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Identifying user behavior in domain-specific repositories

Issue title: APE 2014 and ELPUB 2014

Article type: Research Article

Authors: van Hoek, Wilko; * | Shen, Wei | Mayr, Philipp

Affiliations: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Wilko van Hoek, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: User information behavior, web log analysis, information seeking, search process, online information services

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-140745

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 34, no. 3-4, pp. 249-258, 2014

Published: 18 December 2014
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Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the user behavior of two different domain-specific repositories. The web analytic tool etracker was used to gain a first overall insight into the user behavior of these repositories. Moreover, we extended our work to describe an apache web log analysis approach which focuses on the identification of the user behavior. Therefore the user traffic within our systems is visualized using chord diagrams. We could find that recommendations are used frequently and users do rarely combine searching with faceting or filtering.

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