Hello Jessica,

I was reading your question and thought I would give some simple feedback.
If the students are already trained to do the work, then you should be able
to get about 50 or more pages per week, per person. In my process or
converting finding aids into EAD, I produced about 100 or more pages in a
months time, but I was working a full 40 hr week. And all 100 pages could be
a combination of 2-3 different finding aids. Also, take into consideration
the steps involved in the conversion, OCR and converting the pages into
editable format, for the most part , was the most time consuming between the
beginning and the finished product. I hope this was somewhat helpful

God Bless,
sincerely,
Dietra Stanley,
Processing Ast. V
NC Dept. of Cultural Resources
Archives & History-IT Branch
109 E. Jones Street
Raleigh, NC, 27601
919-807-7322
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: EAD grant writing question


> Hello --
>
> We're embarking on our first EAD retrospective conversion grant and we're
> having some trouble coming up with figures for our budget. If any of your
> institutions have had some experience with EAD retrospective conversion
> budgets, we would really appreciate your response to a couple of
questions.
>
> 1. What is a reasonable number of pages two trained (20 hr/wk) students
> could convert in a year's time?
>
> 2. If we are calculating cost per page in our budget -- how much should we
> say each page is worth (i.e. this granting organization gives $1.00 per
> MARC record and $10.00 for original cataloging)
>
> I realize that these questions do not take into consideration such
> variables as reprocessing and non-electronic conversions, but we need some
> statistics to create a foundation for our calculations.
>
> Thank you all for your help in advance,
>
> Jessica Tanny
>
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