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CARIBBEAN NEWSPAPER IMAGING PROJECT

Phase II: OCR Gateway to Indexing




PERSONNEL
K esse, E rich ............ ........................ ................ ...... ....... ..... ........ ..... $ 2 ,750.00
Director, Digital Library Center; Project Manager (@ 0.05 FTE)
B ressette E ve ....................................................................... $ 1,045.00
Supervisor of Technicians (Student Assistants) (@ 0.05 FTE)
W inston, H arris ................................................ .................................. $ 1,082.83
Senior Programmer (@ 0.025 FTE)
Phillips, Richard .......... ....................................... .......... ........ .. ...... .. .... $ 1,142.83
Chief Librarian, Latin American Center (@ 0.025 FTE)
A lle rto n D avid ................................... .............................. ...... ... .............. $ 1,150 .85
Archivist, Supervisor of Indexing Technicians (Student Assistants) (@ 0.05 FTE)
Indexing Technicians ...................................................... ............................. $ 385.00
Student Assistants assigned to index selected issues of the Trinidad Guardian
70 hours at $5.50/hr
Im aging Technicians ................ ............. ................. ........... ....... .......... $ 517.00
Student Assistants assigned to scan additional images of the Diano de la Marina and Le
Nouvelliste, as well as new images from the Trinidad Guardian.
94 hours at $5.50/hr
OCR Technicians & Readers........................................... ........................ $ 5,203.00
Student Assistants assigned to read OCR out-put against electronic raster (TIFF) images of
newspaper pages.
Readers, either native speakers of a target language or a language major, specialized in the
Spanish of the Diano de la Marina, the French of Le Nouvelliste, or the English of the Trinidad
Guardian.
946 hours at $5.50/hr
Total Personnel Expenditure ............................................... .................. $ 13,276.51

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
Optical Character Recognition Software ........................................... $1,014.49
O m niPage P ro ................... ........................ ......... ................. $ 87.99
TextBridge ......... ................ ..................................... ................ $ 86.99
T ype R eader........................................................................... ............... $ 262 .5 1
Adobe Acrobat Capture ..................................................... $ 577.00
W orkstations (2 at $3968 each)......... ..................... ................................. $ 7,936.00
Configured for processing (creating, manipulating and OCR of) newspaper images
Workstations and scanners.
Total Hardware & Software Expenditure ........................................... $ 8,950.49

BUDGET SUMMARY
T total Expenditure .......................................................... ....................... $ 22 ,227.00








CARIBBEAN NEWSPAPER IMAGING PROJECT

Phase II: OCR Gateway to Indexing




PERSONNEL
Indexing Technicians ...................................................... ............................. $ 385.00
Student Assistants assigned to index selected issues of the Trinidad Guardian
70 hours at $5.50/hr
Im aging Technicians ........... ..... ............. ........... ...... ........... ....... .......... $ 517.00
Student Assistants assigned to scan additional images of the Diario de la Marina and Le
Nouvelliste, as well as new images from the Trinidad Guardian.
94 hours at $5.50/hr
OCR Technicians & Readers........................................... ........................ $ 5,203.00
Student Assistants assigned to read OCR out-put against electronic raster (TIFF) images of
newspaper pages.
Readers, either native speakers of a target language or a language major, specialized in the
Spanish of the Diario de la Marina, the French of Le Nouvelliste, or the English of the Trinidad
Guardian.
946 hours at $5.50/hr
Total Personnel Expenditure .......... ...................................... ................. $ 6,105.00

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
Optical Character Recognition Software ..................................................... $ 262.51
TypeReader.................................... .................$ 262.51
W orkstations (2) ........................................................................ ............... $ 5,732.49
Configured for processing (manipulating and OCR of) newspaper images
Computer workstations ONLY.
Total Hardware & Software Expenditure ........................................... $ 5,995.00

BUDGET SUMMARY
Total Expenditure ......... .................................................... . ...... .............. $ 12,100.00







CARIBBEAN NEWSPAPER IMAGING PROJECT

Phase II: OCR Gateway to Indexing




PERSONNEL
K esse, E rich ................................................ ... ................... ... ......... ..... $ 2 ,750.00
Director, Digital Library Center; Project Manager (@ 0.05 FTE)
B ressette E ve ....................................................................... $ 1,045.00
Supervisor of Technicians (Student Assistants) (@ 0.05 FTE)
W inston, H arris ................................................ ................................ $ 1,082.83
Senior Programmer (@ 0.025 FTE)
Phillips, Richard .... .............. .............. ..... ..... .. ...... ....... $ 1,142.83
Chief Librarian, Latin American Center (@ 0.025 FTE)
A lle rto n D avid ................................................. ... ..................... .... ............ $ 1,150 .85
Archivist, Supervisor of Indexing Technicians (Student Assistants) (@ 0.05 FTE)
Total Personnel Expenditure ........ .......................................... ............ $ 7,171.51

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
Optical Character Recognition Software ..................................................... $ 751.98
O m niPage P ro ................... ........................ ......... ................. $ 87.99
TextBridge ................ ......... .............. ........ ... ............... $ 86.99
A dobe A crobat C capture ............................... ............................................ 577 .00
W orkstations Scanners (2) ...... ............... .............. $ 2203.51
Scanners only
Total Hardware & Software Expenditure ................................. ............. $ 2,955.49

BUDGET SUMMARY
Total Expenditure ........................................................ ................... $ 10,127.00