1. Funding bodies look for evidence of impact, use, and dissemination when evaluating digitization projects, as well as strong leadership, consideration of risks, and standards-compliant workflows. 2. Hidden costs in digitization projects often come from issues like licensing, copyright clearance, metadata creation and manipulation, and quality control, which can take up more time and resources than anticipated. 3. Developing partnerships, economies of scale, good resource discovery, and avoiding isolated resources can help digitization projects maximize value and impact.

1. Hidden Costs and Hidden Hours: A Funder’s Perspective on Digitisation Cilip Executive Briefing 26th March 2009 Alastair Dunning, JISC Programme Manager a.dunning @AT@ jisc.ac.uk 0203 006 6065 http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/

10. Approximate figures – end of projects reports will finalise numbers Freeze Frame Polar Images British Cartoon Archive John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera East London Theatre Archive Mixture of photos, negatives, glass plates Prints & sketches of newspaper cartoons in various media Huge range or textual and printed material, playbills to cigarette cards Mainly theatre posters £523,490 – project cost £946,770 £1.764m £628,987 c.20,000 images c.15,000 images c.65,000 images c.15,000 images Largely done in-house Cost included significant metadata & hardware costs Mixed public private investment Many posters in fragile state

11. But each project had different scope so differences are to be expected!

13. This is a subjective approximation of project costs and time spent on the East London Theatre Archive Project

14. This is a subjective approximation of project costs and time spent on phase 2 of the Archival Sound Recordings Project