Using OpenURL Activity Data Project Sheila Fraser, EDINA Middleware: UK OpenURL Router JISC-Funded Project.

Using OpenURL Activity Data Project

Sheila Fraser, EDINAMiddleware: UK OpenURL Router

JISC-Funded Project

Image: Barb Watson http://www.flickr.com/photos/dearbarbz365/4954258961/

Pizza maker

Mmmmm, pizza

Favourite pizza site

Give pizza attributes (mmm, pepperoni with jalapeños)

Delivery instructions

Pizza maker

Pizza maker

The OpenURL Router works like pizza

e.g. on citeulike

Student / researcher:

reference for journal article

Institutional Resolver

Institutional Resolver

Institutional Resolver

Institutional Resolver

Redirect request

openURL request

Publisher

Redirect request to best available source

Institutional Repository

OthersOpenURL

Router

Pizza Logging

Favourite pizza site

Give pizza attributes (mmm, pepperoni)

Delivery instructions

Pizza maker

They know where I live…

Log

OpenURL Router Logging

e.g. on citeulike

Student / researcher:

reference for journal article

Institutional Resolver

Redirect request

openURL request

Redirect request to best available source

Institutional Repository

OpenURL Router

Log: requestslookups

button images

Log

Pizza Data

Favourite pizza site

They know what I eat…

Log

Pizza maker

Do you want pepperoni with jalapeños again?

Delivery instructions

OpenURL Router Data

e.g. on citeulike

Student / researcher:

reference for journal article

openURL request

OpenURL Router

Log request: activity of what is being looked

for

Log

logDate logTime encryptedUserIP institutionResolverID routerRedirectIdentifier aulast aufirst auinit auinit1 auinitm au aucorp atitle title jtitle stitle date ssn quarter volume

part issue spage epage pages artnum issn eissn isbn coden sici genre btitle place pub edition tpages series doi sid

What the????http://an.institution.resolver.ac.uk/lpu?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=UTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&rft.issn=1434-2944&rft.auinit=U&rft.year=2008&rft.eissn=1522-2632&rft.place=Berlin%2C%20Germany&rft.bx=25166854&rft_id=urn%3Abx%3A25166854&svc.fulltext=yes&rft.atitle=Trophic%20Cascades%20in%20Marine%20and%20Freshwater%20Plankton&rft.object_type=JOURNAL&rft.issue_start=4&rft.language=eng&rft.object_id=954925624272&rft.volume_start=93&rft.volume=93&rft.genre=article&rft.pub=Wiley-VCH&rfr.rfr=www.exlibrisgroup.com%3Abx-menu&svc_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Asch_svc&rft.issue=4-5&rft.bxid=25166854&rft.title=International%20review%20of%20hydrobiology&rft.stitle=INT%20REV%20HYD&rft.stitle=INT%20REV%20HYDROBIOL&rft.stitle=INT%20REV%20HYD&rft.aufirst=Ulrich&rft.aulast=Sommer&rft.jtitle=International%20review%20of%20hydrobiology&rft.coden=IRHYFF&rft.date=2008&rft.issue_end=5&rft.au=Sommer%2C%20Ulrich&rft.epage=516&rft.spage=506&rft.auinit1=U&svc.constraints=getFullTxt&rft_dat=urn%3Abx%3A25166854&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Flibx http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/lpu?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&rft.auinit=U&rft.volume=93&rft.issn=1434-2944&rft.genre=article&rft.issue=4-5&rft.eissn=1522-2632&rfr_id=info:sid/www.exlibrisgroup.com:bx-menu&rft.stitle=INT%20REV%20HYD&rft.aufirst=Ulrich&rft_id=urn:bx:25166854&rft.atitle=Trophic%20Cascades%20in%20Marine%20and%20Freshwater%20Plankton&rft.aulast=Sommer&rft.jtitle=International%20review%20of%20hydrobiology&rft.date=2008&rft.au=Sommer,%20Ulrich&rft.epage=516&rft.spage=506&rft.auinit1=U&rft.object_id=954925624272&rft_dat=urn:bx:25166854&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&sfx.previous_request_id=13147681&svc.fulltext=yes&svc_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:sch_svc

20/04/2011 02:26:06 nOnweMjjqSmmGuVLiBKZjJG/YZ4 570035 no identifier Sommer Ulrich U U Sommer, Ulrich Trophic Cascades in Marine and Freshwater Plankton International review of hydrobiology International review of hydrobiology INT REV HYDINT REV HYDROBIOLINT REV HYD 2008 93 04-May 506 516 1434-2944 1522-2632 IRHYFF article Berlin, Germany Wiley-VCH libx:

Pizza Recommendations

Favourite pizza site

Log

Pizza maker

Would you like to try your usual pepperoni with jalapeños pizza with new piri piri stuffed crust?

OpenURL Router Recommendations (prototype)

e.g. on citeulike

Student / researcher:

reference for journal article

openURL request

OpenURL Router

Log request: activity of what is being looked for

Log

Other people who looked for this also

looked for….

demos.openurl.ac.uk

Images copyright iStockphoto 2011

OpenURL Router Data

e.g. on citeulike

Student / researcher:

reference for journal article

openURL request

OpenURL Router

Log request: activity of what is being looked

for

Log

logDate logTime encryptedUserIP institutionResolverID routerRedirectIdentifier aulast aufirst auinit auinit1 auinitm au aucorp atitle title jtitle stitle date ssn quarter volume

part issue spage epage pages artnum issn eissn isbn coden sici genre btitle place pub edition tpages series doi sid

Anything about usage patterns?

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The possibilities are endless

• Download the data from http://openurl.ac.uk/doc/data/data.html

• Figure out how to open the files• Look at usage just for your institution• Check out Tony Hirst’s info on handling big data sets at

http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/06/04/playing-with-large-ish-csv-files-and-using-them-as-a-database-edina-openurl-logs/ and a visualisation using Gource at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XYEfNdxvk&feature=youtu.be

• And Mark van Harmelen playing with the data set at http://hedtek.com/2011/playing-with-openurl-router-data/

Thank you!

Image: Sheila Fraser 2011 CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Image: Barb Watson http://www.flickr.com/photos/dearbarbz365/4954258961/

More info@ http://edina.ac.uk/projects/Using_OpenURL_Activity_data_summary.html