All, Just a comment on Leonie's praise of the Statistics we are using for IDEALS (www.ideals.uiuc.edu):
Leonie Hayes wrote: > Dear DSpace Community > > Statistics > > 1. From a what works perspective there is already beautiful statistics > implementations addressing the minimum requirements, I think the IDEALS > repository has what I would be very happy with, these guys seem to be > one step ahead http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu I can remember asking Tim > Donohue about their implementation a few years ago, he said it was a > very customised solution, please correct me if wrong. I also find the > eprints and Fez Fedora stats are pretty good. Thanks for the praise...much appreciated! :) Though, some of the kudos should go to U of Rochester (http://urresearch.rochester.edu/), who initially created the Statistics package we use for DSpace. We've made some local modifications (like the "Top 10 Downloads" list), but much of the original work was done at U of Rochester. However, it's worth mentioning to all that although the statistics we are using for IDEALS look "pretty", there's still quite a bit of "ugliness" underneath. The main problem we have is that our statistics package does *NOT* automatically filter out web-crawlers like Google/Yahoo. Instead, it requires a person to go in and manually filter out downloads (via IP address) which look to be web-crawlers. It's definitely *not* a solution that scales well. So, although I think it was already mentioned, I'd add as a requirement for a good Statistics Package: * Must filter out web-crawlers in a semi-automated fashion! - Tim -- Tim Donohue Research Programmer, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217) 333-4648 _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
