Public Ada Library Activity Report for First Measured Year

Public Ada Library Activity Report for First Measured Year

[Richard Conn]

Public Ada Library Activity Report for the First Measured Year
September 1993 to August 1994
Richard Conn

The Public Ada Library (PAL) has been active since June, 1993, but its
activity has been measured only since September, 1993.  This report
presents information on a year's worth of activity, dated from
September, 1993 to August, 1994.  Due to disk crashes and other problems
encountered during this period, the activity logs were occasionally
incomplete (during August, 1994, for example, the PAL mirror site at
ftp.cdrom.com had a hard disk crash that resulted in the loss of three
weeks of file transfer data), so this report presents minimum figures.
Additionally, users accessing the PAL by mechanisms other than anonymous
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) are not included in this report.  These
mechanisms include the World Wide Web, gopher, ftpmail, remote NFS
mounts across the Internet, and CDROM and other indirect distributions.

From September 1993 to August 1994, the PAL was accessed by 1,531
organizations in 54 countries, transferring at total of 82,326 files.
The PAL mirror sites at ftp.cdrom.com and ftp.cnam.fr transferred a
total of 71,242 files (36,307 files to ftp.cdrom.com and 34,935 files to
ftp.cnam.fr) from the main PAL site at wuarchive.wustl.edu, but this
total is not included in the 82,326 figure (that is, the total number of
files transferred, including the mirror sites, is 153,568).

Of these 54 countries, the top distribution figures go to:
  United States at 49,014 files to 937 organizations, including:
                                    40 network access providers,
                                   360 commercial firms,
                                   448 educational institutions,
                                    88 government organizations
  France at         6,208 files to 116 organizations
  Germany at        3,231 files to  96 organizations
  Australia at      2,378 files to   6 organizations
  Canada at         2,326 files to  68 organizations
  Belgium at        2,108 files to   5 organizations
  United Kingdom at 1,898 files to   5 organizations
  Switzerland at    1,233 files to  21 organizations
  Netherlands at    1,051 files to  26 organizations
  Sweden at           861 files to  25 organizations
  Israel at           683 files to   2 organizations
  Italy at            491 files to  34 organizations
  Spain at            476 files to  24 organizations

Detailed activity reports can be found in the PAL in the directory
languages/ada/userdocs/activity/pal_logs in the file log_total.zip.
These activity reports contain information on the organizations
involved.  The file log_total.zip is updated approximately monthly.