Developing a Web Analytics Strategy for the National Science Digital Library

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Jones, Casey ^a   Giersch, Sarah ^b   Sumner, Tamara ^c   Wright, Michael ^a   Coleman, Anita ^d   Bartolo, Laura ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b iLumina Digital Library

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 9744259454     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/october2004-coleman     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. NSDL Community Portal - Educational Impact, 〈http://eduimpact.comm. nsdl.org/〉.
2. NSDL Community Portal - Technology, 〈http://technology.comm.nsdl. org/〉.
3. National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program, 〈http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/DUE/programs/ nsdl/〉.
4. Web Metrics Bibliography, 〈http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/archive/ 00000393/〉.
5. ARL E-Metrics, 〈http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/index. html〉.
6. Sun® Microsystems, 〈http://www.sun.com〉.
7. Web Metrics Task Force, 〈http://webmetrics.comm.nsdl.org〉.
8. For a full documentation and reports on the pilot study, see 〈http://eduimpact.comm.nsdl.org/events/?pager=90〉.
9. The Web metrics used by the six pilot study sites included: incoming top-level domains, browser types, referring URLs, number of sessions, pages served, queries conducted and downloads.
10. Reporting problems occurred with needed data not available, lack of time, and technical issues/capabilities.
11. Six sites reported using seven tools to collect the data for the Users and Usage metrics: 1) wusage 7.0; 2) Summary 2.1.1; 3) Sawmill; 4) Netracker; 5) webTrends; 6) in-house; 7) awstats & sourceforge stats.
12. For more information on the joint Standing Committee effort, see 〈http://eduimpact.comm.nsdl.org/events/?pager=225〉.
13. Boardman, Bruce. "Web Analytics Services: Inside Information" in Network & Systems Management Review. August 5, 2004. Available at 〈http://www.nwc.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20003001〉.
14. NSDL Annual Meeting 2004. Available at: 〈http://nsdl.comm.nsdl.org/ 〉.