1st month progress report

The first month is over and we have achieved the following:
A questionnaire has been sent out to all the 12 Welsh Repository Network partners to find out their level of awareness and use (if any) of their repository statistics. Repository managers were asked to provide a list of the statistical information they could obtain from their repository software’s statistics view, and the date range of the data. They were also asked if their repository was enabled for Google Analytics, and if they used it to collect statistics. This information has been compiled in a spreadsheet, along with actual data wherever available.

As a result, six ‘core’ institutional repositories have been selected on the basis of software suitability, available data, and ease of access to the repository servers. Three of these will need an upgrade – this is being arranged. The core repository managers have been contacted and asked to form a ‘focus group’, which will be involved in the qualitative evaluation of the recommendation service.

We attended the JISCAD start up meeting in Birmingham on 2nd March: the problem solving session was very useful.