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Please excuse the ignorance of an IR novice... I would like to ask colleagues about the kind of 'internal' statistical analysis tools that are provided by open source IR software systems. At University of Botswana, where we are now beginning to investigate implementation of an IR, it is a factor for us that the IR be able to provide immediate statistics about the University's research performance, which we can also link to the institutional performance management system: e.g. to find out easily which authors have self-archived which papers within what timeframe; which papers have been produced in the area of environment science; how many peer reviewed articles have been self-archived; how many conference papers and so on. What kind of administrative analysis can be done with the basic IR software, and what extra functions are available with a statistical Add-on? We would greatly appreciate the benefit of anyone's experience. Gemma Bentley Senior Archivist University of Botswana -----Original Message----- From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eloy Rodrigues Sent: 11 May 2006 03:52 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: DSpace Statistics Add-on 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 Add-on to DSpace, related with Statistics, that we already use in our Repository for 2 months. This Add-on (see description below) is available at: http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn <http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn> The 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 Add-on to the DSpace platform, is responsible for the gathering, processing and presentation of access, content and administrative statistics generated by DSpace usage. It was developed based on the principles and some of the components of the statistics application created and released by ANU. 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. Important features of the Statistics system: * Real time processing of event logs * Database based stored mechanism of statistics * Real time detection and processing of access country origin * Semi-real time detection and exclusion of crawlers * Definition of user Access policies at individual statistic and data level * Customizable statistics queries * Customizable web interface look and feel of each statistic 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/sdum/stats?level=general&type=access&group=1&no-form=true&no-menu=true) 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 Tel: +351 253 60 41 50; Fax - 253 60 41 59 Campus de Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães Tel: +351 253 51 01 19; Fax - 253 51 01 17