UPLINK Service Fees
 

Annual Membership Dues:

  • Annual budget up to $1,000 = $25 annual fee
  • Annual budget $1,000 - $5,000 = $50 annual fee 
  • Annual budget $5,000 - $50,000 = $75 annual fee 
  • Annual budget $50,000 and up = $100 annual fee
     

Services Included with Annual Membership:

  • Inclusion on the UPLINK website as a member organization: promotes awareness of your organization and encourages people to visit your website and perhaps visit your organization in-person
  • Continued maintenance of your digital collections: UPLINK maintains two back-up copies of each digital collection as well as the copy on our web server
  • Finding aids and/or descriptions and inventories of your collections: gets the word out about your digital and your analog collections
  • Free access to digitization equipment: Borrow text and photo scanners, digital cameras, and audio recorders for one month at a time. Or, come to Marquette to use an oversized book scanner and AV equipment.
  • Training on doing your own digitization and metadata and consultation on copyright and other topics: UPLINK staff can provide in-person or remote training to help you with your projects
     

Service Charges (One-time fees):

Organizations can pay UPLINK to do just ingest, just digitization and ingest, just metadata and ingest, or all three.

UPLINK endeavors to keep its fees as cheap as possible. We charge approximately one-third of our labor costs. The rest is subsidized by Northern Michigan University. 

  • Digitization, metadata, and database ingest:

    • Documents and photographs
      • 0-500 pages: $0.20/page
      • 501-4999 pages: $0.15/page
      • 5000+ pages: $0.10/page
    • Audio-Visual
      • 0-10 hours: $2/hour
      • 10-50 hours: $1.50/hour
      • 50+ hours: $1/hour

     

  • Digitization and database ingest:

    • Documents and photographs
      • 0-500 pages: $0.15/page
      • 500-5000 pages: $0.10/page
      • 5000+ pages: $0.05/page
    • Audio-Visual
      • 0-10 hours: $1/hour
      • 10-50 hours: $0.75/hour
      • 50+ hours: $0.50/hour

     

  • Metadata and database ingest:

    • 0-500 items: $0.15/item
    • 500-5000 items: $0.10/item
    • 5000+ items: $0.05/item

     

  • Database ingest:
    • 0-500 items: $0.10/item
    • 500-5000 items: $0.05/item
    • 5000+ items: $0.01/item

Please note the difference between pages and items in the prices above! A page refers to a single scan (which for books would be a double-spread). An item refers to the unit that will get its own individual description. It could be a single map, a book containing many pages, or an oral history interview.