Measuring Use, Assessing Success, Part Two: Count Me In: Measuring Individual Item Usage
About the Webinar
Libraries' growing awareness of performance measures has created an increased interest in and desire for fine-grained usage data. For years, gathering item-level usage data has meant counting uses of the physical containers of intellectual property, e.g.: books, tapes, discs, or periodicals, to name a few. Now that electronic versions of such items inhabit a much greater percentage of many libraries' collections, including that held in their own institutional repositories, usage data about individual book chapters, journal articles, sound recordings, motion picture scenes, and so forth is within reach or is already trickling into libraries' records.
Standards initiatives such as COUNTER and SUSHI have demonstrated feasibility of expanded XML-based schemas to record and communicate more fine-grained data. Authors and funding agencies, in addition to library collection managers, are interested in better understanding the impact this usage tracking can provide. What kinds of schemas would work best to provide this? What kind of mechanisms can be created to support this without becoming unduly burdensome for data providers? What are further practical applications for the analysis of this information?
Event Sessions
Welcome & System Overview
1:00 pm - 1:05 pm
Introduction
Speaker
Update on PIRUS 2: Developing Practical Standards for Recording and Reporting Online Usage at the Individual Article Level
Speaker
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm:
Paul will be speaking in lieu of Peter Shepherd, Project Director, Project COUNTER, who was originally slated
Applying Usage Metrics to Assess Scholarly Content Quality
Speaker
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
Question & Answer Session
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Additional Information
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