DSpace Statistics

DSpace Statistics A.R.D. Prasad DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute [email protected]

Why Statistics ?  Usage statistics justifies the expenditure on a digital repository  The popularity of a repository is reflected by its usage  Serves as a feed back mechanism to improve your repository 2 of 17

 DSpace 1.6 and later versions use the Apache SOLR  Each time a page or file gets requested, this request is being logged  Statistics are generated from files in – [dspace]/log directory 3 of 17

 [dspace]/log/ directory − contains log files − dspace.log.yyyy-mm-dd: Main DSpace log file. This is where the DSpace code writes log of events and errors. − One can control the verbosity of this by editing the [dspace- source]/config/templates/log4j.properties file and then running \"ant init_configs“.  [dspace]/reports/ directory – contains reports generated by statistical report generator as html files 4 of 17

Modify Parameters in ...  [dspace]/solr/statistics/conf/schema.xml contains parameters regarding what should be stored  [dspace]/config/log4j.properties parameters regarding how and where log files are created 5 of 17

 The following statistics are collected from log files  Number of items archived  Number of item views  User logins  Actions performed  Search terms used  Workflow information 6 of 17

Configuring Stat System  Edit file [dspace]/config/dstat.cfg to generate reports  Start Year and Month  The various actions like – Community, collections, item, bitstream views, items archived, number of logins etc.  Exclude puff words from the list of words searched  Items archived by type – theses, preprints etc. 7 of 17

Cron Jobs # Cleanup Web Spiders from DSpace Statistics Solr Index at 01:00 every day 0 1 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace stats-util -i # Re-Optimize DSpace Statistics Solr Index at 01:30 every day 30 1 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace stats-util -o # To periodically generate statistics and reports $DSPACE/bin/dspace stat-general $DSPACE/bin/dspace stat-monthly $DSPACE/bin/dspace stat-report-general $DSPACE/bin/dspace stat-report-monthly 8 of 17

URL to View Statistics  Default: admin login is required to view statistics  http://localhost:8080/xmlui/statistics  http://localhost:8080/jspui/statistics Cont... 9 of 17

URL to View Statistics  To allow anybody to view statistics  In dspace.cfg  Change ‘report.public = false’ to ‘report.public=true’ 10 of 17

http://localhost:8080/solr/#/statistics  By default Solr can only be accessed on the host machine running dspace. Hence the usage of ‘localhost’ in the URL  By default, one can not access solr from any other machine 11 of 17

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Stats on jspui 13 of 17

Google Analytics  Time visitors spent on the site  Where did they come from  Search Terms they used  Country of the visitors  How may pages they visited  What was the starting and ending page 14 of 17

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Registering with Google Analytics Go to  http://www.google.com/analytics/  Singin has pull down menu, choose ‘Google Analytics’ using your google mailid  Click ‘Sign Up’  Add new account and provide the website/DSpace address which you want to track  Accept Google agreement and get the tracking ID 17 of 17