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Introducing the IRUSdataUK pilotDavid Kernohan, Paul Needham

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Research Data Metrics for Usage

» Project page on Jisc website: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/research-data-metrics-for-usage

» Project blog: http://rdmetrics.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

Introducing the IRUSdataUK pilot

COUNTER-compliantdownload metrics

(IRUSdataUK)Pilot/alpha

phase

Data citation metrics

Discovery phase

Engagement with linked external work (NISO…)

Currently with data from:LSEEdinburghBathHuddersfieldHullReadingSouthamptonUKDS…Expert Reference Group

» Introducing the »IRUSdata-UK pilot

Paul Needham, Cranfield University

Jisc Webinar – Wednesday 24th February 2016

IRUSdata-UK: aim

»Enable UK data repositories to create/share/expose usage statistics based on a global standard – COUNTER (http://www.projectcounter.org/)

»Statistics are produced on the same basis as scholarly publishers› Following the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources› Raw download usage data is filtered to remove robots and double clicks

»Comparable, Reliable, Trustworthy, Authoritative

IRUSdata-UK: background

»PIRUS/PIRUS2 (2009 – 2011)› Publisher and Institution Repository Usage Statistics project› http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/› Aimed to develop a global standard to enable the recording, reporting and consolidation

of online usage statistics for individual journal articles hosted by Institutional Repositories, Publishers and others

»IRUS-UK (2012 - )› Institutional Repository Usage Statistics service› Jisc-funded national aggregation service, providing COUNTER-compliant usage statistics

for all types of content downloaded from participating UK institutional repositories»IRUSdata-UK›Data (of whatever type found in repositories)

IRUSdata-UK: how are data gathered and processed?

» Simple method to gather raw download data: when a download occurs, a message sent to the IRUS server with some basic details

» Accomplished by adding a small piece of code to repository software, which employs the ‘Tracker Protocol’

http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/help/toolbox/TrackerProtocol-V3-2014-04-22.pdf» Implementation:

› Patches for DSpace (1.8.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x) and Plug-ins for Eprints (3.2.x or greater)

› Implementation guidelines for Fedora› Advice on a case by case basis for other softwares

IRUSdata-UK: how are data gathered and processed?

» Raw data sent as OpenURL-like key/value pairs:› 155.245.69.12 › rft.artnum=oai%3Areshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk%3A850856 › svc_dat=http%3A%2F%2Freshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk%2F850856%2F6%2FMayoral_London_2012_-

_Yougov_P_Gibson_London_Post.pdf   › req_id=urn%3Aip%3A95.108.132.183   › req_dat=Mozilla%2F5.0+(compatible%3B+YandexBot%2F3.0%3B+%2Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fyandex.com

%2Fbots)› rfr_id=reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk › url_tim=2015-11-19T10%3A29%3A13Z   › url_ver=Z39.88-2004

» Suite of ingest scripts process daily logs containing raw data, following the COUNTER CoP, and insert COUNTER-compliant statistics into a relational database

IRUSdata-UK: how are stats exposed?

» Web User Interface - The IRUSdata-UK Portal› Access currently behind authentication/authorisation

challenge › Initial set of views and reports, slicing and dicing stats from

the IRUSdata database› Reports can be downloaded as CSV/TSV files

» SUSHI service (http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi) › SOAP service/XML› Defines automated request and response model for

harvesting e-resource usage data» SUSHI Lite API (

http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/sushi_lite/) › Restful(ish)/http get/JSON› Allows retrieval of stats snippets to be embedded into

Repository (and other) web pages

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Home

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Views

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Views

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Views

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Reports

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Reports

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Reports

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Reports

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Search

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Search results

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Item Stats

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Metadata Views

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Metadata Views

IRUSdata-UK Portal : Metadata Reports

IRUSdata-UK: now and going forward

» As of now we have› A method of collecting raw download data from data

repositories› Ingest procedures that convert raw data into COUNTER

statistics› 8 pilot repositories› An initial, skeletal portal displaying statistics

» Going forward › We are actively working to engage additional repositories to

participate in the pilot– A developer able to provide technical advice and assistance

› We’ll be developing extra views and reports and functionality– based on stakeholder feedback – as our understanding of requirements grows

› And ultimately (we hope!) a fully fledged service as part of the overall RDM initiative

Thank you!

Any questions?

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What’s in it for you?

» Be added to our list of centres to be supported in sending live data to IRUSdataUK!

» Access COUNTER-compliant download data and reports.

» For common platforms such as ePrints and dSpace this is very simple…

» … though we are very interested in more complex situations.

Become an IRUSdataUK test centre!

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Contact us

David Kernohan

Senior Co-Design ManagerJisc Research Futures Teamdavid.kernohan@jisc.ac.uk

Introducing the IRUSdataUK pilot