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 # DSpace Statistics API [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/alanorth/dspace-statistics-api.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/alanorth/dspace-statistics-api)
-A simple REST API to expose Solr view and download statistics for items in a DSpace repository. This project contains a standalone indexing component and a WSGI application. The Solr queries used in this project were modeled on those found on the [DSpace wiki](https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr).
+A simple REST API to expose Solr view and download statistics for items in a DSpace repository. This project contains an indexing component and a WSGI application. The Solr queries used to gather the statistics in this project were modeled on those found on the [DSpace wiki](https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr).
 
 ## Requirements