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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Apologies
for cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I’m
glad to announce that the RepositóriUM team at Minho University has finished
the documentation and packaging off a new version of the DSpace Statistics
Add-on, which we already use in our Repository for some months. This Add-on
(see description below) is available at: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a
href="http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn"
title="blocked::http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn"><span
lang=EN-GB>http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn</span></a></span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The original purpose of the <a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a
name="OLE_LINK2"></a>Statistics Add-on was to promote RepositóriUM and author
self(or mediated)-archiving, by </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>demonstrating the worldwide
accessibility and usage (access/downloads) of archived documents. We also
wanted to provide usage, content and administrative statistics to IR and
community/collection administrators or coordinators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Statistics System is an add-on to the </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.dspace.org"><span
lang=EN-GB>DSpace</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'> <span lang=EN-GB>platform that allows gathering,
processing and presenting usage, content and administrative statistics. Despite
the fact that its development was done to meet the specific needs of </span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt"><span lang=EN-GB>RepositóriUM</span></a></span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, the
system is completely adjustable to other environments as its components can
easily be configured, changed or extended, to respond to different information
needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>With the
release of the current version 2.1 of the Stats System the main focus was
solving some architectural issues of version 2.0, primarily: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Adapting the add-on to the new build and
deploy mechanism of DSpace 1.5.1; <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New mechanism for gathering the events
on DSpace, avoiding DSpace logging mechanism and log4j JDBC Appender
(replaced by Mark H. Wood UsageEvent plug-in); <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New mechanism for aggregating the stats.
Ported from pl/pgsql to Java; <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Eliminate the pl/java language as a
requirement; <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Improvements
on spider detection mechanism. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The main
features of the Statistics System are: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Customizable
statistics queries <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Customizable web interface look and feel
of each statistic <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Customizable
access policies <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Data
stored in database <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Access
origin detection and processing <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Crawler/spider
exclusion <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Real
time/Batch statistics <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Temporal
data aggregation <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dimensional
aggregations (e.g. Country, Document type, etc) <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Charts
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Multilanguage
support <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>You can see the implementation of the Add-on in RepositóriUM (<a
href="https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/"
title="blocked::https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/">https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt</a>)
where the general (IR level) access/download statistics (<a
href="https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/stats?level=general&type=access&page=downviews-series">https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/stats?level=general&type=access&page=downviews-series</a>)
and individual access/download statistics (eg, </span><code><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a
href="http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803"
title="blocked::http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803">http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803</a></span></code><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>)
are publicly available. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best
Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Eloy
Rodrigues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Universidade
do Minho - Serviços de Documentação<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Campus
de Gualtar - 4710 - 057 Braga <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Telefone:
+ 351 253604150; Fax: + 351 253604159<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Campus
de Azurém - 4800 - 058 Guimarães<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Telefone:
+ 351 253510168; Fax: + 351 253510117<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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