Investigate possibility of using COUNTER standard for reporting and sharing Dataverse download stats

[eaquigley]

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Author Name: Kevin Condon (@kcondon)
Original Redmine Issue: 3987, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3987
Original Date: 2014-05-16

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Came from a user who is installing their own dataverse, see RT # 171127

Are the download statistics of DVN compatible with the counter standard
(http://www.projectcounter.org/) or is it planned to be counter compatible.

[eaquigley]

@posixeleni and I talked a bit about this since she has knowledge of COUNTER. @posixeleni recommended we look into using https://impactstory.org/ since it is for data.

[eaquigley]

@posixeleni remember we were going to plan a meeting with impact story once you were back. should we still do that?

[posixeleni]

I will follow-up with them to see if they can meet with us.

[posixeleni]

@eaquigley and I spoke with Almetrics about using their repository badges to track metrics for datasets in Dataverse.

They pointed us to this small piece of code which would need to be embedded into each dataset page and would just the section to be populated

<div data-badge-popover="right" data-badge-type="medium-donut" data-doi="10.5072/FK2/PTU9PK" data-hide-no-mentions="true" data-hide-less-than="1" class="altmetric-embed"></div>

A very helpful description as to what altmetrics offer is included here: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17147

[posixeleni]

Created a new issue to track Altmetric #2899 and keeping this one for Counter, since they each deal with different kinds of metrics.

Email from Scholars Portal (Alan) had some useful info for us to look into Counter more for download stats

Ran across this information from JISC about creating COUNTER compliant statistics related to data downloading.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/irus

I have not looked at the usage statistics that are available from Dataverse, but imagine that this will become more important to demonstrate the scope of data reuse in relation to new funder requirements for data preservation.

[posixeleni]

http://www.slideshare.net/JiscRDM/research-data-metrics-for-usage (another item to read when working on COUNTER)

[jggautier]

Dataverse plans to support and display Make Data Count (https://makedatacount.org/) standardized usage metrics as part of a recently-awarded Sloan Foundation grant. The standard is closely aligned with the COUNTER standard, with adjustments that account for how people organize, store and access datasets.

Since an issue's been opened for that effort (#4821), I'm going to close this issue.