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My comments are in reply to Jennifer and David's 8/4 message posted in the General section which started: "A number of your research projects proposed analysis of user statistics for the AMICO Library. RLG plans to begin user logging with the launch of the full library. We'd like to start to refine the requirements for logging, so that RLG will be able to (try) to collect the data you hope to use." I wasn't sure exactly what feedback you wanted from us, but maybe the below will get a dialogue going so we can reach a consensus.
1) How many RIT accesses are made of the AMICO Library (by day, month, etc.); i.e. a count by RIT IP 129.21?
2) Stats on what RIT users search by; i.e. # of searches by creator, title, materials/technique, subject, date, etc. by month
(or some regular interval).
3) Stats on which objects in the AMICO library they're looking at,
e.g. "Starry Night" was viewed 547 times by RIT users in March, 1999.
Perhaps just give us a count of the top 100 objects searched by RIT users rather than all 20,000!
4) A list of the most frequently accessed search/index terms, e.g. "Van Gogh" searched as creator 1050 times in March, 1999.
5) Of the 4 images sizes, what size images are RIT users retrieving most frequently; e.g. RIT users retrieved:
"snapshot" size images 5,689 times in March, 1999
"inspection" size images 7,899 times in March, 1999
"presentation" size images 8,956 times in March, 1999.
This would give us a sense of what image sizes are most heavily used.
6) Sample searches by RIT users would give us an idea of what their searches are like?
Not sure about how many; maybe a random sample from each week of the month or all searches on a particular day of each week.
7) How many times did RIT users NOT get a hit for an index term and what was the term
(i.e. does the library NOT contain what RIT users are looking for)?
Again, not a list of ALL terms, but a list of the top 100 terms not found.
8) How many times did they save images to a notebook?
What we're looking for here is some kind of statistic to give us a sense of whether RIT users are using the notebook feature.
9) How many times did they select the "print" option? Same as above: are RIT users doing lots of printing?
10) List user browsers with versions and a count of how many times that browser/version was used during the month,
e.g. RIT users seached the AMICO Library with:
Netscape Communicator v.4.01 12,566 times during March
Netscape Communicator v.4.04 15,687 times during March
Internet Explorer v.4.0 2,005 times during March.
Then RIT can know what browser/versions users access the AMICO Library with.
11) Any measurement of response time, e.g. from when the user requested the AMICO item to when RLG transmitted it,
by hour/day of the week. I realize you can't measure delays from RLG to RIT over the Net.
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