Appendix 2: Data on Time Taken to Create/Edit

The average time taken per record was 20.3 minutes (range 9-37 minutes). This was made up of 11.5 minutes for upgrading the DC data (5-32 minutes) and then 8.8 minutes for adding the NZGLS elements (3-21 minutes). Time taken for Quality Assurance was not included in these figures (this is estimated to be around 5 minutes per record). The individual elements that take the most time are the "access points" for the record - Description, Subject, and Function. On average, the time taken to create the description was 1.4 minutes and the time taken to create the NZGLS Subject and Function data was 2.7 minutes (whereas creating the LCSH subject data took 4.4 minutes on average).

Some of the DC tags are also required for NZGLS compliance and the intellectual effort used creating some of the DC metadata can be re-utilised in the NZGLS metadata (e.g. Subject analysis for DC identifies the themes this resource covers which then makes selecting the SONZ terms for NZGLS easier). So the minimum time it would take to upgrade existing DC and create NZGLS metadata would be 8.8 (NZGLS) + 1.4 (Description) + 2.8 (an estimated half of the remaining DC time) = 13 minutes. A previous finding found the time taken to create DC metadata from scratch is on par with the time taken to upgrade an existing record, so this figure could also be applied to creating NZGLS data from scratch.