1. Exploratory Analysis of Metadata Edit Events in the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections Dublin Core International Conference Wednesday, September 2, 2015 São Paulo, Brazil

6. Who?

8. Percentage of Total Edits and Total Users by Editor Classification

9. What?

10. Number of Edits for Top Ten Most Edited Partner Materials

11. Number of Collections Edited, for Top Ten Most Edited Partners

12. Number of Edits for Top Ten Most Edited Collections

13. How Long?

16. Time Comparisons

17. Number of Records Edited and Average Time, By Type

18. Average Time for the Top Ten Editors

19. Average Time for the Top Ten Most Edited Collections

21. Findings & Next Steps

22. (1) We can provide general average editing times

23. (2) We can reasonably use edit data to determine if editors are “completing” records or making minor changes

24. (3) This information can be used by supervisors and project managers

25. (4) This data can also be used to estimate costs

26. (5) Others can use this data as a point of comparison

27. Questions? Hannah Tarver hannah.tarver@unt.edu Mark Phillips mark.phillips@unt.edu