Cardiff University, one of UK's major teaching and research universities, has developed the first generic system in the UK to help education institutions assess the popularity and use of their electronic resources viewed via access management software. The JISC-funded RAPTOR project, led by Cardiff's information services directorate, enables institutions to view usage statistics from different access management systems, with a particular focus on federated access systems.
The RAPTOR system automatically analyses the log files created by an institution's access management systems, and shows information about the resources that users have accessed in easily understandable graphics.
A further feature of RAPTOR includes providing UK-wide statistics for the JISC Monitoring Unit on the take-up of federated access management across the UK. RAPTOR could also be applied in the US, Europe, and beyond, with potential partnership opportunities between Cardiff and other institutions already being identified to further develop the system.
RAPTOR is now available to the higher education community. The project has secured further JISC funding of £20k to develop the project in consultation with external partners and its users to evaluate and improve the software.
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