:199510271756.MAA29894@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 10:53:43 -0800 From: John Blunden <mailto:blunden@TID380.LLNL.GOV> Subject: Re: 5000 photos ’WWW To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
WaltWe at LLNL 's Technical Information Dept. are just beginning to look into this kind of archiving project also. A question: what resolutions are you using for your Photo CD images? I assume you are using the 35mm scanner to get scans at that price and not the 'Pro" scanner. Also, it looks like you are then converting the .PCD images into .GIF or JPEG? Would you elaborate?
John
>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
John Blunden mailto:blunden2@llnl.gov