An architecture for the aggregation and analysis of scholarly usage data

Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of valueadded services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user privacy, data validity, and the lack of accepted standards for the representation, sharing and aggregation of usage data. This paper presents a technical, standards-based architecture for sharing usage information, which we have designed and implemented. In this architecture, OpenURL-compliant linking servers aggregate usage information of a specific user community as it navigates the distributed information environment that it has access to. This usage information is made OAI-PMH harvestable so that usage information exposed by many linking servers can be aggregated to facilitate the creation of value-added services with a reach beyond that of a single community or a single information service. This paper also discusses issues that were encountered when implementing the proposed approach, ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: JCDL
• Authors: Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel
• Keywords: JCDL 2006, Linking Servers, Usage Data, Usage Information