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Examining change of collection data over time #3

Open mjcollin opened 8 years ago

mjcollin commented 8 years ago

iDigBio keeps all versions of records in addition to keeping data information about when versions are created. This means that what data is provided to us is knowable at any given point in time.

At what rate are collections increasing what they are sharing digitally? Does this relate to new initiatives at collections?

At what rate is data quality/completeness improving?

Are there changes to records that automated data quality checks does not capture eg changing the collector from "Smith" to "Johnson" or the latitude from "1.234" to "1.238"? What does that rate of change say about the probability of data values being correct even if they pass all semantic correctness checks?