Feature Request/Idea: Improved Dataverse and Dataset Metrics

[aeonSolutions]

Overview of the Feature Request
I've been using (again) my for the past few days my Dataverse and I find recurrently the need of having more access metrics to both my dataverses and also datasets. Metrics such as total number of views and more importantly, and this is really important, who viewed or access it: For instance a list of users with their emails, phone numbers, or/and even IP addresses.

My open project related to this request can be found here.

What kind of user is the feature intended for?
(Example users roles: API User, Curator, Depositor, Guest, Superuser, Sysadmin)
This is intended for API users, Guests, SysAdmin

What inspired the request?
I do work in open environments and this includes doing my scientific research In an open format. This means publishing frequent updates on "social media" and also on messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram.
And I need to know my audiences, more, I need to know my audiences and where is being used my authored work.

What existing behavior do you want changed?
Add more metrics options on the metrics floating tab to the left of the webpage.

Any brand new behavior do you want to add to Dataverse?
total number of views
a list of users who views/ access it
a list of users who downloaded my datasets

Any open or closed issues related to this feature request?
no

[poikilotherm]

How about using Matomo/Google Analytics for such metrics? Especially under GDPR restrictions, these tools do much of the heavy lifting for you

[aeonSolutions]

I guess it can be a solution. However, it will require a separate cloud server. And for a simple functionality like the one I request here, I don't see a purpose in having a 2nd cloud server. But, as said, it can be done with google analytics or other analytics services. ...

[pdurbin]

Dataverse already records downloads in the guestbook.

For views, you could enable access logs in Payara or look at access logs from Apache or nginx or similar if you use it.

Views also fall within Make Data Count (MDC). If you set :MDCLogPath Dataverse will log views (and downloads). Please see https://guides.dataverse.org/en/5.13/admin/make-data-count.html

None of this will give you your users phone numbers though! 😄