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Writing Open Source Software

Writing Open Source Software. David Kane WIT Libraries. What is ‘Open Source’?. Universal and free access to the design or blueprint of a product, including all subsequent improvements.

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Writing Open Source Software

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  1. Writing Open Source Software David Kane WIT Libraries

  2. What is ‘Open Source’? • Universal and free access to the design or blueprint of a product, including all subsequent improvements. • A form of ‘Open Collaboration’ where a group of loosely affiliated individuals work towards a common goal.

  3. What is ‘Open Source Software’? • Universal and free access to the Source Codeof a program, including all subsequent improvements. • A form of ‘Open Collaboration’ where a group of loosely affiliated individuals work towards a common goal.

  4. My Story • Open Source Projects can be big and they can be small. They all solve a problem though. • I had a problem that needed to be solved.

  5. The Problem

  6. The Problem

  7. What I Wanted

  8. Reaching Out • SWORD • Simple Web Service Offering Repository Deposit • EasyDeposit (Last Release June ‘11) • An implementation of SWORD • Did not work in my case • Many files and folders • Not as simple as I wanted

  9. Reaching Out • Eprints Tech Mailing List (Feb 2013). • Discussions on SWORD relating to ingest of various data and file formats. • Suggestions made by some to re-write some of the code in EPrints itself. • Got speaking to Tommy Ingulfsen of Caltech • Similar Problem to our own. • After a campus-wide upgrade and migration process, their old SWORD interface no longer worked.

  10. Sherman M. Fairchild Library

  11. 4,986 miles

  12. Tommy Ingulfsen • Applications Developer in Caltech Library • From Tromsø in the Far North of Norway 69° North. • Via University in England • To California

  13. Sierra Madre Mountain Rescue: Volunteer of the year 2012: Tommy Ingulfsen

  14. Our Solution

  15. https://github.com/davidfkane/eprintsDepositHelper/

  16. Writing Open Source Software David Kane WIT Libraries dkane@wit.ie

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