[Dspace-general] New Version (2.1) of the DSpace Statistics Add-on

[Eloy Rodrigues]

Apologies for cross-posting

 

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:
<http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn>
http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn

 

The original purpose of the Statistics Add-on was to promote RepositóriUM
and author self(or mediated)-archiving, by 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.

 

The Statistics System is an add-on to the  <http://www.dspace.org> DSpace
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  <https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt>
RepositóriUM, the system is completely adjustable to other environments as
its components can easily be configured, changed or extended, to respond to
different information needs.

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: 

*	Adapting the add-on to the new build and deploy mechanism of DSpace
1.5.1; 
*	New mechanism for gathering the events on DSpace, avoiding DSpace
logging mechanism and log4j JDBC Appender (replaced by Mark H. Wood
UsageEvent plug-in); 
*	New mechanism for aggregating the stats. Ported from pl/pgsql to
Java; 
*	Eliminate the pl/java language as a requirement; 
*	Improvements on spider detection mechanism. 

The main features of the Statistics System are: 

*	Customizable statistics queries 
*	Customizable web interface look and feel of each statistic 
*	Customizable access policies 
*	Data stored in database 
*	Access origin detection and processing 
*	Crawler/spider exclusion 
*	Real time/Batch statistics 
*	Temporal data aggregation 
*	Dimensional aggregations (e.g. Country, Document type, etc) 
*	Charts 
*	Multilanguage support 

You can see the implementation of the Add-on in RepositóriUM
(https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt <https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/>
) where the general (IR level) access/download statistics
(https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/stats?level=general
<https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/stats?level=general&type=access&page=do
wnviews-series> &type=access&page=downviews-series) and individual
access/download statistics (eg, http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803) are
publicly available. 

Best Regards,

 

 

Eloy Rodrigues

Universidade do Minho - Serviços de Documentação

Campus de Gualtar - 4710 - 057 Braga 

Telefone: + 351 253604150; Fax: + 351 253604159

Campus de Azurém - 4800 - 058 Guimarães

Telefone: + 351 253510168; Fax: + 351 253510117

 

 

 

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