OpenURL Router Request Counts by Date and Hour

OpenURL Router activity data aggregated by date and hour. The data was originally sourced from the OpenURL Router project at the University of Edinburgh and processed by Dimitrios Sferopoulos. The dataset's specific time range and total volume are not detailed in the provided metadata.

Use Cases

• Analyzing daily and hourly request patterns based on the date and hour aggregation mentioned in the title.
• Modeling web traffic seasonality for the OpenURL Router service based on the described request data.
• Investigating the impact of academic calendar events on link-resolver usage based on the project's educational context.

Strengths

• Data is derived from the authoritative OpenURL Router project at the University of Edinburgh.
• Aggregation by date and hour provides a clear temporal structure for analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and total data volume are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

OpenURL Router data from http://openurl.ac.uk/doc/data/data.html, processed by Dimitrios Sferopoulos.

Collection Method

Data was aggregated from router logs; a generation script is referenced on a discussion page.