The below resources are aimed at repositories looking to contribute to and leverage shared approaches to counting views and downloads. If you would like to schedule a meeting with MDC technical staff to walk through this process or answer questions, please get in touch.
Step 1: Normalized and comparable counting of views & downloads
- COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data:
https://www.projectcounter.org/code-of-practice-rd-sections/foreword/
If you have feedback or believe your use repository use case is not represented, please let us know so we can consider in future versions.
Step 2: Sending data usage reports to DataCite for aggregation
- General Information:
https://support.datacite.org/docs/views-and-downloads - Submitting Reports to DataCite:
https://support.datacite.org/docs/contributing - API Endpoint:
https://support.datacite.org/docs/usage-reports-api-guide
Questions specific to this step may be sent to help@datacite.org.
Step 3: Retrieving aggregate usage for your repository
- Consuming Usage:
https://support.datacite.org/docs/consuming - API Endpoint:
https://support.datacite.org/docs/eventdata-guide#section-usage-events
