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Download tracking

2012 working group discussion

Ideas

  • Also track "casual" downloads from users without an account, to get an idea of the geographic distribution of users (from their IP addresses). This would be similar to what Google Analytics provides, and could in fact be provided by Google Analytics itself.

Other databanks' strategies

NVS

e-mail from Susan Wiser on 2013-1-17:

[NVS tracks]:

1) all publications/reports/ land use policy decision that use NVS data
2) whether people who downloaded data actually used it and if not, why not
3) any errors/problems that people encountered using the data