Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal (RAMP) 2018 data

Data have been compressed into zip files to reduce the filesize. Each zip file contains one CSV file.

The RAMP team values and appreciates the collaboration and contributions of RAMP participating IR. For a complete list of participating IR, please see the RAMP website at https://rampanalytics.org/ramp-repositories/. We also acknowledge Google, whose APIs are used to collect data.

RAMP data are audited for completeness and accuracy prior to publication. However, access to GSC data for any single repository may be impacted by repository migrations, configuration changes, rate limits, or other causes. Such issues may be temporary or occur over longer time periods, and the completeness and accuracy of the published data for individual repositories can therefore be variable. When such issues are known, every reasonable attempt is made to correct or retrieve missing or dropped data.

The variability that may exist within the dataset with regard to its completeness for individual repositories should be kep in mind when comparing data from two or more repositories. In particular, RAMP administrators strongly discourage qualitative assessments of any and all repositories, institutions, providers, and platforms represented within the dataset. 

An additional file is included with the dataset, "RAMP_repository_info.csv". This file includes information about the participating repositories whose data are included in the dataset, and may be helpful in filtering or subsetting the data. The file includes information about repository platforms and the country where each repository is located that is not included in the RAMP data and may be also be useful for subsetting data by platform or country. The fields in this CSV file are:

• repository_id: This is the same as the repository_id field described in the RAMP data documentation above. This shared ID can be used to merge RAMP data with the platform and country information available in this file.
• country: The two letter ISO code for the country in which the repository is located.
• ir_platform: The software platform used by the repository. Note that some RAMP repositories have migrated platforms over time and may as a result be represented multiple times in this file. All of the major IR platforms are represented, as well as custom built applications.
• name: The name of the repository. Typically, this includes the name of the host organization and the name of the repository