That certainly sounds like a step in the right direction, for my purposes at least. I guess its a bit premature for anyone to have contributed a stats module based on this as yet so I'd better see if I can convince my boss of the merits of writing something.
Thanks, Robin. Quoting "Mark H. Wood" <mw...@iupui.edu>: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:21:54PM +0000, Andrew Marlow wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Robin Taylor <robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: >> > So my question is, are there any current/planned solutions that integrate >> > the compiling of stats into the heart of the Dspace code ? >> I hope not. Or if there is I hope that using logfiles will still be >> supported. IMO the builtin reports will never be enough for the needs of >> some people. It's great to provide some reports out of the box and I hope >> that over time this will include COUNTER-compliant reports. But my DSpace >> definitely has needs noone else knows about. > > I just committed a small patch to 1_5_x which passes log-type > information to a configurable class whenever a bitstream, item, > collection, or community is viewed. It doesn't do statistics itself, > but is meant as a standard place to hook statistical (or other) code > into DSpace for taking notice of view events without having to patch > the stock code. Would that serve? > > I think that the needs of different sites are too diverse for a single > one-size-fits-all stat. subsystem, at least for now and possibly > forever, but I hope that a stream of generic usage events will make it > possible to try different addons with little effort, ease the > maintenance of stat. packages, and assist the integration of new ones. > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu > Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
