On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 08:44:11PM +0000, DSpace Technical Support wrote: > Hi Sylvester, > > This is an frequent request for DSpace. But, unfortunately, the answer at > this time is that detailed Statistics reports do not yet exist in DSpace. > > As DSpace is built/maintained by it's community of users, we've yet to locate > and institution/volunteer interested in helping to build such detailed > reports. Part of the reason is that *statistics are very difficult to > capture with good accuracy* and reporting tools can be very complex to build > or maintain.
May I butt in to add that "statistics" means very different things to different people. Serving them all is not only a difficult problem but a very large and often ill-defined one. The most common request is for usage statistics: how are the contents being consumed over time? But you also ask for submission statistics: what is the behavior of contributors to the repository? When I'm wearing my system-administrator hat, I want to know how and where the repository is growing, and what types of files are coming in, and the proportions of various file formats, and how all that is changing. I also want to keep an eye on the fill-rate of the assetstore(s) and the Solr cores. These is not quite the same thing as submission statistics. > At this time, if you need more detailed reporting, you'd probably want to > use/enable Google > Analytics<https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/DSpace+Google+Analytics+Statistics>. > There's also some early discussion about supporting other Analytics > services like Matomo (but no official work yet): > https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8414 It's very difficult for DSpace > to compete with the capabilities of external statistical tools, so these are > the best options for detailed reporting at this time. > > Tim > > On Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 6:34:28 AM UTC-5 chiko...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, is there a way for dspace 7 or comming version to have a mechanism to get > analytical reports community wise, collection wise and item wise. > > It would be nice if we could be able to know how many and what items are > uploaded by who over a certain period of time such as daily, monthly or > quarterly basis. If you're doing *exploratory* statistics, you may be better off extracting raw cases and loading them into a general-purpose statistical package, where you can slice and re-slice the data as you require. When one is exploring a dataset, one rarely knows what will be interesting, or how to abstract it, until it is found. This is something that DSpace could support better without a lot of effort. > Also dspace should provide a report on how many people have visited a > specific collection and how many actually downloaded some items. > > I have been asked to provide a report to the management about dspace usage, i > could only see statistics which display just the number of visitors and their > locations but not much details to make a nice and rich report for management > purposes. Now, right there is where I would be asking sharp questions, if the request had come to me, such as: do you want to learn about visitors or visits? Because it may not be possible to uniquely identify anonymous visitors. I should mention that there are businesses which support DSpace and offer their own statistical packages. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 library.indianapolis.iu.edu -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/ZmdFdV9bgH23q9H9%40iu.edu.
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