[Nhcoll-l] Effort and time consumption by the curator

[Rob Robins]

Sergio,
I would suggest pulling example requests from the last 10-20 years, faithfully labeling all with a number until you got to some reasonable amount, say, 100.

Enumerate each.

Use a random number generating app to determine your subsample.

Go forth and retrieve using a randomly selected staff member (same process as above) for each search (to guard against the same person getting more practiced and efficient in the course of doing all the searches in a short time span).

E.g., results might look like:


  1.
Bart
  2.
Lisa
  3.
Marge
  4.
Marge
  5.
Lisa
  6.
Homer

....and so on.

If requested materials are really only ever retrieved by the Curator...probably there  should be some time between searches. Not sure how you factor that.

Just a broad outline, that would no doubt benefit from edit/revision by the group/those with more experimental design/statistics chops than me (likely to be 99 percent of this community).

Best wishes,

Rob


Robert H. Robins

Collection Manager

Division of Ichthyology

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Florida Museum

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Office: (352) 273-1957

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Hello everyone,

We need to calculate the time and effort spent by a curator to perform a given task. In our case, it would involve searching for a specimen in the collection, starting from the moment the query is answered, conducting a database search, accessing the collection, locating the specimen, the curator returning to their workplace, and finally, providing an answer to the initial question.

I'm interested in learning if anyone has knowledge or experience with projects or reports that include this type of measurement, and to understand what methodologies or protocols have been utilized for its calculation.

Thank you very much in advance!

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Sergio Montagud Alario

Museu [UV] Història Natural

Universitat de València

e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es<mailto:sergio.montagud at uv.es>

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