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Selective archiving of web resources : a study of processing costs

The purpose of the study was to assess costs in the National and University Library of Croatia of processing Croatian web resources and maintenance and development of the service, and to analyse the present organization and workflow of their processing and propose improvements. Methodology: The assessment period was two months during which the members of staff involved minutely monitored their tasks. The results were compared to the same exercise reported by the National Library of Australia and processing costs of cataloguing Croatian print publications. Findings: Less time spent on Identification and selection and Publishers contact on the part of the Croatian National Library compared to the Australian one ; almost a double time spent on Gathering, quality assurance, and archiving instances in the Australian case than in the Croatian one ; practically the same time spent on cataloguing in both cases ; compared to cataloguing of print publications, significantly less time spent on the print ones. Average time per task per type of resource processed shows that only in cataloguing pdf files take more time than HTML/web files, while the average sum of all four tasks (identification, selection, cataloguing and archiving) shows that HTML/web files require more time for processing than pdf ones. The bottom-up analysis of processing web resources shows that a balanced description of tasks and their distribution over staff members was established, and that the present workflow meets the requirements of efficient processing of web resources. Practical implications: High percentage of time used for archiving shows that further training of the cataloguing staff or employment of staff with technical skills is needed ; high percentage of time of the Unit for Processing Web Resources dedicated to development of the service shows that its staff have taken over these tasks from the Project members as part of their everyday activities.

web resources; web archiving; economics of web archiving; processing costs; National and University Library of Croatia

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