1. Google Analytics for Repositories Implementing and reporting in TARA Ashling Hayes TARA Content Manager

2. What am I going to talk about  Google Analytics in TARA  Type of reports  Pro’s & Cons

3. Background  Google Analytics used to complement DSpace statistics  Concerns over DSpace statistics  DSpace stats tended to break on us  SOLR stats put a lot of pressure on our server  2 datasets which didn’t quite match  Google analytics does not automatically count downloads  February 2015 – Decided to solely use Google analytics  April 2015 – Go Live

4. To boldly go where no man has gone before

5. Except we haven’t University of Edinburgh Repository (ERA) -Implemented Google Analytics in 20111/2012

6. Challenges  Google Analytics are usually only viewable by authorised account holders  Difficult to capture downloads directly from google.  https://github.com/seesmith/Dspace-googleanalytics https://github.com/seesmith/Dspace-googleanalytics  Dspace 1.8.1 & JSP user interface  Tara is Dspace Version 5.2 and the XML user interface  https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pag eId=64326952 https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pag eId=64326952

7. Where to start  There is so much information that it can be confusing  Basic information – Referrals, Geographic etc can be shown in dashboards  Import dashboards  Generic Dashboard is good for showing simple information  This can be customised

8. Generic dashboard

11. Data  Each widget on the dashboard can be changed.  Data can be filtered on each widget to exclude non – relevant data

12. Each widget on the dashboard can be changed

13. Data can be filtered on each widget to exclude non –relevant data

15. Site Performance Dashboard

16. Keyword analysis reports

17. Active users

18. Custom Dashboards

19. Who is viewing our items?

25. What reports do we use this data in  International Reviews – Research Themes  School Reviews  Personal Research Impact Reviews

26. Researcher Reports

27. TARA statistics are part of our analytics toolkit H-Index

28. Cons

29. Steep learning curve

30. Incomplete Data

31. Not all information is as you want it

32. We only have download data from April 2015

33. Why would you do that?  Google Analytics has an automatic reporting feature  Ability to provide reports based on both the downloads & the other information in Google analytics  Download information adds a he amount of value to the Google analytics  Which will allow us to do.………

34. Pros

36. Free service

37. Huge amount of information

38. One source of data

39. Easy to get started