Sobek Digital Hosting & Consulting
Hosting Digital Resources & Integrated Curation Workflows
Hosting Digital Resources & Integrated Curation Workflows
Libraries and museums demand solutions to manage their online presence and make their unique digital and scholarly resources available for patrons at the same time many are seeing a decline in overall budgets. Sobek Digital offers a fixed cost hosted cloud solution to support institutional needs quickly and in a scalable way. Our hosting solution is a fraction of the cost of other solutions and provides more functionality across the board for your materials. Less money spent on socio-technical infrastructure allows institutions to focus on other needs, while we take care of your digital library, institutional repository, or your object database.
Sobek Digital is the perfect blend of open source and hosted solutions. Implementing your own open source solution can often take years and many resources, but working with Sobek Digital, we will create an instance of the non-proprietary, open source SobekCM Digital Repository software for you in our cloud. We will monitor, manage, and handle all upgrades to your instance as well as assist in minor customizations and initial design work. Using Sobek Digital your digital library presence will land on its feet and be able to focus on the digitization and curation of materials instead of the technical hurdles. And if your technology strategy changes later, you can migrate the entire open source solution to your infrastructure at any time. Or you may choose to contribute to the code base, to enhance your own solution and the larger community as well.
We offer two levels of pricing, based on the size and complexity of your digital repository. In addition, we offer discounts based on institutional type, size, and region. We will work with you to theme your instance, to provide the uniform look and feel with your own institutional website for that single online patron experience.
The Basic Bundle is for smaller institutions with limited material and is capped at 50GB of resources for $2,500 annually. This includes unlimited support, online training, and twenty hours of custom development and design.
Our Signature Bundle can handle increased complexity and size while still getting your institution up and running within days. This premium option can scale as large as you need and includes on-site training and forty-five hours annually of development and design work to customize the user experience for your institution. The non-discounted cost for Signature hosting, with up to 1 TB of space and your own instance in the cloud, is $8,500 annually.
Do you have a quote from another major digital library hosting company? We will match the price and double any size limitations of many major digital library hosting companies if their quote is somehow less than ours. Don't settle for less when you can have far more space, better technology, and better service at a considerable discount.
| Feature | Basic Bundle | Signature Bundle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan Cost | $2,500 | $8,500 | |
| Digital resource web space | |||
| Included size of hosted web resources | Limited to 50 GB | 1 TB (1024 GB) | |
| Each additional 500 GB of web space | n/a | $500 | |
| Digital repository URLs | |||
| Standard *.sobeklibrary.com URL | Included | Included | |
| First custom URL pointed to the hosted servers | Included | Included | |
| Each additional custom URL | n/a | $500 | |
| Other features | |||
| Custom development | 20 hours | 40 hours | |
| Ten hours of custom theming assistance | Included | Included | |
| Unlimited support | Included | Included | |
| Access to ticket system | Included | Included | |
| Automatic upgrades to new version of the software | Included | Included | |
| Premium usage analysis and monthly usage emails | Included | Included | |
| Online training | Included | Included | |
| Automatic backup and redundant storage | Included | Included | |
| Assistance with migration | Included | Included | |
| FTP access for bulk uploading | Included | Included | |
| On-site Training | Included | ||
| Access to all premium plug-ins | Included | ||
Some discounts may also apply. To discuss pricing for your institution, please contact us at sales@sobekdigital.com.
The Basic Bundle is priced at a flat $2,500 annually and scales up to 50GB of data.
The Signature Bundle can scale to as much capacity and complexity as you may need. Use the calculator below to estimate your annual hosting costs on the Signature plan before any discounts are applied:
| Feature | Quantity | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signature Bundle | 1 | $8,500 | ||
| Digital resource web space | ||||
| Web resource space | Free | |||
| Digital repository URLs | ||||
| Standard *.sobeklibrary.com URL | 1 | Free | ||
| Custom URL | Free | |||
| Other features | ||||
| Custom theming assistance | Ten hours | Free | ||
| Custom development programming | Forty hours | Free | ||
| Support (troubleshooting and general) | Unlimited | Free | ||
| Access to ticket system |  | Free | ||
| Automatic upgrades to new version of the software | | Free | ||
| Premium usage analysis and monthly usage emails | | Free | ||
| Online training | | Free | ||
| Automatic backup and redundant storage | | Free | ||
| Assistance with migration | | Free | ||
| FTP access for bulk uploading | | Free | ||
| TOTAL | $8,000 | |||
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