Cost of Online Collections

Dan Zambonini made this Freedom of Information request to The National Gallery

The request was successful.

From: Dan Zambonini

10 February 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

With regards to your online collections (i.e. website(s) that allow
users to browse your collection(s)), can you please detail:

1) How much it cost to put your collections online? (Not including
digitisation costs)

2) How many page views, on average, the online collections receive
per month?

3) If you have participated in any cross-institutional collections
projects (e.g. Europeana, People's Network, NMOLP), how much it
cost to make your collections available to the project (or how much
it is expected to cost, for current projects)?

Yours faithfully,

Dan Zambonini

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From: Crookham, Alan
The National Gallery

9 March 2009

Dear Dan Zambonini

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
with regard to the cost of online collections at the National Gallery.

1) How much it cost to put your collections online? (Not including
digitisation costs)

Information about the collections has been online since 2000 but we do
not have a separate figure for the amount spent on providing this
service as the costs would have been absorbed within routine budgets.
Therefore we are unable to provide you with this information.

2) How many page views, on average, the online collections receive per
month?

In the past twelve months the average number of pages views for visitors
to the online collections has been approximately one million per month.

3) If you have participated in any cross-institutional collections
projects (e.g. Europeana, People's Network, NMOLP), how much it cost to
make your collections available to the project (or how much it is
expected to cost, for current projects)?

The Gallery is not involved in any cross-institutional collections
projects and we therefore do not have any information regarding the
costs for these projects.

We hope this provides you with the information you require but if you
wish to request an internal review of this decision, please write to Dr
Susan Foister, Director of Collections, The National Gallery, Trafalgar
Square, London, WC2N 5DN.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information
Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire,
SK9 5AF.

If you have any queries about this email, please don't hesitate to
contact me.

Yours sincerely

Alan Crookham

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Alan Crookham
Archivist
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN
Tel 020 7747 2831
Fax 020 7747 2892
[email address]

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