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Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: e58915
https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.6.e58915 (29 Sep 2020)
https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.6.e58915 (29 Sep 2020)
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Executive summary
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1. Introduction
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1.1 Project context
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1.2 Constraining the scope of the task
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2. Methodology for costing
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2.1 Components of costs
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2.2 Marginal costs
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2.3 Separating costs of digitisation
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2.3.1 Cost of establishing a digitisation facility
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2.3.2 Cost of digitising specimens
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2.3.3 Bandwidth, rate of digitisation and throughput
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2.3.4 Data preservation and access
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2.4 Types of collections
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2.5 Gathering and adjusting costs
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2.6 Implementation of the costbook template
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2.7 Data extraction from templates
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3. Results and analysis
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3.1 Establishment costs
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3.2 Fixed costs
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3.3 Variable costs
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3.4 Fixed versus variable costs
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3.5 Throughput
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3.6 Per Item Time
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3.7 Per Item Cost
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3.8 Size and method
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3.9 Transcription Costs
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4. Discussion
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5 Recommendations
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5.1 Expanding scope of gathered costs
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5.2 Other considerations
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5.2.1 Future development and maintenance for collecting new data
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5.2.2 Sharing best practice
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5.2.3 Treating costs separately from charges
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5.2.4 Depreciation and amortization
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6. Conclusions
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Acknowledgements
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