I'm part of a small community music project in the UK which is hoping to publish a series of folk song books over the next few years. In addition to the print editions, we'd want to put the tunes, and maybe a few verses, on a website. I understand that people here might be able to offer an educated guess as to how I cost some of the work that needs to be done.

I'm thinking primarily of

a) noting down some music which might only be available on tape in archives - we'd need just the melody line, but would need to pay someone to 'take it down'

b) transferring music, either as per a) or stuff that's already available, to an appropriate format: abc or whatever

And if anyone has an opinion on what the most appropriate format might be - we'd appreciate advice on that too.

But mostly I'm interested in what you think we need to pay someone to do these jobs. Maybe an hourly rate?

many thanks