1. Cooperative Statistics Server
Workshop ‘Valueing your licence: evaluating licences’
Glasgow, September 24th, 2010
Sylvia Weber, University Library JCS Frankfurt
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2. Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS
Overview
Introduction
HeBIS Statistic Server
Building a new System
Platform Scheme
Where does metadata come from?
Publisher‘s SUSHI Power
Environment
Timeline
Where is the beef?
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3. Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS
Introduction
Two regional service providers with different experience and motivation
HeBIS – Consortium, and Library Information System of Hesse
ReDI – Database and Information Service in Baden-Württemberg
Delivering usage data since 1999 (ReDI) and 2004 (HeBIS)
Useful and flexible tools for renewal decisions
Cross-searching publishers
Cross-searching years
Cross-searching libraries
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4. Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS
Introduction
Challenges
Growing amount of usage data for journals, databases and e-books
Growing diversity of publisher‘s formats (COUNTER compliance?)
Growing requirements from users (rights management, local licences)
=> Automatisation extremly needed!
Partnership ReDI & HeBIS
Cooperative software development and shared environment
One project management, timeline and shared personel ressources
Not necessarily one server implementation (different features)
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5. HeBIS Statistic Server
HeBIS Server for consortial licences
14 participating libraries in the HeBIS-Konsortium
55 databases (i.e. EBSCO, Ovid, Thomson Reuters)
16 journal packages with Journals (i.e. Springer, Project Muse)
Statistic server for national licenses since 2008
62 databases (i.e. Gale Cengage, ProQuest)
10 journal archive packages (i.e. Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell)
11 current content licences (i.e. Sage, Oxford University Press)
Over 500 participants!
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6. Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS
Building a new System
Overcome the system‘s „weaknesses“
High manual effort (checking title lists, getting usage reports, editing converterscripts)‏
Datamodel not flexible enough for all kinds of different journal packages
Take a chance on the future
Customizing for COUNTER standards
Harvesting usage data via a SUSHI interface
Ingesting metadata (licence data) via existing reference systems
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7. Platform Scheme SUSHI- Output Server Import Provider Report- Generator
Excel
and other
formats
COUNTER XML
SUSHI-
Server
Output
HTML, CSV, …
Upload
Provider
SUSHI-Server
SUSHI ReportRequest
Import
SUSHI/COUNTER-
Data
Metadata
Report-
Generator
SUSHI Report- Response with COUNTER XML
Titlelists vendors,
EZB, DBIS, ERM, ...?
Import/Input ?
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8. Where does Metadata come from?
Extract metadata from reports (i.e. publishers, platforms)‏
Journals: EISSN / PISSN, title, start volume, end volume, licence package, licence year
Databases: title, licenced segment, licence period, title lists
Other metadata: subject categories, journal pricing, ZDB-ID
Load from existing metadata providers
Journals: EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek)
ZDB (Zeitschriftendatenbank)
Databases: DBIS (Datenbank-Infosystem)
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9. Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS
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10. Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS
Environment
IDE: Eclipse
Language: PHP 5.2
Framework: Yii [
Datenbase: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Datenbase interface: PDO
Development System at HeBIS: Virtual Zone on a Sun Sparc Enterprise T5220 / SunOS 5.10
Evironment of running operations: not declared now
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11. Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS
Timeline
Phase one: to
August Data model / Rights model (draft)
September user workshop
September Data model / Rights model (final)
November user workshop
December Specifications (final)‏
February-May 2011 Implementation of basic features
June-July Usabilty tests and debugging
Phase two: to
Extended functionality (i.e. administration of local licences)
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12. Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS
Where is the Beef?
Automated harvesting of usage data and licence data
Homogenous formats and usability, consistent terms
Provide data more frequently: ingest every month
High flexibility of system and data structure
Export in CSV, HTML, XML (via SUSHI)‏
All relevant data in one place
High variety of reports:
=> Compare usage of different years
=> Compare usage from different participants
=> Compare usage of different products or vendors
Provide administration of local licences
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13. & ReDI Contact and further information sushi@hebis.de
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