Category:Metrics
From eotcd
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Web Archive Metrics: Draft Proposal
Web Archive Service Models and Metrics
eotcd Analysis
2009 FDLP Biennial Survey: Question 18b Responses - Updated 15 November 2010
Academic Library Statistics
ARL Supplementary Statistics & COUNTER Usage Statistics
Comparison of ARL, ACRL, NCES (IPEDS) Statistics
Usage Statistics & Measurements for Electronic Resources
- ISO TC46 SC8 WG9 is a working group formed in 2009 to examine the collection of internet resources and quality issues. They intend to write a technical report, with the working title Statistics and Quality Issues for Web Archiving. First meeting in December 2009 in Berlin.
- The use of online information resources is growing rapidly. It is widely agreed by producers and purchasers of information that the use of these resources should be measured in a more consistent way. Librarians want to understand better how the information they buy from a variety of sources is being used; publishers want to know how the information products they disseminate are being accessed. An essential requirement to meet these objectives is an agreed international set of standards and protocols governing the recording and exchange of online usage data. The COUNTER Codes of Practice provide these standards and protocols and are published in full on this website. Currently available are:
- The SUSHI Protocol standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2007, defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework. It is intended to replace the time-consuming user-mediated collection of usage data reports.
- The protocol was designed to be both generalized and extensible, meaning it could be used to retrieve a variety of usage reports. An extension designed specifically to work with COUNTER reports is provided with the standard, as these are expected to be the most frequently retrieved usage reports.
- PIRUS2
- PIRUS2, sponsored by JISC (the United Kingdom Joint Information Systems Committee) builds on the outcomes and recommendations of the original PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) project, also funded by JISC, which was completed in January 2009. The objective of PIRUS2 is to address these issues and by doing so specify standards, protocols, an infrastructure and an economic model for the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage of individual articles hosted by repositories, publishers and other entities.
- The aim of this project is to develop COUNTER-compliant usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any entity (publisher, aggregator, IR, etc.,) that hosts online journal articles and will enable the usage of research outputs to be recorded, reported and consolidated at a global level in a standard way.
- The full report of the original PIRUS project may be found at: PIRUS Final Report (January 2009)
- In 2007, UKSG, in association with the online usage metrics organisation COUNTER, published the results of a wide-ranging study that explored how online journal usage statistics might form the basis of a new metric of journal quality. The study combined a web-based survey of opinion with a series of in-depth interviews with stakeholders from the author, publisher and librarian communities. The aim of these twin avenues of research was to examine the ways in which journal quality is currently assessed, and the degree to which any additional usage-based metrics might prove valuable to each stakeholder community, along with practical ways in which such metrics might be derived and constructed to provide the maximum utility for all, within defined resource constraints.
- Building upon the encouraging reactions revealed in the market research, Stage 2 of the project is developing a programme of data modelling and analysis that will use real usage data from a number of content providers, with the aim of identifying potential candidate metrics for longer term scaled up testing.
- The 2001 revision is intended to provide consortia administrators with the information needed to effectively carry out their responsibilities and to provide vendors a practical framework in which to deliver usage statistics in the current environment. The data elements to be reported have been simplified, while administrative aspects of confidentiality, access, delivery, and report format have been strengthened.
