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Did someone say “Free Beer”?!

Dave Pattern, Library Systems ManagerUniversity of Huddersfield

[email protected]

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Preamble• Presentation available at:

– www.slideshare.net/daveyp/• Please remix and reuse this

presentation– creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

• Have you remembered to switch your phone on?– please feel free take photos, record audio,

blog, tweet (@daveyp), etc

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Contents• Free beer, free kittens and free

speech• Freeconomics• Open Source and Me• Open Source in Libraries• Web Services and APIs• Usage Data -> Open Data

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free beer

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www.flickr.com/photos/chiefmoamba/59994463/

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www.flickr.com/photos/42934556@N00/245866252/

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www.flickr.com/photos/timusan/803492184/

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Free beer• Open Source software is usually free

to download

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free kittensWarning:

the following slides contain images of a highly cute nature

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www.flickr.com/photos/clevergrrl/218312595/

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www.flickr.com/photos/purplemattfish/3163793691/

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www.flickr.com/photos/merlijnhoek/2841785343/

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www.flickr.com/photos/merlijnhoek/2789604490/

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www.flickr.com/photos/artolog/2473548737/

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www.flickr.com/photos/geoftheref/3227445097/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/onefromrome/526057954/

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www.flickr.com/photos/alasam/2463625340/

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Free kittens• It might be free to download, but there’s

no such thing as a “free lunch” ;-)– p.s. thanks to PTFS for the free lunch

• You’ll need hardware to run the Open Source software on

• You’ll need to spend time maintaining it, supporting it, upgrading it, developing it, etc

• You’ll need to bribe the IT Dept with cakes

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free speech

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www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/384398069/

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www.flickr.com/photos/ifovea/3500343296/

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www.flickr.com/photos/squishy/2955317957/

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Free speech• “Free software is a matter of liberty,

not price…– freedom to run the software for any

purpose– freedom to study how the software

works, and adapt it to your needs– freedom to redistribute copies– freedom to improve the software, and to

release your improvements, so that the whole community benefits”

www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

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freeconomics

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A Tale of 2 (Capa)citiesIBM Deskstar• June 2000• £125• 20GB

£6.25 per GB£6,250 per TB

Hitachi Deskstar• July 2008• £95• 1000GB (1TB)

10p per GB£95 per TB

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A Tale of 3 (Capa)citiesIBM Deskstar• June 2000• £125• 20GB

£6.25 per GB£6,250 per TB

Seagate Barracuda

• June 2009• £97.50• 1500GB (1.5TB)

6½p per GB£65 per TB

Hitachi Deskstar• July 2008• £95• 1000GB (1TB)

10p per GB£95 per TB

What will the price per GB/TB be next year? How about in 5 years?

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Can you spot the trend? ;-)

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Free: The Future of a Radical Price

“In the future, [Anderson] argues, when we talk of the ‘money economy’ we will talk of the ‘reputation economy’ and the ‘time economy’ in the same breath.”

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Open Sourceand Me

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Software that I use regularly…

• Perl (GNU General Public License)• Firefox (GNU General Public License)• MySQL (GNU General Public License)• Apache (Apache Licence)

– mod_perl– Lucene– Solr

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http://www.cpan.org/

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http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Business-ISBN

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http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/MARC-Record

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Open Sourcein Libraries

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VuFind

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/

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More “free” software• ERMes

Electronic Resource Management (ERM) Software– University of Wisconsin-La Crosse– “free”, but requires Microsoft Access

• Meeting Room Booking System– GNU GPL

• MarcEdit– not Open Source, but free to

download/use

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Web Servicesand APIs

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What can you get for free?• LibraryThing

– thingISBN, a million book covers, thingTitle• Talis

– Talis Platform• OCLC

– xISBN and xISSN (limit on the # of requests)

• Amazon– Amazon Associates Web Service

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Usage Data

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Keyword cloud

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Keyword suggestions (2)

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Borrowing suggestions

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Personalised suggestions

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E-journal data (alpha)

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Keyword cloud

Average number of clicks per month

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Borrowing profile

Average book loans per month (2002-2008)

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Borrowing suggestions

Average number of clicks per month

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Borrowing range profile

Number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year

recommendation features added to OPAC at start of 2006

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Books per active borrower

Average number of books borrowed per active borrower per calendar year

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Open Data…or “if you love something, set it free”

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Linked data• “There are data in every aspect of our lives,

every aspect of work and pleasure, and it's not just about the number of places where data comes, it's about connecting it together. And when you connect data together, you get power in a way that doesn't happen just with the web, with documents. You get this really huge power out of it. So, we're at the stage now where we have to do this.”

- Sir Tim Berners-Lee (TED Conference, 2009) http://tinyurl.com/bxua4r

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Copyleft• “Copyleft is a play on the word

copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.”– Creative Commons– GNU General Public License

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

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No strings attached• CC0

– “…a legal tool for waiving as many rights as legally possible, worldwide”

• Open Data Commons– “…a philosophy and practice requiring

that certain data are freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control”

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0http://www.opendatacommons.org

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Huddersfield’s data release• Prompted by the JISC Tile Project• http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/

– aggregated data for 2 million circulation transactions, covering around 80,000 titles

– recommendation data for over 37,000 titles

– simple XML format– Open Data Commons / CC0 licence

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Usage data release• Released on 12th Dec

– converted to RDF by Patrick Murray-John at University of Mary Washington 2 days later!

– Talis podcast at http://bit.ly/z6yjF

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What next?• What other usage data is out there?

– reading lists– OpenURL resolvers

• What are the barriers to releasing/sharing data…– technical, logistical, moral, political,

institutional, privacy …?

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What next?• What are the benefits…

– better business intelligence for librarians– creation of innovative new services– enrichment of existing services– end-user empowerment &

personalisation …?• JISC Mosaic Project

- watch this space!

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Thank you!

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