diglib: Fwd: Saskia notes

[Faye Chadwell <chadwelf@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

DCC and AAA librarians,
At this time we are licensed and poised to purchase digital images from 
Saskia either individually or in small collections--whatever our budget 
will bear.  Here are some brief notes I took during a very recent 
conversation I had with Renate at Saskia.  I was inquiring about what it 
would take to purchase the whole enchilada from Saskia.

> Saskia has about 30,443 images in Scholar's Resource right now.  This 
> includes 911 about China recently added.  Renate projects that they will 
> likely be adding about 1500 into the archive every year.  Were we to move 
> on a purchase quickly, we would pay $6 per image for the jpegs.  This adds 
> up to $183k, but if we moved quickly (apparently the mantra for everyone 
> these days), we would get a 20 percent discount.  Add another $1 to get 
> the TIFF file.  If we didn't want TIFFs right away, then we could update 
> later.
> Saskia would deliver the images on a hard drive like Art on File will be 
> doing.  Or we could opt for DVDs--terribly impractical given the size of 
> the collection.  Renate said if we were using Luna (Insight) they could 
> deliver the images to Luna and then we could get them from Luna.  They'd 
> have explain this acquisitions method some more. And then of course, we 
> don't have Luna and I don't think we have any plans in the future to get 
> it. . .
Anyway, the images are licensed in perpetuity--that means we own them but 
we still have to abide by the terms of our agreement regarding how we use 
them, etc.  This info will be recorded in an ERM resource record with the 
appropriate licensing record attached..   ERM is III's new module for 
managing electronic (er.. digital) resources so we can keep up with all 
these terms and conditions..

> As I am sure AAA folks know, Saskia's photographer has a PhD in art 
> history from Columbia so the quality of the collection is high.  It would 
> be fantastic to get it all.
>
> Scholars Resource lists the sites or campus who already have site licenses 
> (like us for Saskia).  In Oregon , Saskia has sold to Reed, PSU and they 
> are working on a consortial deal for the three campuses of WSU.  I will 
> see about the interest in Orbis-Cascade because it could save money 
> perhaps. In a consortial deal, if a school has already spent $$, then 
> Saskia would prorate the purchase.
>
> Metadata or slide annotations, etc. could be delivered in any form to help 
> clients import the information.  Saskia has a data specialist whom they 
> would available to help with integration at no extra cost.
Questions???
Faye