Usage Data BOF

Session 235

Thursday
3:45 pm-4:45 pm
Salon J, 6th Floor

Session Description

Easily accessible information about usage is critical to the work of Sakai-related staff including support staff, designers, researchers, developers, testers, system administrators and managers. Current capabilities to gather the required data and tools to present and interpret it are limited and vary across Sakai implementations. The Sakai Usage Data Work Group intends to fully describe the types of usage data needed by all stakeholders, compare current strategies for gathering and interpreting usage data, and specify new strategies for gathering and interpreting data.

While there are many stakeholders who need usage data, the data in many cases is the same. "Usage data" could come from many sources, including web server access logs, error logs, the system's database, or even Sakai tools in the end-user interface. "Usage data" can be time-series data, measurements taken at a specific point in time, or an average measurement taken over a period of time.

Session participants will discuss:

• Do these use cases reflect your local stakeholders and needs?
• Does your current CMS or Sakai implementation support any of these use cases? Do they support others not listed here that should be added?
• If no Sakai implementations support these use cases, how should they?

Presentation Materials

We will review and annotate the existing Sakai Working Group Home page for Usage Data space in this BOF session.

There are posters related to survey data and other usage data posted on the Attachments page.

Additional Information

• Session leaders are also encouraged to appoint a note-taker and post the minutes of their session on a Page (see Add Page link near top-right.)

• Participants and Session Leaders are encouraged to post Comments (see Comment form below) or create additional Pages as needed to facilitate collaboration (see Add Page link near top-right.)
  • See also the Sakai Working Group Home page for Usage Data.
  • Child Pages for this session (Added Pages will automatically appear in this list):