Preferred Citation: Ekman, Richard, and Richard E. Quandt, editors Technology and Scholarly Communication. Berkeley, Calif Pittsburgh?]:  University of California Press Published in association with the Andrew K. Mellon Foundation,  c1999 1999. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5w10074r/

 
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Data Collection

One of the most important aspects of this project is that the underlying software system has been instrumented with many data collection points. In this way we can find out through actual usage by faculty, students, and research staff what aspects of the system are good and which need more work and thought. Over the past decade many people have speculated about how the digital library might be made to work for the betterment of scholarly communications. Our system as described in this paper is one of the most comprehensive attempts yet to build up a base of usage experience data.

To appreciate the detailed data being collected by the project, we will describe the various types of data that the Rights Manager system captures. Many types of transactions occur between the Rights Manager client and the Rights Manager server software throughout a user session. The server software records these transactions, which will permit detailed analysis of usage patterns. Appendix D gives some details regarding the data collected during a user session.

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Preferred Citation: Ekman, Richard, and Richard E. Quandt, editors Technology and Scholarly Communication. Berkeley, Calif Pittsburgh?]:  University of California Press Published in association with the Andrew K. Mellon Foundation,  c1999 1999. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5w10074r/