MarcEdit usage snapshot

I’m always interested in seeing if people are still finding and using MarcEdit. There are a few ways I track usage, but the easiest way is to just check the website logs after an update. Since posting MarcEdit 7.8, I can see the various versions of the application have been downloaded by 17,000 unique users from around the globe. A quick look at application startups (which ping the update server if allowed by the user) indicate that last month, the program was initiated 1.3 million times.

This tells me that the program is still filling a need within the community and I’m glad folks are still finding it useful. I worry a little about what this says about the library software ecosystem in general though. I started writing this back in 1999 because creating metadata was a lot harder than it needed to be. It surprises me a little that this still seems to be the case.

–tr