Implement Matomo statistics

[alawvt]

Implement Matomo (formerly Piwik) statistics on VTechWorks.

Related to issue, Implement Matomo statistics for VTechWorks in vtlibans

Possible resources

• Installing Matomo
• Matomo Analytics GitHub repository
• Dspace and Piwik Integration blog post
• DSpace-tech - DSpace and Matomo

Hello, does anyone have any experience with using / setting up DSpace with Matomo Analytics instead

Hello Peter,

our computer department provides Matomo and we use it in our DSpace repository, too. For that we implemented a code snippet, that we got from the computer department, in the HTML-Head.

We use XMLUI/Mirage2. The code snippet was added in this section: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-6.3/dspace-xmlui-mirage2/src/main/webapp/xsl/core/page-structure.xsl#L143-L323

Kind regards, Paul Münch

• DSpace-tech - embed piwik iframe into page-structure.
• Dspace-tech - Google Analytics Statistics within DSpace on XMLUI?

We "hacked" our XMLUI to use a local Piwik stats server. See snippet below....

• OpenAIRE-Piwik-DSpace GitHub repository
• Analytics and Privacy: Using Matomo in EBSCO's Discovery Service,
• OpenAIRE’s usage counts service: OpenAIRE’s usage counts service uses the Matomo Open Source Analytics platform to track usage activity.
• https://www.openaire.eu/usage-statistics/

After the generation of the identifiers the repository manager has to perform the following steps:

Download the tracking code for the repository platform. The code is maintained on Github: as a patch for various versions of DSpace (https://github.com/openaire/OpenAIRE-Piwik-DSpace)

• La Referencia OpenAIRE GitHub repository: A python agent for sending DSpace usage statistics events to Matomo/OpenAIRE. Also
• La Referencia DSpace Usage Stats Collector
• Integrate KnowledgeArc Matomo Statistics with DSpace - DSpace service provider's announcement, 2019, includes a link to a repository with it installed, https://sigma.nursingrepository.org/handle/10755/623082.

[alawvt]

I believe we want to add the script to https://github.com/VTUL/vtechworks/blob/vt_6_x_dev/dspace/modules/xmlui-mirage2/src/main/webapp/themes/vtmirage2/xsl/core/page-structure.xsl, just after the Altmetric script, line 333,

           <!-- Add Altmetric support -->
            <script type='text/javascript' src='https://d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js'>&#160;</script>
        </head>
    </xsl:template>

[alawvt]

Resolved by PR #778.

[alawvt]

This has been pushed to branch vt_6_x_dev_deploy for testing on vtechworks-dev.

[alawvt]

Added commit 0045d37fc4a8188cd9fee420ef9bb5f307536fdb