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THE COST OF DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data by Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/imaging/1998mellon/toc.html ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION PROJECT MUSEUM EDUCATIONAL SITE LICENSING PROJECT Studying the Economics of Network Access to Visual Information FINAL REPORT July, 1998 PDF files require the free Acrobat Reader program. You can download it here.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY	HTML	PDF
Credits & Acknowledgements	HTML	PDF
Part I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND— DISTRIBUTION COST CENTER MODELS: Overview	HTML	PDF
Chapter 1: Background (Theory & Methods)	HTML	PDF
Part II. DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION UNDER MESL: Overview	HTML	PDF
Chapter 2: The Cost of Creating Digital Images and Metadata by Museums	HTML	PDF
Chapter 3: The Cost of Deploying Digital Images by Universities	HTML	PDF
Part III. EXISTING ANALOG DISTRIBUTION METHODS: Overview	HTML	PDF
Chapter 4: The Cost of Distributing Analog Images by University Slide Libraries	HTML	PDF
Chapter 5: The Patterns of Slide Library Circulation: A Study	HTML	PDF
Part IV. FACULTY USERS: Overview	HTML	PDF
Chapter 6: Faculty Perspectives on Teaching with Digital Images	HTML	PDF
Part V. CONCLUSION: Overview	HTML	PDF
Chapter 7: The MESL Experience versus Slide Libraries: Comparison and Analysis	HTML	PDF
APPENDICES & BIBLIOGRAPHY
Appendix 2A—About the Museums	HTML	PDF version of all Appendices & Bibliography
Appendix 2B—Content Selection	HTML
Appendix 2C—Image Preparation	HTML
Appendix 2D—Data Preparation	HTML
Appendix 2E—MESL Data Dictionary, Index of Field Names	HTML
Appendix 3A—University Profiles	HTML
Appendix 3B—Range of Costs and Hours by Cost Center	HTML
Appendix 3C—Image Preparation	HTML
Appendix 3D—Structured Data Preparation	HTML
Appendix 3E—Unstructured Data Preparation	HTML
Appendix 3F—Functionality	HTML
Appendix 3G—Security	HTML
Appendix 3H—Log Files	HTML
Appendix 3H—Log Files	HTML
Appendix 3I—End User	HTML
Appendix 4A—Questionnaire for Slide Libraries	HTML
Appendix 5A—Profiles of the Slide Libraries	HTML
Appendix 5B—Data and Analysis	HTML
Appendix 5C—Breakdown of Week Numbers by Date	HTML
Appendix 6A—Focus Group Questions	HTML
Appendix 6B—Pre-Focus Group Questionnaire	HTML
Appendix 6C—Focus Group Participants: Questionnaire Responses	HTML
Bibliography	HTML
The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data By Howard Besser & Robert Yamashita http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/imaging/1998mellon/toc.html (originally at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon)

THE COST OF DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data

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THE COST OF DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION
The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data