Talk:Costs

Costs for data curation, archiving and publication is a matter of negotiation depending on the requirements and the amount and complexity of the data. Following EU recommendations it is usualy 1-3 % of the project budget.

project-related costs

 * data curator (equivalent to TV-L E12/E13): 54-58.8 k€/personyear (DFG 2008/2009 see link)
 * support for large scale projects, e.g. EU: 1 personmonth/year + 85% overhead = 10 k€/year
 * individual support by Pangaea department: 32.- €/h
 * portal setup - depending on the status of the content in the repositories of data providers: 0.5 to 10 k€
 * data supplement of publication: 120.- €/paper (equivalent to page charges for publications)
 * data archiving: 40.- €/data set (volume discount)
 * DOI registration: 0.50 €/DOI (volume discount)
 * data compilations/products depending on the number of parameters: minimum 250.-€

operational costs at AWI computer center (2009)
total -> 7.5 k€/a
 * Personal (75 k€/personyear)
 * 1 week pro-rata / network, backup, systems = 75/52 k€/a (Herbert, Hans KB, Jens, Chresten)
 * 1 month pro-rata/RDBMS Sybase = 75/12 k€/a (Christian)

 total ->  35 k€/a
 * Investment, consumables, licences, support, maintanance
 * Hardware: 10 k€/5 years   -> 2 k€/year
 * SW-maintenance                 -> 25 k€/year
 * training every 5 years         -> 0.5 k€/year

operational fix costs (proposed)

 * system manager
 * data librarian
 * web services (2)
 * project manager
 * user frontend/data visualization/GIS
 * documentation/secretary
 * data archaeology
 * data typist

 total PANGAEA budget (aimed) ->  500 k€/a

Links
Personaldurchschnittssätze der DFG 2008/9