Introduction

At the DSpace User Group Meeting 2005 in Cambridge there was some interest in developing statistics reporting for DSpace to a greater degree.

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There are a number of points to consider before getting too deep into development. These are listed below, please add any comments/ideas/additional issues.

Log4j

Should we be thinking about replacing log4j, overloading/extending it, leaving it as it is?

In cases where log4j is writing to the same file from different VMs it would be more advised we have a socket based logging service. – MarkDiggory 08:31, 3 November 2006 (EST)

Combining and Improving Existing Statistics Packages

Is there a way we can address all 3 of the above statistics types in one package?

Achieving Modularity

We should make this package totally modular, in part as an experiment in modularisation of DSpace.

Can we use the new Plug-in Manager for configuring the Statistics module

Database Solution

If we replace log4j, and opt for a database and filesystem solution, what are the issues we may encounter?

An alternate solution would be to keep log4j and use http__--use http://www.dankomannhaupt.de-/projects-/index.html JDBCAppender  solution – MarkDiggory 08:43, 3 November 2006 (EST)

Related Thoughts and Design Issues

StatisticsProposalOne - Some design thoughts by RichardJones

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• RichardJones - Happy to be involved, especially at the architecture stage, and to devote some development time to bringing this up to what we would like to use at Imperial College.
• LiamLynch - Happy to be involved in discussion of architectural aspects, and hopefully the requirements of the Open Repository project for usage stats can be met by a system that is globally applicable, so that we can get involved with moving the development of that forward generally.
• GaryPhillips - Interested in getting more useful usage statistics (view counts) for items and bitstreams by filtering out robots and crawlers, and displaying counts inside DSpace. Mostly lurking until I get more familiar with some possible solutions.
• [ StuartLewis] - Would like to be involved, and is happy to contribute effort.
• [ Mwood] Mark H. Wood- Interested in view counts and robot identification. Using the University of Rochester code now. Looking into alternate robot filtering methods.
• [ PaulNeedham] - Would like to be involved, happy to contribute effort. Worked on the JISC/PAL3 PIRUS Project looking into producing COUNTER-compliant stats for Journal Articles. Developing own stats suite (very rough and ready in PHP) which allow for per author and per collection stats.
• [ gfarrasb] - Interested in applying educational data mining algorithms to obtain information about user actions in DSpace.

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