Event Title
Comrades in the Commons: Creating an Organizational Culture Conducive to Open Source Development
Location
Thad Cochran Center 216
Presentation Type
Concurrent Session
Start Date
27-4-2018 1:00 PM
Description
Open Source software has always been a popular topic of discussion within libraries, but with Elsevier's recent purchase of Bepress and the circulating suggestion that libraries ought to set aside 2.5% of their budget to support an open scholarly commons infrastructure, more libraries are looking into Open Source technology for IRs than ever before. This presentation will draw upon the experience of Florida State Unversity Libraries' migration from Digital Commons to Islandora to explore why Open Source is a good thing for the future of libraries, as well as the organizational culture libraries must adopt towards Open Source in order to deliver on its promise.
Comrades in the Commons: Creating an Organizational Culture Conducive to Open Source Development
Thad Cochran Center 216
Open Source software has always been a popular topic of discussion within libraries, but with Elsevier's recent purchase of Bepress and the circulating suggestion that libraries ought to set aside 2.5% of their budget to support an open scholarly commons infrastructure, more libraries are looking into Open Source technology for IRs than ever before. This presentation will draw upon the experience of Florida State Unversity Libraries' migration from Digital Commons to Islandora to explore why Open Source is a good thing for the future of libraries, as well as the organizational culture libraries must adopt towards Open Source in order to deliver on its promise.
Comments
Bryan J. Brown is a repository developer at Florida State University's Technology and Digital Scholarship Division where he works on DigiNole, FSU's Digital Library and IR platform built on top of Islandora. Bryan is also an Islandora Committer and active member of the community through participation on the Islandora Technical Advisory Group and Coordinating Committee, as well as co-chair of the Islandora IR and DevOps Interest Groups. His research interests include open source software development, user experience design, digital preservation and linked data/semantic web technologies.