On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 02:12:18PM -0500, Tim Donohue wrote: > The "Administrative Statistics" are the (very old) legacy DSpace > statistics pulled from log files, which pre-dated the Usage Statistics > (based on Solr). They are only generated by running these commandline > options: > > [dspace]/bin/dspace stat-initial > [dspace]/bin/dspace stat-general > [dspace]/bin/dspace stat-monthly > > The only reason they still exist is that the Usage Statistics don't > provide all the same information (yet). The Usage Statistics are much > more accurate in providing usage information (as these legacy, log-based > stats do not filter out spiders or similar). But, the legacy, log-based > stats do provide some unique administrative statistics, like the counts > of the number of actions performed in your DSpace, etc.
[tangent] I don't find the situation confusing at all. Service administrators have different needs than contributors and editors. While the mechanism for gathering and storing sitewide admin. statistics might be improvable, I think we ought to look at bringing them up to date and fleshing them out with other information that admin.s would want. As an example, people interested in the content will appreciate having robot accesses filtered out, but admin.s might profit from seeing filtered and unfiltered counts side by side. Even more so if they can sample these counts mechanically and accumulate them for visualization. Some other stuff I get asked for includes simple counts of how much stuff we have: how many Items, how many Bitstreams, how many image Bitstreams. End users don't care about such things, but senior administrators do. For the future, another thing that our biggest statistical consumers want very much is views aggregated by *author*. I'm looking forward to first-class support for author identities so that we can do this well. [tired old refrain] "Statistics" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. It may not mean the same thing to *anyone*. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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