{"id":666,"date":"2019-10-24T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T02:00:51","slug":"creating-actionable-data-using-alma-analytics-anzreg2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/creating-actionable-data-using-alma-analytics-anzreg2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating actionable data using Alma Analytics #anzreg2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beyond the numbers: creating actionable data using Alma Analytics<\/strong> <strong>dashboard<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Aleksandra Petrovic, University of Auckland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using analytics to inform relegation of print resources (to off-site storage) and retention (on main shelves).<\/p>\n<p>Alma analytics lets you create very detailed reports but a fair amount of work, especially with data cleaning and analysing to get 100% accuracy. A lower accuracy option using the dashboard would be much quicker. Visualisations they used included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overview by subject view showed how many items no usage, low usage, medium usage, high usage in different subjects based on checkout history.<\/li>\n<li>Overview of usage by publication year bands<\/li>\n<li>Overview of usage of possible duplicates in different subjects<\/li>\n<li>Overview weeding reports that could be more closely investigated<\/li>\n<li>Overview of books needing preservation<\/li>\n<li>Quick stats eg monographs count, zero uses, low uses, over 10 years old, possible duplicates &#8211; per library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Weeding parameters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>publication year<\/li>\n<li>Alma usage<\/li>\n<li>accession year<\/li>\n<li>historical usage<\/li>\n<li>possible duplicates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Other libraries might also consider value, authorship (eg by own institution&#8217;s authors), theses (irreplaceable), donations\/bequests.)<\/p>\n<p>Different methodology types eg soft methodology would give a number of &#8220;soft retain&#8221;, &#8220;soft relegate&#8221;. Could improve with weighted indexes among other options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Will you share reports in community area?<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> Yes, though some are very specific to Auckland so can&#8217;t promise they&#8217;ll automatically work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Are you using Greenglass with this approach?<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> Using this by itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Ex Libris have released some P&amp;E duplication reports &#8211; how do you approach risk if an electronic item is in an aggregator collection (and might disappear&#8230;)?<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> Excluded all electronic items from dashboard as it needs more information about subscribed vs owned. This is a next step&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the numbers: creating actionable data using Alma Analytics dashboard Aleksandra Petrovic, University of Auckland Using analytics to inform relegation of print resources (to off-site storage) and retention (on main shelves). Alma analytics lets you create very detailed reports but a fair amount of work, especially with data cleaning and analysing to get 100% accuracy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[252,307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}