Retain Statistical Identifiers
Right now when you have all the Anonymization jobs set to run, only four elements remain in a checkout history of an item related to the patron details: User Group, Job Category, Record Type, and Account Type.
This makes the use of the Statistical identifiers not very effective to measuring checkout usage with them. We have them currently set to be the user's major/department. We would like to know usage by major/department, but cannot get this information with Anonymization jobs turned on.
Any chance the Statistical Identifiers could also remain in the loan history in Analytics.
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Bill Kelm commented
Asaf, thanks for the update I think this is now working properly.
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The February 2018 release includes a resolved issue related to this idea
Analytics: If item loans were anonymized, the statistical categories (which are part of the patron record) were removed. This was fixed, and they now remain after the anonymization job is run. Cases: 00459324, 00235592, 00241520, 00456395, 00448586, 00436889,
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Bill Kelm commented
Moshe, I have them configured in Analytics, that is pretty straight forward.
How come once the loans are anonymized, why are the Undefined numbers going up, and the other defined checkouts disappearing?
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Chris Sloan commented
Fulfilment subject area does not have a User Details dimension, rather a Borrower details dimension. There were some changes made to this table last year/late 2014 to change from User details to Borrower details. The Patron details table was also set to be deprecated until discrepancies in loan counts by user group were highlighted. Is it possible that this particular dimension table was not set up identical to the shared User Details dimension?
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Bill Kelm commented
This is not working on our system Moshe.
Below is a sample of loans by major from last September, notice the 6,000 plus checkouts at the top which are not defined. Those have all been anonymized.
UNDEFINED 6,431
AMERICAN ETHNIC STUDIES,AMERICAN STUDIES,HISTORY 3
AMERICAN ETHNIC STUDIES,HISTORY 8
ANTHROPOLOGY 3
ART HISTORY,CIVIC COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA DEPT,COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPT,DEANS OFFICE CLA,GERMAN,MATHEMATICS 6
ART STUDIO 4
ATKINSON INSTRUCTOR 14
BIOLOGY 5
CIVIC COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA DEPT,FILM STUDIES 1
CLASSICAL STUDIES,COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF IDEAS 13
DEANS OFFICE CLA 33
ECONOMICS 1
ECONOMICS,MUSIC 1
ENGLISH 2
EXERCISE SCIENCE MAJOR 3
GERMAN 6
HATFIELD LIBRARY 2
HISTORY 2
HISTORY,LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 1
LAW INSTRUCTION 22
LAW LIBRARY 1
LAW,MANAGEMENT 1
MUSIC DEPT 2
MUSIC EDUCATION 1
POLITICS 3
POLITICS DEPARTMENT 16
RELIGIOUS STUDIES 2
SOCIOLOGY 1
UNDECLARED 2
WOMENS AND GENDER STUDIES 1 -
Every subject area that has a User Details dimension includes statistical information about the user, even if the specific user ID is anonymized by the system as per library policies. The statistical information is taken from the users’ statistical categories. What statistical categories are made reportable in Analytics is managed in a configurable table.
and to
http://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Training/What's_New_Videos_2014/04_September_2014_Release/Analytics%3A_User_Statistical_Categories for further details on this part of the User Details dimension.