Just a note: It'd be great to see this sort of work come back into DSpace if you feel it could be generalized, Andrea! Nice work!
- Tim On 9/13/2011 6:31 PM, Andrea Schweer wrote: > Hi Alvin, > > On 13/09/11 04:42, Hutchinson, Alvin wrote: >> Has anyone tried to generate custom statistics for individual >> author/creators? > > I wrote customised statistics for the four repositories that I'm looking > after. Three of these are publicly available: > > http://otago.ourarchive.ac.nz/stats > http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/stats > http://unitec.researchbank.ac.nz/stats > > These links go to the statistics pages for the entire repository, which > include top author statistics; statistics pages for each author are also > available (and linked from the main statistics page). > > My customisations build on the solr-based statistics that were > introduced with DSpace 1.6. I customised these quite heavily; the most > important addition for author statistics is that the authors of an item > are included in the data posted to solr for item page views and file > downloads. That way, I can then query solr for all item page views / > file downloads for a given author in the same way as it's possible in > the default solr stats to query for all item page views / file downloads > in a given collection etc. > > There are drawbacks to including author data directly in the statistics > data. The alternative is something similar to what Peter Dietz described > in his response over on dspace-tech: get all of an author's item ids > (maybe from discovery, if you want to stick to solr) and then query by > those. > > I'm happy to share more technical details of my customisations if you or > anyone else is interested. > > cheers, > Andrea > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
