Hi Ammar – the IRUSdata service (beta) being developed by Jisc provides download info at ‘item’ and ‘file’ level -
http://jusp.jisc.ac.uk/irusdata
On a related note I’m doing a bit of analysis of altmetrics from data repositories which will require a repository to be minting DOI’s and to be registered with Altmetric.com, see here for a bit more info -
https://blog.library.leeds.ac.uk/blog/roadmap/post/509
Thanks
Nick
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Subject: Data download/usage statistics
Hi everyone,
I was wondering how you are monitoring download statistics for research data? Currently at Aston our repository is based on Eprints and downloads are measured per file. This effectively means that datasets with a greater number of files
deposited will potentially get more downloads than those with fewer files. This will lead to inaccurate and biased statistics.
One method we have thought of is creating a single zip file for each dataset, this way we can more accurately compare downloads between datasets. However I am interested in how others are monitoring download statistics and if they have
had similar issues
Many thanks
Ammar
Ammar Wahid
Research Data Management Specialist
Library Services
Aston University
Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/ResearchData
0121 204 4765 .