Hi, You know that there is a serious problem with this repository ranking. It only takes in account repositories with a basic url, something like www.oceandocs.net. If you have subdomain e.g. ../dspace then it will not be included.
I add here a mail I send to the coordinator of 'Ranking Web of World Universities and his reply: --------------------------------------------- > Dear, > > > > I was surprised not to find a few repositories in the list you have > created, in the first place our institutional repository: Document > ser...@uhasselt (https://doclib.uhasselt.be/dspace) and the IOC > repository OceanDocs (http://iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin). Then I read the > methodology of the ranking websites. I do not understand why you > exclude urls with subdomains. That is the reason why our sites and > probably many other DSpace sites are not included in the list. The > basic installation of Dspace just uses this subdomain structure. > > > > This will also limit the relevance of your list. Why do you not just > use all the registered repositories in ROAR or OpenDOAR for ranking? > > > > Regards > > > > Marc Goovaerts > Staff member Information Technology > Hasselt University Library > Bibliotheek Universiteit Hasselt > E. [email protected] Dear Marc: Thanks for your kind message.There is no problem adding your repository to the list as "/dspace" is not a problem for us. Unfortunately other addresses with directories are both technically difficult for us and also less visible from search engines point of view. We will add your repository for the next July edition and all other you suggest us complying with the domain/subdomain condition. Best regards, Isidro F. Aguillo ------------------------------------------------- Regards Marc Goovaerts Staff member Information Technology Hasselt University Library Bibliotheek Universiteit Hasselt E. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:09:24 +0100 From: Claudia J?rgen <[email protected]> Subject: [Dspace-tech] institutional repository ranking and page rank To: DSpace Tech <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Hi all, most of you are aware of the repository ranking: http://repositories.webometrics.info/index.html Due to a question on GUDE I was curious about the relation of this ranking to page ranking and did a check on the top 300 institutional repositories in the CSIC ranking: Of the top 100 institutional repositories 41 use DSpace and these got an average page ranking of 6.44. Of the top 300 institutional repositories 115 use DSpace and these got an average page ranking of 6.08. Thought some of you might be interested Claudia J?rgen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
