Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Cindy Harper
We're a III library (yes I know), and looking into the new Sierra product's API that promises to release some of this data to us for use in a 3rd-party product such as you describe. III does have its proprietary Encore Reporter product, but I'm predicting some Sierra sites will look for an open-sou

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I spoke too soon, I wasn't able to actually add a comment, "Your comment has been queued for moderation by site administrators and will be published after approval," but I'm not sure if there's anyone actually looking at that moderation queue. Sigh. But my account has 'edit' abilities on the w

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Jason Stirnaman
I'll try to update a few more. You can adjust the starttime parameter (in seconds) in the URL accordingly for each talk. Of course, you have to watch to figure out where they start. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center js

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Jason Stirnaman
Correction: Thomas Barker. Sorry. PS, Here's the link for jumping to Thomas Browning's Metridoc talk: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=C4L2011_session_2_20110208.mp4&starttime=3600 Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Thanks, I added this as a comment on the code4lib talk page from the conf. If anyone else happens to be looking for a video and finds it, and you want to add it to the code4lib talk page in question, it would probably be useful for findability. In the past I think someone bulk added the URLs

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Jason Stirnaman
PS, Here's the link for jumping to Thomas Browning's Metridoc talk: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=C4L2011_session_2_20110208.mp4&starttime=3600 Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas M

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Jason Stirnaman
Thanks, Jonathan. I vaguely recall the presentation. Looks like their code is available at http://code.google.com/p/metridoc/ and active. Definitely worth trying. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 9

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Yeah, I think it ends up being pretty hard to create general-purpose solutions to this sort of thing that are both not-monstrous-to-use and flexible enough to do what everyone wants. Which is why most of the 'data warehouse' solutions you see end up being so terrible, in my analysis. I am no

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-14 Thread Jason Stirnaman
When all else fails, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence_tools#Open_source_free_products RapidMiner and Pentaho Community Editions both look appealing. I hope to try them out soon. I also found the Ruby ActiveWarehouse and ActiveWarehouse-ETL projects which look

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-13 Thread Jason Stirnaman
Thanks, Shirley! I remember seeing that before but I'll look more closely now. I know what I'm describing is also known, typically, as a data warehouse. I guess I'm trying to steer around the usual solutions in that space. We do have an Oracle-driven data warehouse on campus, but the project is

[CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation

2011-09-13 Thread Jason Stirnaman
Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for platforms that can aggregate usage data from multiple sources, combine it with financial data, and then provide some analysis, graphing, data views, etc? >From what I can tell, something like Ex Libris' Alma would require all >"fulfillment" tr