Data Onboarding Background: Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration Project (2022-2025)

This document provides background information to the data onboarding process for the Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration project. The purpose of the data onboarding process is to gather technical and access information about the sources of a project partner’s book usage data so that we can import this data into the BAD system.

A companion to this Data Onboarding Background’ document is the ‘Data Onboarding Questionnaire’ – which is a read-only version of the questionnaire that partners will be sent directly.

The Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) is focused on creating a sustainable OA Book focused analytics service. This service is needed to safeguard and support diversity in the voices, perspectives, geographies, topics and languages made visible through OA Books. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Book Analytics Dashboard project is building on an earlier Mellon-funded initiative: Developing a Pilot Data Trust for OA eBook Usage (2020 – 2022). In addition to scaling workflows, infrastructure and customer support, the Demonstration Project is developing a long-term plan for housing, maintenance and funding of the analytics service as a sustainable community infrastructure.

More Information

• Visit the BAD project website

• Follow the BAD project on Twitter @BookAnalytics

• Join the BAD project mailing list

• Visit the BAD project Zenodo community

• See the BAD dashboard for University of Michigan Press

• Our book-focussed GitHub repository

• Our technical documentation on Read the Docs

• Email BAD info@book-analytics.org