Forum OpenACS Development: Clickstream and MIP for openacs-5

Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on 07/20/05 02:33 AM

These last days i spent trying openacs packages to collect and analyze data for KM purpose.

Web Engineering Group (http://www.weg.ee.usyd.edu.au) from University of Sydney has interesting software implemented over OpenACS as undergraduate projects. I found these realized under Rafael Calvo supervion:

Market Intelligence platform for competitive intelligence by Kim Hoan Tran - http://www.weg.ee.usyd.edu.au/projects/det_ug2003#Kim_Tran

Clickstream Data Warehouse for detailed analysis of the logged Clickstream data by Vasudev Surath Uthaya Kumar - http://www.weg.ee.usyd.edu.au/projects/det_ug2003#Vasudev_Kumar

I realized some updates to original code to get them working with openacs-5 and postgresql and uploaded to file-storage here https://openacs.org/storage/view/openacs_packages/km-tool.tar.gz if there are others want to try them.

To WEG people: are there projects ongoing improving these kind of funcionalities??

\Orzenil

2: Re: Clickstream and MIP for openacs-5 (response to 1)

Posted by Nick Carroll on 07/20/05 03:40 AM

Hi Orzenil,

I initially ported the clickstream package from acs to openacs 4, and Surath ported the Oracle datamodel to PostgreSQL.

Personally I feel the Clickstream package should be deprecated in favour of the user-tracking and clickthrough packages. They are lighter weight and provide the same functionality, if not more than the Clickstream package. Plus the datamodel is a nightmare, as it was developed at a time when everything was done in the database, so there are lots of database procedures. These procedures should really be moved to a TCL library, if future work is to be one on this package.

Cheers,
Nick.

3: Re: Clickstream and MIP for openacs-5 (response to 1)

Posted by Mark Aufflick on 08/14/05 12:05 PM

Just beware that the User tracking package doesn't appear to be production ready and has some backend issues to be worked out.