From open source to open libraries

What Makes Computational Open Source Software Libraries Successful? What Makes Computational Open Source Software Libraries Successful?

Software is the backbone of scientific computing. Yet, while we regularly publish detailed accounts about the results of scientific software, and while there is a general sense of which numerical methods work well, our community is largely unaware of best practices in writing the large-scale, open source scientific software upon which our discipline rests. This is particularly apparent in the c...

From Open Source Software to Open Source Hardware

The open source software principles progressively give rise to new initiatives for culture (free culture), data (open data) or hardware (open hardware). The open hardware is experiencing a significant growth but the business models and legal aspects are not well known. This paper is dedicated to the economics of open hardware. We define the open hardware concept and determine intellectual prope...

Evaluating open source GIS for libraries

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of free and open source (FOSS) geographic information system (GIS) software within the broader contexts of the open source software movement and developments in GIS, and pose the question of whether libraries and academic departments should consider adopting FOSS GIS. Design/methodology/approach – The process of creating a basic them...

Open source, open minds?: An investigation into attitudes towards open source library management systems in UK higher education libraries

Open Source: From Mythos to Meaning

Free open source software (FOSS) projects expose rich development, evolutionary, and collaborative data from which researchers have formed theories and conclusions about the FOSS development ecosystem. However, little work has been done to determine whether FOSS projects are analogous to proprietary development efforts. We propose several axes along which taxonomies of FOSS and proprietary proj...