Sorry, I assumed everyone magically knew what I was thinking about :) The University of Minho produced a stats package a while back which has proved popular, it can be found at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//StatisticsAddOn. We do use it but I do have some reservations as outlined before.
Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6515208 > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Marlow [mailto:marlow.and...@googlemail.com] > Sent: 02 February 2009 12:22 > To: Robin Taylor > Cc: Kim Shepherd; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading dspace DB from other > applications - tangent! > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Robin Taylor > <robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Hi Kim, > > Apologies for sort of hijacking your thread, I have > renamed the title to allow separate replies. It sounds to me > like you have taken a similar approach to the Minho guys > > > who? eh? > > > > in that you take the dspace log as your starting point > for compiling the stats. In fact if you are not familiar with > their package it would be worth your while having a look. > > > URL, please? > > > > Whilst this is an attractive approach in that you don't > have to mess around with the existing Dspace code, I have > some reservations about its reliability. To date the log > message format has been pretty well maintained, but in an > Open Source environment where patches, plugins, etc could > come from various sources I am not confident that will always > be the case. > > > I agree. the log record would have to be formally specified. > > > > 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. > > > Sorry if I am going over old ground here but its just > come onto my radar so I have only just started paying attention. > > Thanks, Robin. > > > > -- > Regards, > > Andrew M. > http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk > > > -- 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
