Hi Peter, The short answer is I don't know, but a quick bit of investigation suggests possibly maybe :) . There does appear to be an import facility https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3191589?hl=en-GB , but what is not clear to me at first reading is whether it just allows you to augment existing data, or whether you can upload historical data.
One possible route forward would be to combine the data ourselves for presentation purposes. So read historical data from Solr/ES and combine it with recent data stored in GA. After a few years we might be able to convince administrators to abandon the historical stuff. All possible but a bit messy. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Peter Dietz <pe...@longsight.com> Sent: 24 March 2015 15:34 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: Andrea Schweer; DSpace Developers Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about how we use the 'statistics' Solr core Just to ask a follow up question about Google Analytics. Say I have all of my data (comm, coll, item views, bitstream downloads) for as long as I've been collecting it in SOLR or Elastic Search (many years). Is it possible to write a converter, and push this legacy information to Google Analytics? i.e. GA has bulk ingest API's where I can push legacy/historical events in? Also. What are people thinking would be a safe preservation location for usage events? i.e. for people concerned about resources. Could it be feasible to export all SOLR usage event data to log/usage-event.<date>.log, and then have all new real-time usage events from now on written to usage-event.log. Then when we need to populate a new statistics engine. We could populate it by indexing usage.event.logs >From my perspective, we've got 200GB+ of solr/ES indexes across instances, >plus memory and CPU and ES instances, and it would be nice to outsource this >work. Especially if GA is free. ________________ Peter Dietz Longsight www.longsight.com pe...@longsight.com p: 740-599-5005 x809 On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:06 AM, TAYLOR Robin <robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: Hi Andrea, You are quite right about the download stats, I had forgotten that. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh ________________________________________ From: Andrea Schweer <schw...@waikato.ac.nz> Sent: 16 March 2015 02:31 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: DSpace Developers Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about how we use the 'statistics' Solr core Hi Robin, On 14/03/15 05:22, TAYLOR Robin wrote: > Just a wee point about GA stats with apologies if I am stating the obvious. > You can present data going back as long as you have been collecting it, not > just from the moment you enable the DSpace GA Stats XMLUI aspect. "As long as you have been collecting it" is fine for item page views. But bitstream downloads really is the more interesting measure, and GA knows about these only from when the download-as-GA-event code is enabled, which is DSpace 5 if I remember correctly. That is a bit disappointing to repository managers with download stats in DSpace that go back to 2005. As far as I know, it isn't possible to bulk update GA with retrospective data. cheers, Andrea -- Dr Andrea Schweer IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
