If a contributing library wished to see how many pages were digitized in the month of August 2008,
here is how this would be done.
go to archive.org
click on Go!
click on "advanced search"
look half way down the page to the "advanced XML Search" window.
Type into the "Query" field-
"contributor:(library of congress) AND publicdate:[2008-08-01 TO 2008-08-30]"
Important:
- No " " required. Must have "()" around contributor name.
- No spaces after ":"
By holding down the "Shift" Key, highlight the fields you want to
eventually have exported to excel. For example-
"date, identifier, imagecount and title"
Click the radio button for "CSV"
Hit "search". There might be a small delay as the search is executed.
In this query, approx. 2143 results will be returned.
When prompted, save the ".csv" file to your hard drive and note
the location saved.
Open Excel and open the previously saved ".csv" file.
It will parse the data into columns and you now will be able to sort,
sum, or otherwise manipulate the data.