Good question.
There are cases, where you can download journal articles as page images,
e.g. for the retrodigitized part
of the PROLA archive. These would certainly still classify as textual
resource, and what you count, is
accessing the HTML Wrapper that presents you with the thumbnail image
mosaic of the article. You
would not report here downloads of the individual page images.
(Technically, the HTML wrapper is not
different from a normal HTML view of a journal article where you have
illustrations embedded as images.
This shows that the presentation format of the articles must allow to
access articles as a full-content unit,
e.g. an abstract with a clickable list of individual page numbers
appended would not qualify to get a
website counter compliant, because the unit for textual resources has to
be the article.
If you do not find further references to non-textual resources in the
main document, it is because what
is provided there are only samples for the formats of the required
reports, plus links to the full XML
schemes. The core of the standard is now in the XML schemes and in the
COUNTER Schema Data
Element Values to be found at
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/values/ . These are also used to
in connection with the SUSHI-Protocol.
There you'll find everything you need. It's all quite abstract but that
is exactly what is necessary for
scalability. To quote the standard (main document):
"Rather than enumerate the allowed values within the schema, these values
are defined outside of the schema to allow new reports and metrics to be
added
without needing to update the schema each time."
Vendors can report non textual resource items through the optional
addtional reports such as Journal
Report 3 that provide more granualar information on journal usage. You
find an an example in
Appendix H, Optional additional usage reports. See also the Guidelines
on implementation,
Appendix D, Categories of content covered by the COUNTER usage reports.
The corresponding
SUSHI Reports, including COUNTER sample reports are available under
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/reports/
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library
megan_hurst schrieb:
> Hello Lib-Stats list members,
>
> I am looking for any suggestions from list members on logging/reporting of
> non-HTML/non-PDF library resources in electronic format. Are you aware of any
> ways in which libraries are currently addressing issues of reporting digital
> usage beyond HTML or PDF versions of e-Books, journals, articles with COUNTER
> or other library usage reporting standards?
>
> One example would be reporting on non-HTML and non-PDF full text in an online
> viewer similar to Google Books.
>
> Another would be reporting on usage of digital image or video collections.
>
> I found a reference to non-textual resources in Release 3 of COUNTER Code of
> Practice at http://www.projectcounter.org/r3/Release3D9.pdf
> <http://www.projectcounter.org/r3/Release3D9.pdf>. A glossary in the document
> defines the following terminology –
>
> Full-content unit:
> Journals: full-text article; Books: Minimum requestable unit, which may be the
> entire book or a section thereof; Reference Works: content unit appropriate to
> resource (eg dictionary definitions, encyclopedia articles, biographies, etc)
>
> Non-textual resources:
> Non-textual material that is published in an online journal, book or other
> publication that is often associated with a full text article, encyclopedia
> entry, or other textual material. COUNTER allows four categories of
> non-textual resource: image, video, audio and other.
>
> COUNTER does not include further references to Full-content unit or
> Non-textual in the standard. How would COUNTER or other library-accepted
> reporting standard be used to log/report the equivalent of full-text views for
> other (e.g. non-textual) content types?
>
> I am aware of general web stats tools, but am looking for something more
> scalable and standards-oriented that can be used to normalize reporting across
> content types. After reading postings on this list, I realize this may be a
> naive dream, but thought it worth posing anyway.
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and attention!
>
> Meg Hurst
> University of Rhode Island
> Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
>
>
>
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