Licensing Data from CJKI
One-time licensing fee
With optional maintenance
Consulting
Or project basis
Stock options
Combined with licensing fee and/or royalties
Annual licensing fee
With optional maintenance
Royalties based on sales
Possibly combined with lower licensing fee
Work for hire
Customer may retain ownership rights
Our data is available in any desired format, such as either comma-delimited or tab-delimited text files, Excel, XML, HTML, etc., and in any encoding, such as UTF-8, Shift JIS, EUC, GB-2312, and Big Five.
Customization
We customize our lexical databases and fine-tune them to specific applications, rather than sell shrink-wrapped packages to end-users. To achieve this, we study our customers’ needs in-depth, help write the specifications, and after extensive consultation prepare a data package that meets the customer’s precise needs, often to the point where no further engineering is required. Not only do we customize data packages based on our existing resources, but we also build custom databases from scratch. We have extensive experience in putting together teams to compile large-scale dictionaries in a short period of time, using our sophisticated tools for automating the compilation process which can significantly reduce costs to the customer.
Licensing Fees
We are not resellers, nor are we a “data vendor” — we are a linguistic institute, and create the data ourselves based on several decades of experience and extensive know-how of CJK and Arabic lexicography. We don’t have fixed prices because, in principle, we don’t provide off-the-shelf products. The licensing fees are determined on a case-by-case basis depending on your specific needs and budget. To determine our fees, we consider such factors as the type of data required, the number of entries, the data fields, how the data will be used, and the like. Though our fees are quite reasonable, they can be significantly lowered for internal (rather than commercial) use, and be much lower if the data is to be used for research purposes. On occasion we donate data to worthy causes.
Working with CJKI
It is important to note that the benefits of working with us go well beyond cost. We are flexible in matters of format, delivery dates and business model, work hard to have an in-depth understanding of the customer’s needs, and provide excellent service that includes a reasonable amount of free technical and linguistic advice as well as free minor upgrades. Licensing data from CJKI is not merely “buying” data — it is entering into a close relationship that ensures constant advice, technical/linguistic support, and upgrades. Combined with our reasonable fees, we feel this provides great value to the customer.