Greetings, DSpace community, I want to thank everyone once again for last week's stimulating discussion and impressive chat turnout! I have a new question for everyone this week, pursuant to some discussion on the lists:
"Statistics" are one of the commonest requests for a new DSpace feature. Without further specification, however, it's hard to know what data to present, since there are no standards or even clear best practices in this area. What statistics do the following groups of DSpace users need to see, and in what form are the statistics best presented to them? Depositors End-users (defined as "people examining items and downloading bitstreams from a DSpace instance;" we may have to refine this further in discussion) DSpace repository managers (as distinct from systems administrators) What else should developers keep in mind as they implement this feature? Because it would be nice to reach a working consensus on this (unlike last week's question, which was intended to pull out as broad a selection of needs as possible), I think we should start discussing immediately. I encourage all respondents to respond TO THE MAILING LIST instead of to me. I will be holding another chat to discuss the weekly question. It will take place Wednesday 27 August in the DSpace IRC chatroom, #dspace on irc.freenode.net. I apologize to West Coast (USA) community members for last week's unconscionably early hour; we'll try 10 am US Central (11 am Eastern, 4 pm GMT) this week, and we may go even later next week if our European community members can stand it. For those who don't normally use IRC, there are two easy web gateways. One is mibbit.com; the other is specific to our channel and can be found at <http://dspace.testathon.net/cgi-bin/irc.cgi>. I encourage all of us to become familiar with the channel; it is a source of real-time technical information from DSpace developers, as well as a community in its own right. Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech