Hi Alice, > During the DuraSpace webinar on September 30, it was mentioned that > the statistics for DSpace would be enhanced in 1.6, but the speaker > was unable to elaborate in what ways. He said the specific features > would probably be hammered out at the User Group meeting in October. > > So I’m wondering… do we know? Thanks!
As the release co-ordinator for 1.6, I'll explain what is coming with the new stats, and give a brief update about the general progress of 1.6. As you know, better statistics was the the number one feature in the community survey of the most wanted new features for 1.6. Mark Diggory and other staff members from @mire (atmire.com) have written a new statistics collection and query service based on solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ ). This allows real-time collection of events (item views, file downloads, searches) to be stored, indexed, and then quickly searched. In addition it has the ability to record extra information such as the geographic location of the user based on their IP address. At present the statistics collection works well, and the user interfaces are being developed. @mire are contributing the XMLUI interface, while Kim Shepherd from the Library Consortium of New Zealand (http://www.lconz.ac.nz/) has begun work on a JSPUI interface. An example of an early test of the XMLUI interface can be seen at http://testathon.net/xmlui/handle/123456789/31 You'll notice that as you refresh the page, the statistics update. It is likely that 1.6 will only contain basic reporting functions, but with the inclusion of solr and the event collection framework, we can build new and better reports in subsequent versions. Feedback on the initial release will be important for the community to decide what reports need to be created for future versions. It will also be possible to write custom local reports by querying the solr indexes directly. We also hope to release a tool to transfer legacy dspace.log file statistics into solr so that you do not lose any of your current statistics. The current statistics system will remain - its future has yet to be decided. Once the statistics system has been finished to an acceptable standard, we'll move to a testing phase and run a testathon / bug hunt. The whole community will be invited and encouraged to make use of some test servers that will be setup, or to test on local copies. We'll also be looking for volunteers to perform test upgrades of earlier versions to ensure the upgrade documentation is good. Once that is finished, we'll fix any bugs, perform some further testing, then release 1.6. Some of the other features to make it into 1.6 include: - An embargo framework - A batch metadata editing system - Authority control lists and AJAX lookups - Delegated administrator roles - OAI-PMH harvesting support (to harvest other repositories into your DSpace repository) - A new 'services' infrastructure - OpenSearch support - New DSpace command launcher (full support for Unix and Windows systems) - A new zip option for the importer and exporter - Dozens of bug fixes and small improvements Thanks, Stuart Lewis IT Innovations Analyst and Developer Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928 http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
