Cooperative Statistics Server Workshop ‘Valueing your licence: evaluating licences’ Glasgow, September 24th, 2010 Sylvia Weber, University Library JCS Frankfurt ReDI &

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? September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

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 September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

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) September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

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 5.000 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! September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

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 September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

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 ? September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

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) September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS Environment IDE: Eclipse Language: PHP 5.2 Framework: Yii [http://www.yiiframework.com] 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 September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS Timeline Phase one: 1.7.2010 to 30.6.2011 August 2010 Data model / Rights model (draft) September 2010 1. user workshop September 2010 Data model / Rights model (final) November 2010 2. user workshop December 2010 Specifications (final)‏ February-May 2011 Implementation of basic features June-July 2011 Usabilty tests and debugging Phase two: 1.7.2011 to 30.6.2012 Extended functionality (i.e. administration of local licences) September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

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 September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS

& ReDI Contact and further information sushi@hebis.de September 24th, 2010 Cooperative Statistics Server ReDI-HeBIS