The presentation from the introducing the IRUSdataUK pilot webinar by David Kernohan and Paul Needham on the 24 February 2016.

1. Introducing the IRUSdataUK pilot
David Kernohan, Paul Needham
25/02/2016
image: cogdog@flickr, cc-by-sa

3. Learn more about “Research at Risk”
»Winter progress update:
http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/12/10/research-at-risk-progress-update/
»Research at Risk page on Jisc website:
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/research-at-risk
» Follow activity and discussion on twitter
» #JiscRDM
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4. 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/
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COUNTER-
compliant
download metrics
(IRUSdataUK)
Pilot/alpha phase
Data citation
metrics
Discovery phase
Engagement with linked external work (NISO…)
Currently with data
from:
LSE
Edinburgh
Bath
Huddersfield
Hull
Reading
Southampton
UKDS
…
Expert Reference Group

5. Introducing the
IRUSdata-UK pilot
Paul Needham, Cranfield University
Jisc Webinar – Wednesday 24th February 2016

6. 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

7. 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, providingCOUNTER-compliant usage statistics for all types of
content downloaded from participating UK institutional repositories
» IRUSdata-UK
› Data (of whatever type found in repositories)

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Home

12. IRUSdata-UK Portal : StatisticsViews

13. IRUSdata-UK Portal : StatisticsViews

14. IRUSdata-UK Portal : StatisticsViews

15. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Reports

16. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Reports

17. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Reports

18. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Statistics Reports

19. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Search

20. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Search results

21. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Item Stats

22. IRUSdata-UK Portal : MetadataViews

23. IRUSdata-UK Portal : MetadataViews

24. IRUSdata-UK Portal : Metadata Reports

25. 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

26. Thank you!
Any questions?

27. 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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28. jisc.ac.uk
Contact us
David Kernohan
Senior Co-Design Manager
Jisc Research FuturesTeam
david.kernohan@jisc.ac.uk
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