[Dspace-tech] Reporting/Repository metrics

2011-07-21 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, my repository managers are looking for reports on the contents of communities and collections, total items, kinds of items (articles, dissertations, web sites, etc.), formats of bitstreams, etc. I know: curation tasks are good for this sort of thing (in fact, one task already does bitstream for

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reporting/Repository metrics

2011-07-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
Whenever someone says, "I want reports," I think: well, what you *should* want is data that you can put into your favorite reporting tools. We have a little servlet that gives a snapshot of a handful of basic overall metrics to slot into our "library dashboard". See DS-552 for my approach. Some

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reporting/Repository metrics

2011-07-22 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, Mark, you are correct, this is what we wanted/needed. Thanks! -- HARDY POTTINGER University of Missouri Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ "No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back." --Turkish proverb On 7/22/11 8:35 AM, "Mark H. Wood" wrote: >Whe