The initial purpose of the Statistics Add-on was to promote RepositóriUM - Institutional Repository of Universidade of Minho and author self(or mediated)-archiving, by demonstrating the worldwide accessibility and usage (access/downloads) of archived documents. It was also intended to provide usage, content and administrative statistics to the community/collection administrators or coordinators.
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 the development was made to respond to the specific needs of RepositóriUM, the system is completely adjustable to other environments, because their components can easily be configured, changed or extended, to respond to different information needs.
With the release of the current version 3.0 of the Stats System the main focus was solving some architectural issues of version 2.1, primarily:
The current version of the Add-on and system documentation (including installation documentation) is available in:
You can see the implementation of the Add-on in RepositóriUM where the general access/download statistics and individual access/download statistics (eg, http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803) are publicly available.