I’m glad to announce that the RepositóriUM team at Minho University has finished the documentation and packaging off a new version of the DSpace Statistics Add-on, which we already use in our Repository for some months. This Add-on (see description below) is available at: http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn
The original purpose of the Statistics Add-on was to promote RepositóriUM and author self(or mediated)-archiving, by demonstrating the worldwide accessibility and usage (access/downloads) of archived documents. We also wanted to provide usage, content and administrative statistics to IR and community/collection administrators or coordinators. The Statistics System is an add-on to the DSpace platform that allows gathering, processing and presenting usage, content and administrative statistics. Despite the fact that its development was done to meet the specific needs of RepositóriUM, the system is completely adjustable to other environments as its components can easily be configured, changed or extended, to respond to different information needs. With the release of the current version 2.1 of the Stats System the main focus was solving some architectural issues of version 2.0, primarily: * Adapting the add-on to the new build and deploy mechanism of DSpace 1.5.1; * New mechanism for gathering the events on DSpace, avoiding DSpace logging mechanism and log4j JDBC Appender (replaced by Mark H. Wood UsageEvent plug-in); * New mechanism for aggregating the stats. Ported from pl/pgsql to Java; * Eliminate the pl/java language as a requirement; * Improvements on spider detection mechanism. The main features of the Statistics System are: * Customizable statistics queries * Customizable web interface look and feel of each statistic * Customizable access policies * Data stored in database * Access origin detection and processing * Crawler/spider exclusion * Real time/Batch statistics * Temporal data aggregation * Dimensional aggregations (e.g. Country, Document type, etc) * Charts * Multilanguage support You can see the implementation of the Add-on in RepositóriUM (https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt) where the general (IR level) access/download statistics (https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/stats?level=general&type=access&page=downviews-series) and individual access/download statistics (eg, http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803) are publicly available. Eloy Rodrigues Universidade do Minho - Serviços de Documentação Campus de Gualtar - 4710 - 057 Braga Telefone: + 351 253604150; Fax: + 351 253604159 Campus de Azurém - 4800 - 058 Guimarães Telefone: + 351 253510168; Fax: + 351 253510117 _______________________________________________ Instruções para desiscrever-se por conta própria: http://listas.ibict.br/cgi-bin/mailman/options/bib_virtual Bib_virtual mailing list [email protected] http://listas.ibict.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bib_virtual
