Esploro Usage Statistics

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Customers may currently provide Usage Statistics to Esploro in the following formats. The files should be provided in Excel format.

Dspace Format

This is also known as Research Exchange. The following format is expected from all Research Exchange customers. The Bitstream_HITS field is the statistic per year/month. The match point used to find the research asset is the Item_URI.

Field Name	Notes
ID	not used
Item_ID	not used
Item_HITS	This number is used for the number of accesses (hits) in Esploro per month/year, with the February 2021 release.
Bitstream_ID	not used
Bistream_HITS	This number is used for the number of accesses (hits) in Esploro per month/year (until January 2021 release only).
Month	month of relevant hits
Year	year of relevant hits
Dspace_Collection	not used
Dspace_Community	not used
Item_ID	not used
Item_TITLE	not used
Item_URI	Used as the match point to find the associated research asset.
Item_CREATOR	not used
in_archive	not used
withdrawn	not used

Generic Format

If you are not coming from Dspace/Research Exchange, then provide the statistics in the following format. The file is expected in Excel format.

Field Name	Notes
CREATE_DATE	in format YYYYMMDD. For monthly statistics, use (for example) 20210201 for February 2021. Mandatory.
LIBRARYID	You may fill this in if desired, if the statistics are differentiated by library. Use the code defined in Esploro; do not use an incoming code that Esploro is not aware of.
LIBRARYUNITID	You may fill this in if desired, if the statistics are differentiated by library unit. Use the code defined in Esploro; do not use an incoming code that Esploro is not aware of.
MATCH_ID	Provide the item URL or the ASSETID, depending on which MATCH_ID_TYPE you choose. Mandatory.
MATCH_ID_TYPE	URL or ASSETID. Mandatory. This can be different per record, if desired. The file can contain both types of match IDs.
SERVICE_TYPE	metadata_view or file_request. Mandatory. This can be different per record, if desired. The file can contain both types of service types.
NUM_ACCESS	This is the number of hits. Mandatory.