using free and open source software to open data

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 they’re 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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Barron, S., 2015. ‘Implementing Kuali OLE at SOAS Library’ on Ariadne web magazine, 2015-06-29

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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: O’Reilly & 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.

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