2. ● OpenAIRE infrastructure and Usage Statistics Service.
● Usage Data Collection strategies.
● Using Piwik for tracking and analytics.
● Applying COUNTER rules.
● Metrics in the Repository Manager Dashboard.
● Relation to Open Metrics and Next Generation Metrics.
Overview
3. • A pan-European Research Information platform to
monitor OA research outcomes from EC and other
national funders.
• Research analytics tools to promote new scientific
metrics & support evidence-based decision-making.
• Implementation of an OpenAIRE usage statistics
service for usage data collected from data providers.
OpenAIRE 2020
4. ● Task in OpenAIRE2020 covers:
○ aligning policies and standards for gathering and sharing of usage data
-> guidelines
○ considering legal aspects (data protection / data privacy)
○ relating usage statistics to other kinds of metrics
○ collecting and processing of usage data and producing consolidated,
standards-based usage statistics
● Task team: Athena Research Center, University of
Bielefeld, University of Minho, Jisc IRUS-UK,
Couperin + NOADs
Usage Statistics in OpenAIRE
5. ● OpenAIRE collects from 980 compatible data providers
~23 Mio documents
● currently 32 active data providers participating in
Usage statistics + IRUS-UK
● Usage statistics deployment under cc-0.
○ in OpenAIRE dashboard, portal and API.
Usage Statistics in the OpenAIRE Infrastructure
6. ● Tracking of views and downloads / collecting
COUNTER reports
○ Push or Pull collection workflows.
● Anonymisation of IP-addresses.
● Metadata de-duplication enables accumulation of
views and downloads for same documents
● COUNTER Code of Practice compatibility.
○ standards based usage statistics.
○ enables comparability with statistics from other data sources.
Usage Statistics Service Features
7. • World's leading open-source analytics platform.
• Valuable insights into website traffic and visitors activity.
• Piwik collects and stores PII (personally identifiable
information).
• Keeps full data ownership and can control who has access.
• Robot filtering plugin.
• Compliant with EU regulations.
• Recommended by privacy organizations such as ULD
(Germany) and CNIL (France).
Piwik Analytics platform
10. • An institutional repository is registered in Piwik.
• Server side tracking: Plugins (Dspace) or patches
(Eprints) using Piwik’s HTTP API.
• Usage Activity is tracked and logged at Piwik
platform in real time.
• Ιnformation is transferred offline, using Piwik’s API,
to OpenAIRE’s DBs for statistical analysis.
• Statistics are deployed via OpenAIRE’s Portal or
Sushi-Lite API.
Tier-1: Push Usage Statistics Tracking Workflow
12. ● Usage events can be considered privacy-sensitive
information (user-agent, ip-address, ...)
● Usage statistics services must comply with
data protection laws and regulations for both
usage data- and service-providers
○ but legal situation differs between the countries
○ OpenAIRE must comply with the EU-General Data Protection
Regulation
● Tracking plugins issued by OpenAIRE anonymize
usage data already on the client-side
Data Protection Aspects
15. • Applying data processing rules according to
COUNTER Code of Practice:
• ie. counting requests depending on session duration, tracing double-
clicks
• Bot filtering
• Piwik Bot Plugin
• COUNTER Robots Working Group
• Link of usage event with metadata record in
OpenAIRE
• Accumulate views and counts of de-duplicated
records
Cleaning and Consolidation
17. • Gathering of consolidated statistics reports from
aggregation services, such as IRUS-UK, using protocols
such as SUSHI-Lite.
• Statistics are stored to OpenAIRE’s DB for statistical
analysis.
• Statistics are deployed via OpenAIRE’s Portal or Sushi-
Lite API.
Tier-2: Collecting (Pull) Consolidated Usage Statistics
Reports
26. ● Available as beta with the help of IRUS-UK
○ http://beta.services.openaire.eu/usagestats/sushilite/
● Supports COUNTER R4 compatible reports:
○ Article Reports (AR) and Book Reports (BR) using identifiers like
openaire, doi, oai-record-id
○ Item Reports (IR)
○ Repository Reports (RR) using identifiers issued by OpenAIRE or
OpenDOAR
○ Journal Reports (JR) using identifiers like ISSN
SUSHI-Lite Interface
28. • Quantitative indicators for research
• Governance
• Management
• Assessment
• Dimensions
• Robust metrics in terms of accuracy and scope;
• Humble metrics recognizing that quantitative evaluation should support qualitative,
expert assessment;
• Open and Transparent metrics;
• Diverse metrics by field in order to support the plurality of research and researcher career
paths across the system;
• Reflexible metrics for recognising, anticipating and updating the systemic and potential
effects of indicators.
OpenAIRE: A Usage Statistics Hub for
Responsible Metrics
29. • Standardization: following COUNTER Code of
Practice
• by update to COUNTER R5
• by contribution to COUNTER Robots Working Group
• Put usage statistics into context with conventional
and alternative metrics and (open) peer review
Considering the HLEG Altmetrics
Recommendations
30. ● Develop Piwik plugins for other Repository platforms
(eg. Fedora, Samvera)
● Promote the service to content provider managers
● Support national usage statistics initiatives to
become a node in OpenAIRE Usage Statistics
● Contribute to the Open Metrics concept and vision
● Activities in OpenAIRE-Advance starting in 2018:
○ support LA Referencia to set up a regional usage statistics network and
interlink
○ working towards Open Metrics
Next Steps
31. ● Standardize usage statistics to enable assessment of research impact
○ Standardize usage statistic metrics across OpenAIRE and EOSC-hub
○ Collaborate with RDA (e.g. Make Data Count BoF working group)
○ Promote common guidelines to and across communities
○ Take EC rules and GDPR regulations into account
● Enable the collection/aggregation of usage stats from content providers
○ Adopt OpenAIRE and EOSC-hub services for collecting user statistics, services in scope:
■ EGI: Accounting System, AppDB
■ EUDAT: DPMT, B2SHARE, B2FIND, B2SAFE
○ Adopt OpenAIRE Usage Statistics Services to collect user stats for all products of
science
■ e.g. literature, datasets, software, research objects
■ Integrating with EOSC-hub services for usage statistics/metrics
Collaboration with EOSC-hub