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This paper seeks to present findings on the use of the EDR\/SoR metadata registry system based on data from web logs transactions. It aims to broaden our understanding of how metadata registries are used, particularly as indicated by their own users.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The paper presents an analysis of web log transactions of a six\u2010year period (1998\u20102004). The focus of this paper is in three areas: use presented on a daily, monthly and yearly basis; trends in use (increasing\/decreasing) over a period of more than six years; and users of the metadata registry system as shown through the domain and directory reports.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The paper presents the daily, monthly and yearly use of the EDR\/SoR. It shows trends in its use for a period of over six years and identifies some of the metadata registry's users and the information they seek (as shown in the directory reports).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Transactional web logs, in general, record the internet protocol address of the computer that accessed the web site\/service. That is not necessarily linked to any one specific user. Therefore, results are presented as actual access numbers rather than human beings.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper is among the first of its kind to examine web log transactions in assessing metadata registry usage. 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