Implementing of a Data Webhouse to Analyse of the Behaviors of Users at the Digital Library

• Grant number: 10/15789-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2010
• End date: October 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science
• Principal Investigator: Edilson Carlos Caritá
• Grantee: Victor de Toni Padovan
• Host Institution: Universidade de Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP). Campus Ribeirão Preto. Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The various forms that information accepts has propitiated, during the history, specific needs for it treatment, ordering, documentation, in specialized instance of knowledge storage like libraries, files, museums, among others. With the advent of new technologies of information and communication, happens the dilution of borders between these instances, converging documents from different kinds for a same collection, the digital library.This project proposes the implementation of a data Webhouse for capturing logs of sequence clicks and converts them in data table for interpreting the ways used by the users at the digital library with the purpose of analyzing their behaviors.The propose is to enable information science and documentation professionals can perform analysis of data stored in a strategic way, adapting and flexibling the services offered by digital library.