IRStats development

This is IRStats 1 documentation. IRStats 1 is now out of support. You may have been looking for IRStats 2

IRStats Development Goals

Features

• 'Browse View' style public stats.
• Non-public stats accessed via screen plugins.
• Default 'out-the-box' configuration.
• Generalisation to repository reporting tool. Graphs available on e.g. citation counts.
• the ability to see users paths through the site.
• the ability to gather stats about how pages are used in eprints. Example: "how many times is this button used compared to this button" or "does anyone actually use this feature"
• new view, all-time downloads
• new view, like top ten table, but not limited to 10 (very useful according to one repository manager)

Back End

• Full integration with EPrints Configuration.
• Replacement of ChartDirector with an open-source charting package.
• Anonymisation of downloaders to comply with privacy legislation.
• HTML produced with DOM objects (high priority - solves UTF8 issues)
• Import from apache logs

Wishlist

Things which don't need to go in the first release, but we should keep in mind so we don't make them hard to add later.

• Recommender - people who downloaded this paper also looked at....

Bugs

• removing a document leads to loss of stats. Reported by Graham Stone, Huddersfield.