Higher Education Web Information System Usage Analysis with a Data Webhouse

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2006

Authors

Carla Teixeira Lopes (Author) Other; Gabriel David (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

No. 3983

Pages: 78-87

ISSN: 0302-9743

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Computer science

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-004-PDF

DOI: 10.1007/11751632_9

Abstract (EN): Usage analysis of a Web Information System is a valuable help to predict user needs, to assess system¿s impact and to guide to its improvement. This is usually done analysing clickstreams, a low-level approach, with huge amounts of data that calls for data warehouse techniques. This paper presents a dimensional model to monitor user behaviour in Higher Education Web Information Systems and an architecture for the extraction, transformation and load process. These have been applied in the development of a data warehouse to monitor the use of SIGARRA, the University of Porto¿s Higher Education Web Information System. The efficiency and effectiveness of this monitorization method were confirmed by the knowledge extracted from a 3 month period analysis. A brief description of the main results and recommendations are also described.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific