Developing Open Source Software for Library Services
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Overview
- What is Open Source?
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Discussion (Pro and Contra)
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Our approach for software
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Using Open Source
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Developing Open Source
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Developing Open Source in Practice
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Our Experience with Open Source
What is Open Source?
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Open Source (Open Source Initiative)
https://opensource.org/docs/osd
Free Software (Free Software Foundation)
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en
Debian Free Software Guidelines
Different Definitions for almost the same
![](https://opensource.org/files/osi_keyhole_300X300_90ppi_0.png)
![](https://www.gnu.org/graphics/fsf-logo-notext-small.png)
![](https://www.debian.org/Pics/openlogo-50.png)
Four Freedoms
(Free Software Definition)
- 0: The freedom to
run the program for any purpose.
- 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
"Four freedoms" by the Free Software Foundation, cf. https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/basics/4freedoms.en.html
Freeware
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- 2: The freedom to redistribute and make copies so you can help your neighbor.
- 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
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"inRepository": true,
"translatorType": 3,
"browserSupport": "gcsv",
- "lastUpdated": "2017-01-25 13:39:28"
+ "lastUpdated": "2017-03-11 13:39:28"
}
function detectImport() {
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if(item.creators && item.creators[0] && item.creators[0].lastName) {
return item.creators[0].lastName.toLowerCase().replace(/ /g,"_").replace(/,/g,"");
}
- return "";
+ return "noauthor";
},
"t":function (flags, item) {
if (item["title"]) {
return item["title"].toLowerCase().replace(citeKeyTitleBannedRe, "").split(/\s+/g)[0];
}
- return "";
+ return "notitle";
},
"y":function (flags, item) {
if(item.date) {
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return date.year;
}
}
- return "????";
+ return "nodate";
}
}
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]
}
]
-/** END TEST CASES **/
+/** END TEST CASES **/
Open Source is about ...
- open license
- free download, install
- accessibility to source code
- documentation of source code
- possibilities to modify source code
- social coding
Discussion
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Our approach for software
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Use commercial software and open source
- Using good commercial software gives us stability with professional support, and allows us to put our resources in other areas
- Using good open source software allows us maximum flexibility
- Develop own software as Open Source, when there is a need and it is possible for us
- Contribute to Open Source software as well as to interest groups of commercial software
- Work together on Software
Our Hybrid Software Approach
Using Open Source
Operating Systems in the Backbone
Operating Systems Debian GNU Linux,
Ubuntu, Raspbian (all open source)
Used for
- all kinds of servers and
- web based services on standalone computers (info terminals, screen sharing, ...)
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Internet of Things
mostly based on Open Source
Our Use Case | Hardware | Operating System |
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smartboards with PalMA | Raspberry Pi 3 | Raspbian |
TV display showing news | Raspberry Pi 3 | Raspbian |
60" 4K TV display | ODROID-C2 | Ubuntu |
PalMA (ca. 60 stations) |
Intel NUC / Mini-PC |
Debian |
touch display | Intel NUC / Mini-PC | Windows -> Debian |
coming soon? | sensors | ? |
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Software in the Backbone
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Webservers:
- Apache2
- Tomcat
- NodeJS
Databases:
- MariaDB
- MySQL
- SQLite
Web related software:
- Piwik (web statistics)
- Mibew (chat software)
- LimeSurvey (online surveys)
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System Admin Software
- GLPI (hardware and software inventory / management)
- OCS Inventory
- Icinga (monitoring)
- git (version control system)
- OpenSSH (secure network communication)
- VirtualBox (virtualization)
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"Datacenter Work" by Leonardo Rizzi https://www.flickr.com/photos/stars6/4381851322/
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Content Management
TYPO3 - for our website
https://git.typo3.org/ (code)
WordPress - for our blog
- Open Source license (all of them GPL)
- extensible (plugins, themes, extensions -
also from third parties) - community (developers, companies, users)
Dokuwiki - for interna
EPrints - for our repository
https://github.com/eprints (code)
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Our supported reference management systems
Citavi
Mendeley
Zotero
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Freeware
Swiss Academics
Elsevier
George Mason University
community forum + documentation as wiki
professional support
support websites, email contact
Developing Open Source
Source Code Platforms
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> 55 Mio. projects
> 15 Mio. developers
> 0,43 Mio. projects
> 3,7 Mio. developers
> 0,546 Mio. projects
> 0,1 Mio developers
? projects
> 6 Mio. developers
Open Licenses
Apache license
GNU General Public License
MIT license
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Welcome : Welcome Mat by alborzshawn (2006)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7502393@N04/472028910/
"Linked Open Community" by Andromeda Yelton (SWIB 2016 talk)
https://andromedayelton.com/talks/swib16/
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Open Source Publication (Option A)
The final result will be released as open source.
Open Source Development (Option B)
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The whole software development process is open.
Developing Open Source in Practice
Contributors, Pull Requests, Languages
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Citation Style Language: https://github.com/citation-style-language
Open Review within a Pull Request
Zotero Translator PR #782: https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/782
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Open Roadmap, Future Plans, Kanban Board
lobid waffle board: https://waffle.io/hbz/lobid
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- Go to github.com/hbunke/BibsOnGitHub
- Sign in (if you are not already)
- Click an "list.md"
- Click on the pen to edit
- Add one of these two libraries
- https://github.com/NTNUUB
- https://github.com/University-of-Tartu-Library
- Create a pull request
- Wait for the merge or comments of the maintainer
Live Example
- Work on documentation collaboratively
- BibsOnGitHub: list of GitHub accounts of libraries, librarians, and developers of library software
Our Open Source Experience
UB-Mannheim on GitHub
PalMA - Open Source for Team Monitor
- https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/PalMA
- GPL
- developed by Mannheim University Library
- used by at least 5 other
libraries in Germany:
available languages for users: German, English, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic (45 %), Urdu (20 %)
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kitodo - digitization workflow management
- https://github.com/kitodo/
- developed by a non-profit association with 38 institutional members (libraries and companies)
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Tesseract - OCR Engine
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https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki (Windows installer provided by us)
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Tesseract - OCR Engine
use case by firefighters in Jesenwang
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Tesseract - OCR Engine
international visibility
TOP 10 countries | number of unique visits 2017-03 |
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China | 78 |
US | 49 |
Germany | 39 |
India | 33 |
Russia | 25 |
Japan | 16 |
France | 14 |
UK | 14 |
Vietnam | 13 |
Spain | 11 |
Usage statistics for digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/
559 visits in March 2017 from all over the world
Example reference from
Chinese website:
"In addition to being a collection of licences and legalese, the term “open source” is often used to describe the culture of open-source projects, in which there is an emphasis on working in an open and collaborative way, a focus on transparency and an effort to engage the community. As such, many of the principles of open source are well aligned with the core tenets of the open-science movement and academia more generally."
Questions, Comments?
Picture Credit
- https://pixabay.com/de/buch-bibliothek-piktogramm-symbol-160871/ (CC0)
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- https://pixabay.com/de/code-klammer-klammern-slash-gr%C3%B6%C3%9Fer-1970468/ (CC0)
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"linked open community" by Andromeda Yelton (SWIB 2016 talk)
https://andromedayelton.com/talks/swib16/ (CC-BY-SA 4.0) -
"Welcome : Welcome Mat" by alborzshawn https://www.flickr.com/photos/7502393@N04/472028910/ (CC-BY 2.0)
- https://pixabay.com/de/datenbank-daten-technologie-1928236/ (CC0)
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- https://pixabay.com/de/lotus-gew%C3%A4chshaus-waterlily-garten-917616/ (CC0)
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"Datacenter Work" by Leonardo Rizzi https://www.flickr.com/photos/stars6/4381851322/ (CC-BY-SA 2.0)
- screenshots and logos
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