[Dspace-general] Time and cost per item in a repository

[Christy R Crowley]

Basically, this article says it takes about 10 minutes to 
put archive a paper with metadata.

Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2005) Keystroke Economy: A
     Study of the Time and Effort Involved in 
Self-Archiving.
     http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/
     ABSTRACT: A common objection to self-archiving is 
that it is an
     extra task that puts an unnecessary burden on each 
researcher. In
     particular, the need to enter the extra bibliographic 
metadata
     demanded by repositories for accurate searching and 
identification
     is presumed to be a particularly onerous task. This 
paper describes a
     preliminary study on two months of submissions for a 
mature repository
     and concludes that the amount of time spent entering 
metadata would
     be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly 
active researcher.




On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:31:59 -0400
  Danianne Mizzy <danianne at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Please excuse cross posting. We are trying to pose this 
>question to the IR community without regard to platform.
> 
> Does anybody have any statistics they'd be willing to 
>share regarding
> time or cost per item made available in an institutional 
>repository?
> 
> Specifically, how long does it take in total to upload a 
>document, including time to:
> 
>    * determine if a work is eligible in the first place 
>(i.e.,
>      investigating publisher's copyright policy)
>    * acquire the full-text (postprints from faculty or 
>publisher PDF
>      version)
>    * uploading of metadata and document(s) itself
>    * any review done before making it fully public on 
>the repository
>    * other steps? 
> 
> Then any cost figures associated with this whole 
>process.
> 
> Any insights appreciated!
> 
> Danianne Mizzy
> 
> Asst. Head, Engineering Library University of 
>Pennsylvania
> 217 Towne Building
> danianne at seas.upenn.edu
> (215) 898-5700
> 

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