Time Costs to Digitize Print Agricultural Serial Publications

Time studies were conducted on the various steps in the digitization, quality control and ingestion into a DSpace institutional repository of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins. The average time to scan each pagewas 0.92 minutes. The time to createDublin Core metadata, assign NALT subject terms, and do item quality control of images was 20.48 minutes per item. PDF file creation was 16.4 minutes per item on average. The time to create a DSpace batch load for automated ingestionwas 1.34 minutes. The time to do quality control checking on ingested items and publish the items was 2.03 minutes