Hi, Every six months, the Webometrics ranking is being updated. The july edition will come out soon. It's important to stress the fact that this ranking is based on visibility in search engines & counts the number of incoming links to your reopsitory.
In order to measure these attributes, it's a prerequisite that your repository has a unique URL, and is not a subdomain from another URL. to give an example: http://www.myuniversity.edu/dspace => NOT GOOD http://dspace.myuniversity.edu => GOOD To understand why, look at the type of queries in Yahoo, they use to get the number of incoming links. linkdomain:dspace.myuniversity.edu -site:dspace.myuniversity.edu (gives all the links to the dspace, excluding those links coming from within the repository) Alternatively, you can use the Yahoo site explorer to find out more details about your incoming links. http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ It's probably not a good idea to change your URL right now, for inclusion in the ranking of July, but rather change it in the coming months, so you have time to *ensure that people start linking to your new URL*. If you are using hdl.net as reference url's to your items, you can ensure that links to items stay persistent, even though you are changing the url of your repository. Every edition of the webometrics rankings, the way they measure some repositories can be tuned//affected. If your repository or institution is affected, it might be wise to get into dialogue with Webometrics BEFORE the updated ranking is published. Often, traffic from URLS are being combined, or split up. Sometimes these changes are positive for your ranking, sometimes they are negative. Note that these changes might affect the repository ranking, the university ranking, or both. Affected institutions in July 2009 (SOURCE: http://internetlab.blogspot.com/) • University of Helsinki. • Imperial College • University of Manchester • Technical University of Munich • Caltech & Jet Propulsion Laboratory • Pennsylvania State University • University of Trier • Harvard Business School will be merged with Harvard University and the former entry will be deleted. • *Johns Hopkings* • *UNAM* • Cardiff University • UPMC • Universität Zurich • Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munchen • Technische Universität Dortmund. • Barcelona, Autónoma de Barcelona and Politècnica de Catalunya. • *universities de Strasbourg* • Kansas State, Northeastern University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Under consideration merging the Dutch University Hospitals with their corresponding Universities • The City College (CUNY) • Lund Institute of Technology • There a few universities with faculties having fully independent domains. As there is central domain all these extra entries will be deleted but the data will not combined. Currently this applies to University of Zagreb , Warsaw University and Universidad de la República (Uruguay). The full explanation of the Webometrics methodology is available here: http://repositories.webometrics.info/methodology_rep.html More web-visibility best practices are available here: http://repositories.webometrics.info/best_practices.html <commercial-message> If you require *in depth assistance* with changing your url's, configuring your tomcat properly (for example, to remove the :8080 from your url), setting up an hdl.net server for persistant url's, ... @mire offers professional, on demand services in this area. </commercial-message> best regards, Bram Luyten @mire - http://www.atmire.com Technologielaan 9 - 3001 Heverlee - Belgium 533 2nd Street - Encinitas, CA 92024 - USA http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther 2009/3/20 Claudia Jürgen <[email protected]> > Hi Christophe, > > that shouldn't be too diffult as their evaluation is based on ROAR and > openDOAR. > > Sunny greetings > > Claudia Jürgen > > > Dupriez Christophe schrieb: > > Nice chart! >> >> It would be interesting to make another one (if possible) counting >> publications instead of instances (number of publications by repository >> software). But may be those figures are hard to find... >> >> Have a nice day! >> >> Christophe >> >> --- En date de : Mer 18.3.09, Bram Luyten <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> De: Bram Luyten <[email protected]> >>> Objet: Re: [Dspace-tech] institutional repository ranking and page rank >>> À: "Claudia Jürgen" <[email protected]> >>> Cc: "DSpace Tech" <[email protected]> >>> Date: Mercredi 18 Mars 2009, 17h06 >>> Thanks Claudia, >>> very nice ! >>> >>> I'm very amazed to see so few fedora repositories in >>> there. I made a quick summary about the numbers from your >>> file: >>> >>> DSpace 131 >>> ePrints 61 >>> not specified 32 >>> >>> bepress 21 >>> Opus 9 >>> ETD-db 6 >>> HAL 5 >>> CDSWare 4 >>> eDoc 3 >>> ETD 3 >>> Cocoon 2 >>> Cybertesis 2 >>> Diva-Portal 2 >>> dLibra 2 >>> ePub 2 >>> MyCore 2 >>> Wildfire 2 >>> Archimedes 1 >>> >>> DITED 1 >>> DOKS 1 >>> Fedora 1 >>> Mikrobeta 1 >>> Miless 1 >>> Orbit 1 >>> Perseus 1 >>> Voorportaal 1 >>> VTS 1 >>> ZyImage 1 >>> >>> In attachment, a representation as a pie chart, where I >>> grouped all of the softwares with less than 4 occurences >>> under "other". (so you could argue that >>> "other" and "not specified" are the >>> same. >>> >>> >>> best regards, >>> >>> Bram >>> >>> @mire NV >>> Technologielaan 9 (New address !) >>> 3001 Heverlee >>> Belgium >>> +32 2 888 29 56 >>> >>> http://www.atmire.com - >>> Institutional Repository Solutions >>> >>> http://www.togather.eu - >>> Before getting together, get t...@ther >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM, >>> Claudia Jürgen <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> >>> for those interested the top 300 IR's Jan 09 by CSIC >>> can be found at: >>> >>> http://hdl.handle.net/2003/26032 >>> >>> for download (enhanced with software used and page rank). >>> >>> >>> >>> Claudia Jürgen >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Bram Luyten schrieb: >>> >>> >>> Very interesting, didn't know they had a January >>> edition. >>> >>> I will compare the standings of institutions that are also >>> included in my >>> >>> Google Analytics Stats research, and see if the order >>> "matches" the order in >>> >>> this ranking. >>> >>> If the orders match, it could be a useful indicator that >>> both webometrics >>> >>> and Google Analytics measure results in similar ways. >>> >>> >>> >>> However, if there is a (big) difference, it might be worth >>> investigating >>> >>> further. >>> >>> >>> >>> thanks for bringing this up Claudia, >>> >>> >>> >>> Bram >>> >>> PS: I submitted part of the current findings of the GA >>> Stats research as a >>> >>> proposal for OR09, but if you still want to share your >>> stats, please do .. >>> >>> the more included repositories, the more reliable the >>> results. >>> >>> >>> >>> @mire NV >>> >>> Romeinse Straat 18 >>> >>> 3001 Heverlee >>> >>> Belgium >>> >>> +32 2 888 29 56 >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.atmire.com - >>> Institutional Repository Solutions >>> >>> http://www.togather.eu - >>> Before getting together, get t...@ther >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Claudia Jürgen < >>> >>> [email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 Jürgen >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----La pièce jointe associée suit----- >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex >>> Builder(TM) are >>> powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform >>> capabilities. 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