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Virtually all web servers that provide access to electronic resources record usage events as part of their log files. Such files usually provide detailed information on the documents that have been requested, on the users that have initiated these requests, and on the moments at which these requests took place. One important difficulty is the fact that these logs are usually structured according to a proprietary format. Before usage data from different institutions can be compared in a meaningful and consistent way, the log entries need to be standardised and normalised. Various projects have investigated how such data harmonisation can take place. In the MESUR project, usage data have been standardised by serialising the information from log files as XML files structured according to the OpenURL Context Objects schema (Bollen and Van de Sompel, 2006). This same standard is recommended in the JISC Usage Statistics Final Report. Using this metadata standard, it becomes possible to set up an infrastructure in which usage data are aggregated within a network of distributed repositories. The PIRUS-I project (Publishers and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics), which was funded by JISC, has investigated how such exchange of usage data can take place. An important outcome of this project was a range of scenarios for the "creation, recording and consolidation of individual article usage statistics that will cover the majority of current repository installations" .
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"Developing a global standard to enable the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage statistics for individual journal articles hosted by institutional repositories, publishers and other entities (Final Report)", p.3. < http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/pals3/pirus_finalreport.pdf > |
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