What is Open Source?
Who is using Open Source?
Open Source Community and Governance
Why should libraries care?
Library Software Overview
Open Source and Library Software today
Open Source and Arabic Libraries today
Why should Arabic libraries care even more?
Arabic Library Software Success Stories
Creating Opportunities: Open Source Software should play a role in driving our National ICT Strategy?
6. History of mergers and acquisitions in the library automation industry
(Created by Marshall Breeding)
7. 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
8. 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.
11. What is Open Source ?
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
12. What is Open Source ?
process promise
quality reliability
flexibility lower cost
vendor lock-in
Jim Whitehurst , President and CEO of Red Hat.
http://connect.educause.edu/display/47941
13. What is Free Software ?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fre
e-sw.html
http://www.opensource.org/docs/d
efinition.php
14. What is Open Source Software ?
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-
bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
17. 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
24. Open Source & Libraries
http://www.lugod.org/presentations/oss4lib.pdf
http://www.linux.com/feature/59491place
25. OSS & Libraries - preserving the intellectual ‘commons’
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?
-- Lucia, J. http://pln.palinet.org/wiki/index.php/Open_source_plans
26. 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
28. 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
31. 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
35. Let’s us take a closer look at
Koha.. and Arabic Koha!
36. Koha OPAC – Online Public Access Catalog
New titles/recent acquisitions
.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. Patron comments
Patrons can log in and write comments/reviews for
items. Reviews are moderated by librarians.
42. 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.
43. RSS Feeds
Search results and lists of tagged items automatically generate RSS feeds
which can then be used to generate up-to-date lists.
45. 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.
46. Recommendations
‘I really like this book;
have you got anything
similar?’
When looking for people with similar taste, click
recommendations to see similar items, based on tagging,
patron history, subject keywords and rating.
47. Interoperability – Beyond Books
How long Should
we wait on closed
Commercial Software
vendors in order to
keep up with new
technologies?
Kete administrator configured sources (search aggregation sources like
Koha RSS , Twitter, or anything that uses OpenSearch standard).
48. Arabic Language Requirements – Searching/ Sorting
السوابق واللواحق Pre-fixes/ Post-fixes
"أ ، إ ، ا" ,"ه ، ة" ,"و، ؤ" ,"ي ى“ : • Normalize
على علي – مدينة مدينه – احمد أحمد
مدينة المدينة بالمدينة فالمدينة للمدينة والمدينة • Multiple Pre-fixes
ْ
مدينة – كوها كـوهـا • Ignore: Kashida “-” , Vowles مـديـنــــــــــــــــة
الـ • Ignore: Alif Laam مدينة المدينة
)• Original Ali Lamm (Exception الكسندر هللا
المشتقات Stemming
معلم معلمة معلمات معلمان معلمين معلمون
علم عالم علوم عليم علماء اعالم