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I can't speak to doing this specifically on Drupal, but in terms of measuring clicks I would simplify. We use google analytics and at each place I've been I've just set up some custom events analytics code to record specific types of clicks. Here at the TMC Library we're now recording database clicks with that mechanism. In terms of a database list, I've gone a few routes. When I was at the University of New Mexico, where I had no access to backend databases for most of my tenure, I built an A-Z list in XML that plugged into our junky CMS (Cascade Server). It worked quite well. However, I'm more interested in extracting things like that from a central data node, like serial solutions or intota. Here at TMC we're using intota, and I've built a php script to extract the contents of one of the reports and populate into a MySQL database for capturing that information. At my last library we used serial solutions, and, while I didn't plug that into the website, I did have to build a script that could parse a serial solutions csv file into a google books xml format so that Ex Libris' rather unfortunate Primo tool could make sense of it for discovery purposes. That file, of course, covered individual publications as well as other linked objects. It's available on my github site. Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Innovation Architect *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library* 1133 John Freeman Blvd Houston, TX 77030 http://library.tmc.edu/ www.jasonbengtson.com On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Ken Irwin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Thanks to all who responded a few weeks ago to my inquiry about updating > the code on my library's website. Many folks suggested moving to a CMS, and > I'm starting to look into that possibility, and particularly Drupal. > > In doing so, I'm hoping not to re-invent the wheel, and I'm hoping that > maybe someone has already designed a basic infrastructure to replace the > backbone of our current website, namely. > > Under our current arrangement we have an interlocking set of databases > that performs some basic library functions: > > There's a database table that lists all of the databases we subscribe to. > That database feeds a user interface that: > > * lists databases > > * counts click-thrus > > * routes traffic to our proxy server when appropriate > > * can list databases by subject area (defined in a table of > subject associations) > There's also a back-end UI to create subject/database associations, > display click-thru stats, generate EZproxy config files based on the table > of library databases. > > Does anyone know of a freely-available set of modules/pages/etc that's > already designed to do this sort of thing? In my imagination, lots of > libraries would want to basically this same thing, customized to their own > particularly needs and maybe we wouldn't each have to start from scratch. > > Any advice? > > Thanks > Ken >