Hi Dorothea >From my perspective, this week's topic is timely as I've just started work on the JISC-funded PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) Project, which runs until the end of this year.
The aim of the project is to develop COUNTER-compliant usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any entity (publisher, aggregator, IR, etc.,) that hosts online journal articles and will enable the usage of research outputs to be recorded, reported and consolidated at a global level in a standard way. We have identified the relevant statistics stakeholders as: * STM publishing community * IR managers * Individual researchers * Research library directors * HE/FE research funding agencies * Board of COUNTER We are only in the early stages of our research at the moment, but, by the end of the year, hope to be in a position to propose a format for COUNTER-compliant usage reports, together with supporting protocols, and submit this to COUNTER for approval as a new standard, to be adopted and maintained by COUNTER. Of course, this represents only one part of the wider IR statistics landscape but may be something useful to throw into the mix! Wearing another hat, as someone helping to run Cranfield University's IR (Cranfield CERES), I would echo other comments that have been made on the need for stats on a per-author and per-school/department basis, as well as various 'Top Ten' lists. Regards Paul ____________________________ Paul A S Needham Research & Innovation Specialist Kings Norton Library Cranfield University Cranfield MK43 0AL -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dorothea Salo Sent: 25 August 2008 14:09 To: dspace; DSpace Tech-List Subject: [Dspace-general] Week 2: Statistics Greetings, DSpace community, I want to thank everyone once again for last week's stimulating discussion and impressive chat turnout! I have a new question for everyone this week, pursuant to some discussion on the lists: "Statistics" are one of the commonest requests for a new DSpace feature. Without further specification, however, it's hard to know what data to present, since there are no standards or even clear best practices in this area. What statistics do the following groups of DSpace users need to see, and in what form are the statistics best presented to them? Depositors End-users (defined as "people examining items and downloading bitstreams from a DSpace instance;" we may have to refine this further in discussion) DSpace repository managers (as distinct from systems administrators) What else should developers keep in mind as they implement this feature? Because it would be nice to reach a working consensus on this (unlike last week's question, which was intended to pull out as broad a selection of needs as possible), I think we should start discussing immediately. I encourage all respondents to respond TO THE MAILING LIST instead of to me. I will be holding another chat to discuss the weekly question. It will take place Wednesday 27 August in the DSpace IRC chatroom, #dspace on irc.freenode.net. I apologize to West Coast (USA) community members for last week's unconscionably early hour; we'll try 10 am US Central (11 am Eastern, 4 pm GMT) this week, and we may go even later next week if our European community members can stand it. For those who don't normally use IRC, there are two easy web gateways. One is mibbit.com; the other is specific to our channel and can be found at <http://dspace.testathon.net/cgi-bin/irc.cgi>. I encourage all of us to become familiar with the channel; it is a source of real-time technical information from DSpace developers, as well as a community in its own right. Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
