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Open Source Software and Libraries:
Enabling Arabic Libraries & Creating Opportunities
Massoud M. AlShareef massoudalshareef@wordpress.com
KnowledgeWARE Technologies
SLA 2011
Why Open Source Software and Libraries ?
What is an Integrated Library System (ILS) ?
List
Library Technologies
• Integrated Library System
• Federated Search (MetaSearch)
• OpenURL – COinS
• ILL & Document Delivery
• Ask-a-Librarian – Reference Librarian
• Consortia and Union Catalogs
• Context Management
• Digital Archiving
• BI – Business Intelligence
• ERM – Electronic Resource Management
• (Blogs, RSS, Tags, Wiki, Mashups, etc.)
Library & Archiving Protocols and Formats
Formats أوعية المعلومات
• MARC21 21مارك
• Duplin Core
• MARCXML
• MODS / MADS
• EAC/ EAD
• RDA
• FRBR
Protocols البروتوكوالت
• Z39.50 / SRU / SRW
• Bath Profile
• OpenURL
• COinS
• X12 (EDI)
• SIP2 (RFID, PDA)
• OAI-PMH
• OpenSearch
History of mergers and acquisitions in the library automation industry
)Marshall Breeding (Created by
OSS and Libraries have in common..
• Free Redistribution • Source Code • Derived Works • Integrity of The Author's Source • No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups • No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor • Distribution of License • License Must Not Be Specific to a
Product • License Must Not Restrict Other Software
• License Must Be Technology‐Neutral
Microsoft exec: The world runs on Software
"There is no question that the world runs on software," said Bob Muglia, president of the server and tools business at Microsoft, in unveiling Visual Studio 2010 at an event in Las Vegas, on APRIL 12, 2010. "Just look around you. Look at everything, look at all the devices we use, the systems we interact with." Everything is powered by software and "developers are the ones who make it all happen," Muglia said. "As I said, software powers the world, so that means that developers are the engine behind what powers the world," he said.
How Libraries understand Open Source Software ?
What is Open Source ?
What is Open Source ?
process promise quality reliability
flexibility lower costvendor lock-in
Jim Whitehurst , President and CEO of Red Hat.
http://connect.educause.edu/display/47941
What is Free Software ?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
What is Open Source Software ?
-http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral bazaar/-bazaar/cathedral
Open Source Governance
Open Source Community
Open Source CrowdSourcing
Howe, J. (2008). Crowdsourcing: Why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business. New York:
Crown Business. p.8
Who’s Using Open Source?
Open Source in Business
Open Source on the Web
Why should libraries care?
Open Source & Libraries
http://www.lugod.org/presentations/oss4lib.pdf
http://www.linux.com/feature/59491place
Open Source & Libraries
We should reclaim the domain of library
technology from the commercial and
proprietary realms
Can you
think of any other group of institutions that
share their stuff the way we do through ILL?
OSS & Libraries - preserving the intellectual ‘commons’
pln.palinet.org/wiki/index.php/Open_source_planshttp://. Lucia, J --
OSS and Libraries have in common..
• Free Redistribution • Source Code • Derived Works • Integrity of The Author's Source • No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups • No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor • Distribution of License • License Must Not Be Specific to a
Product • License Must Not Restrict Other Software
• License Must Be Technology‐Neutral
Open Source Concerns
90K Saudi
Software
Developers
(Riyadh)
Isn’t Open Source Risky ?
284 days
nine days
Quote Monday, January 25, 2010: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/internet_e
xplorer_unsafe_for_2.html
Isn’t Open Source Risky ?
Give me a Library OSS example
Koha – Integrated Library Management System
April 18th, 2010 by Chris Cormack
Koha is an active project. Koha Project stats to date
• 12640 commits • 4773 files • 558966 lines of code • 2636 Bugs fixed • 110 Different people committing • 100’s of translators, translating thousands and thousands
of lines
Maps of libraries: 2000+ Registered Koha ILS Sites
www.librarytechnology.org/map.pl?ILS=Kohahttp://
Koha Community
Let’s us take a closer look at Koha.. and Arabic Koha!
Koha OPAC – Online Public Access Catalog
New titles/recent acquisitions .
Tag Cloud
Users can tag items from the search results or item details page. Aggregated user tags are then presented as a cloud for other patrons to use.
Item details screen
Patrons can rate items on a 5-star scale. Ratings are then aggregated across all users and made visible to other patrons.
Patron comments
Patrons can log in and write comments/reviews for items. Reviews are moderated by librarians.
Most Popular Titles/ Topics/ Author/ Type
Shelf browser
Reaching out for Users who cannot come to Libraries: hello Saudi female Library lovers !!
Shared booklists/recommended reading
Patrons can create booklists out of collections of items, which they can then share with all users. Teachers can use this feature to compile recommended reading lists for courses.
RSS Feeds
Search results and lists of tagged items automatically generate RSS feeds which can then be used to generate up-to-date lists.
Integration with Librarything
Interoperability – Beyond Books
A feature in Koha that does a parallel search of Kete (OSS - community digital Library) along side search results from its catalog.
Recommendations
When looking for people with similar taste, click recommendations to see similar items, based on tagging, patron history, subject keywords and rating.
‘I really like this book; have you got anything
similar?’
Interoperability – Beyond Books
Kete administrator configured sources (search aggregation sources like Koha RSS , Twitter, or anything that uses OpenSearch standard).
How long Should we wait on closed
Commercial Software vendors in order to keep up with new
technologies?
Arabic Language Requirements – Searching/ Sorting
• Normalize : "ي ى“ " و، ؤ" , " ه ، ة" , " أ ، إ ، ا" ,
• Multiple Pre-fixes
• Ignore: Kashida “-” , Vowles
• Ignore: Alif Laam الـ
• Original Ali Lamm (Exception)
حمدأحمد ا – ه مدين ة مدين – يعل ىعل
اـ ْوهـ كوها ك –ة مدينة ــــــــــــــــنـديـم
مدينةالمدينة
Pre-fixes/ Post-fixes السوابق واللواحق
Stemming المشتقات
مدينةوالمدينة للمدينة فالمدينة بالمدينة المدينة
كسندرال هللا
ونمعلم ينمعلم انمعلم اتمعلم ة معلم معلم
م العا اءم علميم علولم علاعلم ع
Koha and the Arabic Language Support
Koha and the Arabic Language Support
International Components for Unicode -ICU
Arabic Koha Community
Give me more examples of
FOSS tools for libraries…
FOSS Tools for Libraries
FOSS Tools for Libraries
FOSS Tools for Libraries
FOSS Tools for Libraries
FOSS Tools for Libraries
FOSS Tools for Libraries
FOSS Tools for Libraries
FOSS Tools for Libraries
FOSS Tools for Libraries
Thank you
Massoud M. AlShareef massoudalshareef@wordpress.com
KnowledgeWARE Technologies
Int’l FOSST Workshop 2010
April 25, 2010, KACST, RIYADH, KSA
Media and Slides Credits
http://www.slideshare.net/nengard/libraries-open-source-freedom-and-community
• http://www.slideshare.net/sirexkat/open-source-software-and-libraries?src=related_normal&rel=2753554
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cindy47452/3682949582/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr/3993439584/
http://tinyurl.com/3jvumn • Nstolma, Library Openeing 2,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavort/151687944/ • Gwen's River City Images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntie/102849109/