On 5/14/09, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to start off some discussion of how DSpace can provide better > statistics on its content and functioning. Here are some thoughts to > spark the conversation: > > o "Statistics" is a broad and diffuse topic. We will probably > identify more than one distinct area of focus. What contributors > need to see is not what the site's providers and champions need to > see, is not what senior administrators need to see, is not what > sysadmin.s need to see, is not what Promotion and Tenure committees > need to see....
Yes, it is a broad topic but there is a standard for usage stats. It is called COUNTER. The specs may be found at http://www.projectcounter.org/index.html. This std is not ideal. There is insufficient provision for internationalisation, for example. Also the std leans towards the use of closed-secret-proprietary file formats such as Micro$oft Excel. But hey, it's a start. My DSpace has, for a given article, PDF and HTML versions. When you get taken to the article page you pick which format you want. It would be good if usage stats show separate counts for the PDF and HTML. Also, for DSpace items that are books I have a separate TOC. It would be useful to distinguish between counts for the book and counts for the TOC. Regards, Andrew Marlow -- Regards, Andrew M. http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
