Track file downloads annually per Emory fiscal year [placeholder]

[eporter23]

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• To align with other annual reporting requests for Emory's repository content within larger ARL reporting activities, we want to capture a summary of total file downloads per fiscal year (starting Sept 1 and ending Aug 31).

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• As a minimum function, we would like for ETD admins or the SCO team to be able to easily retrieve a total count of file downloads from the ETD repository each year (within the Emory fiscal year start and end points).

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• We have looked at AWS Cloudwatch reports related to file download activity, but have not yet determined if this can be captured on Emory's fiscal year start and end dates which are not calendar-year oriented, and AWS data retention may potentially not capture more than one 12 month period of data.
• We have upgraded the ETD Google Analytics account to use GA4, and enabled the basic Download event tracking, but the markup offered through Hyrax does not register this event.

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• Scholarly Communications Office, Assessment specialists, and Library leadership will benefit from seeing summaries of this activity.

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• Hyrax support for Google Analytics has been both enhanced, and de-activated in the years since the ETD application was launched.
• Current Hyrax download functionality from the View Work > Items list does not register as a download event within Google Analytics 4.

[eporter23]

This was briefly discussed in Sept 2023.

[eporter23]

DCE has implemented an AWS-based method that can show some download activity, however, the AWS data is not retained long enough for this to be a viable solution for annual reporting.