Comments on: Tracking repository searches from the inside http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/06/06/tracking-repository-searches-from-the-inside/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:45:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: stuart http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/06/06/tracking-repository-searches-from-the-inside/comment-page-1/#comment-692 stuart Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:45:32 +0000 http://blog.stuartlewis.com/?p=9#comment-692 Is there another search option in EPrints? The repositories I've tried all use /search/simple regardless of if they are performing a simple or more advanced search. I've never tried monitoring other search parameters, but it might be an interesting thing to do. Assuming it works well, it might tell you what types of searches people are performing. For example are they just doing a free text search, or using filters to refine the search. Is there another search option in EPrints? The repositories I’ve tried all use /search/simple regardless of if they are performing a simple or more advanced search.

I’ve never tried monitoring other search parameters, but it might be an interesting thing to do. Assuming it works well, it might tell you what types of searches people are performing. For example are they just doing a free text search, or using filters to refine the search.

]]> By: Jenny Delasalle http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/06/06/tracking-repository-searches-from-the-inside/comment-page-1/#comment-689 Jenny Delasalle Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:57:57 +0000 http://blog.stuartlewis.com/?p=9#comment-689 I'm going to try this for my repository... which is an E-Prints one. If I set the parameter as simple, as you instruct, presumably I only get it to track simple searches within my repository? So, I can put up to four other parameters in, to get G.A. to look at other types of search. Would I want to ask G.A. to monitor other search parameters, or would that just muddy my statistics? By the way, I didn't know how to find the search parameters in E-prints, but I found out a simple way: if you do a search in your repository, you'll get a URL for the results page that will contain the search parameters you have used. I think the bits you can use are the labels that appear between an ampersand and an equal sign. Wierd that the full text parameter appears to begin with an underscore... I’m going to try this for my repository… which is an E-Prints one. If I set the parameter as simple, as you instruct, presumably I only get it to track simple searches within my repository? So, I can put up to four other parameters in, to get G.A. to look at other types of search. Would I want to ask G.A. to monitor other search parameters, or would that just muddy my statistics?
By the way, I didn’t know how to find the search parameters in E-prints, but I found out a simple way: if you do a search in your repository, you’ll get a URL for the results page that will contain the search parameters you have used. I think the bits you can use are the labels that appear between an ampersand and an equal sign. Wierd that the full text parameter appears to begin with an underscore…

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