Digital BW, The Print

Wow! This is great. Thank you very, very much. 

--- lou4photo <lmeluso@...> wrote:

> Barry:
> I see you are getting some good responses to your question. Let me 
> just chime in having worked on museum type projects for the last 
> twenty years. If, indeed, your client is a cultural institution, 
> justifications are a way of life.  With money in the non-profit 
> sector always being tight, there is nothing that better than to point 
> to museum-type standards agencies to help support your program. One 
> such group is the National Initiative for a Network of Cultural 
> Heritage (NINCH).  Their published guidelines " The NINCH Guide to 
> Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of 
> CulturaL Heritage Materials" is a great tool. Section six deals with 
> the question you asked. I think you may want to explore this whole 
> document. This resource is found here:
> http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/
> 
> Another cost analysis tool for these large scale projects is offered 
> by the Mellon Foundation found here:
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> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/toc.html
> 
> This information has been around awhile but the costing models may 
> give you, and your client, more of an idea about the depth of these 
> type projects.
> Best of Luck,
> Lou Meluso
> The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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