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Using Free and Open Source Software to open data

Simon Bowie
Simon Bowie

FOSS is becoming more widely used in libraries of all kinds. Open-source discovery layers and open-source LMSs can help libraries open up metadata and gain more control over library systems.

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Using Free and Open Source Software to open data #ILI2015Simon Barron @SimonXIX
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Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Stallman, R., 2002. Free Software Definition in Free software, free society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman. Boston, MA: GNU Press.
...while proprietary software suppliers enjoy the benefits of OSS themselves theyre not so keen on passing those freedoms onto us, libraries that buy their software and support services. Preater, A., 2012. Free and Open Source Software and distributed innovation on Ginformation Systems blog, 2012-12-01 <http://www. preater.com/2012/12/01/free-and-open-source-software-and- distributed-innovation/>
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ariadne.ac.uk/issue74/barron Barron, S., 2015. Implementing Kuali OLE at SOAS Library on Ariadne web magazine, 2015-06-29
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
VuFind logo designed by Ben Wiens. Provided by vufind.org. @VuFind
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
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Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
Using Free and Open Source Software to open data
Lawson, S., Sanders, K., Smith, L., 2015. Commodification of the Information Profession: A Critique of Higher Education Under Neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3 (1): eP1182 <http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182> For more info, please read:
Coleman, G., 2009. Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers. Cultural Anthropology, 24(3): 420-454 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548- 1360.2009.01036.x> DiBona, C., Ockman, S., & Stone, M., eds. 1999. Open sources: voices from the open source revolution. London: OReilly & Associates. Lawson, S., Sanders, K., Smith, L., 2015. Commodification of the Information Profession: A Critique of Higher Education Under Neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(1): eP1182 <http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182> Marx, K., 1973. The fragment on machines in Marx, K., 1973. Grundrisse (trans. M. Nicolaus), Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp. 690-712. Preater, A., 2012. Free and Open Source Software and distributed innovation on Ginformation Systems blog, 2012-12-01 <http://www.preater.com/2012/12/01/free-and-open-source-software-and-distributed- innovation/> Stallman, R., 2002. Free software, free society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman. Boston, MA.: GNU Press. Bibliography:

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Using Free and Open Source Software to open data

  • 1. Using Free and Open Source Software to open data #ILI2015Simon Barron @SimonXIX
  • 2. Logos courtesy of respective organisations.
  • 3. Logo courtesy of the Kuali Foundation.@KualiOLE
  • 4. VuFind logo designed by Ben Wiens. Provided by vufind.org. @VuFind
  • 5. Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Stallman, R., 2002. Free Software Definition in Free software, free society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman. Boston, MA: GNU Press.
  • 6. ...while proprietary software suppliers enjoy the benefits of OSS themselves theyre not so keen on passing those freedoms onto us, libraries that buy their software and support services. Preater, A., 2012. Free and Open Source Software and distributed innovation on Ginformation Systems blog, 2012-12-01 <http://www. preater.com/2012/12/01/free-and-open-source-software-and- distributed-innovation/>
  • 7. Logo courtesy of the Kuali Foundation.@KualiOLE
  • 8. ariadne.ac.uk/issue74/barron Barron, S., 2015. Implementing Kuali OLE at SOAS Library on Ariadne web magazine, 2015-06-29
  • 11. VuFind logo designed by Ben Wiens. Provided by vufind.org. @VuFind
  • 17. Logo courtesy of the SobekCM Repository Community. http://sobekrepository.org/
  • 21. Lawson, S., Sanders, K., Smith, L., 2015. Commodification of the Information Profession: A Critique of Higher Education Under Neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3 (1): eP1182 <http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182> For more info, please read:
  • 22. Coleman, G., 2009. Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers. Cultural Anthropology, 24(3): 420-454 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548- 1360.2009.01036.x> DiBona, C., Ockman, S., & Stone, M., eds. 1999. Open sources: voices from the open source revolution. London: OReilly & Associates. Lawson, S., Sanders, K., Smith, L., 2015. Commodification of the Information Profession: A Critique of Higher Education Under Neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(1): eP1182 <http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182> Marx, K., 1973. The fragment on machines in Marx, K., 1973. Grundrisse (trans. M. Nicolaus), Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp. 690-712. Preater, A., 2012. Free and Open Source Software and distributed innovation on Ginformation Systems blog, 2012-12-01 <http://www.preater.com/2012/12/01/free-and-open-source-software-and-distributed- innovation/> Stallman, R., 2002. Free software, free society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman. Boston, MA.: GNU Press. Bibliography: