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I'm glad to announce that the Reposit�riUM 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
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The original purpose of the Statistics Add-on was to promote
Reposit�riUM 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.
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The Statistics System is an add-on to the 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 Reposit�riUM, the system is
completely adjustable to other environments as its components can
easily be configured, changed or extended, to respond to different
information needs.
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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
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You can see the implementation of the Add-on in Reposit�riUM
(
https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt) where the general (IR level)
access/download statistics(
https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/stats?level=general&type=access&page=do
wnviews-series) and individual access/download statistics (eg,
http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803) are publicly available.
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Eloy Rodrigues
Universidade do Minho - Servi�os de Documenta��o
Campus de Gualtar - 4710 - 057 Braga
Telefone: + 351 253604150; Fax: + 351 253604159
Campus de Azur�m - 4800 - 058 Guimar�es
Telefone: + 351 253510168; Fax: + 351 253510117
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Received on Fri Mar 27 2009 - 17:24:53 GMT