1. Visualizing Global Impact of an Institutional Repository
Hui Zhang
LITA Forum 2016

2. Content Types in SA@OSU
Theses and Dissertations
24,842
Technical Reports
11,185
Articles
7,788
Presentations and Posters
1,041
Audio and Video
159
Datasets 59
Oregon State University’s institutional repository has been in production since It contains over 58,000 total items, primarily theses and dissertations as well as technical reports (primarily in the form of government documents and extension and experiment station publications), items classified as books (primarily digitized books out of copyright), datasets, conference proceedings and presentations, multimedia, datasets, and, increasingly since the university passed an OA policy in 2013, faculty articles.

3. Usage statistics by item Usage statistics by school and/or department
Showcasing IR impacts
Usage statistics by item
Usage statistics by school and/or department
Altmetrics

4. Showcasing IR impact: From spreadsheet

5. Showcasing IR impacts: To visualization

6. An ‘Open’ Readership Map
Open source
Use free technology and service
Detach from backend repository

7. Technology infrastructure
Google Analytics and API
Track web visits
Access Google Analytics data with API
Ruby on Rails
Build the web application
Google Maps

8. Tracking Download Event in DSpace
Locate item-view.xsl
Tracking download as event with following snippet inserted
<xsl:template name="view-open"> <a> <xsl:attribute name="onclick"> trackDownload(this) </xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:value-of </xsl:attribute> <i18n:text>xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-files-viewOpen</i18n:text> </a> <script type="text/javascript"> <xsl:text>function trackDownload(link) {_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Bitstream', 'Download', link.href]); setTimeout('document.location = "' + link.href + '"', 200); return false;} </xsl:text> </script> </xsl:template>
Item-view.xsl: dspace-xmlui/src/main/webapp/themes/Mirage/lib/xsl/aspect/artifactbrowser

9. Access Google Analytics data with API
Script running on the server side that requires authentication with OAuth
Create a service account with Google API
Use the private key for authentication
We use the Google API Ruby Client
Google Analytics Query Explorer
A user-friendly web tool for building Google Analytics API queries

10. Rails application Model App Asset
Location, reader, timestamp
rails g model reader time:datetime:index country:string region:string city:string latitude:float longitude:float title:text uri:text activity:string count:integer
App
data_controller.rb: access Google Analytics with API, store results into mysql cache database
Asset
rm.js.erb: draw the Google Map and display recent visits

11. Code repository in github
Thanks Camden Lopez!

12. Demonstration

13. Next steps Embed the readership-map to the homepage of IR
Run a web-based user survey

14. Thanks! hui.zhang@oregonstate.edu