Functionality Analysis of an Open Source Repository System: Current Practices and Implications

Chen, Hsin‐Liang; Zhang, Yin

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2014.09.012

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“…The preliminary results of this study show that data management and curation is an issue shared globally. Previous research revealed that about 21% of the digital repositories are for data sets (Chen & Zhang, ), this study shows that academic institutions and government agencies are taking a lead in making their data repositories available. Due to lack of standards, current practices of data management and curation vary significantly by institutions, use cases, and system functions in implementations.…”

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confidence: 58%

Data management and curation practices: The case of using DSpace and implications

Zhang

Chen

2015

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Data management and curation is a new challenge with the emerging trend of data-dependent scholarly research. Due to the lack of common standards and best practices, current data management and curation practices have been varied. This poster presents a project that examines the common practices of data management and curation that helps understand the scope of and factors behind such variations. The sample of this study consists of 171 unique data repositories created by 164 institutions from 95 countries worldwide. The preliminary results indicate that data management and curation is a global issue. Currently, academic institutions and government agencies are the leading force in contributing and sharing data. Data repositories are used for various purposes with international repository and learning resources being the most common use cases. Additionally, system functions used to manage data repositories vary to a great extent with statistics and OAI harvesting being the most common ones.

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Data management and curation practices: The case of using DSpace and implications

Zhang

Chen

2015

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…Open source has long been linked to academic institutions [25], including libraries [5,34], research centers [33,35], and the classroom [43]. Version control systems such as git have been interesting tools to assist in classroom learning [7,18], including computer science [11,26] and statistics [2] courses.…”

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The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative

Trujillo

Bagrow

2022

EPJ Data Sci.

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GitHub has become the central online platform for much of open source, hosting most open source code repositories. With this popularity, the public digital traces of GitHub are now a valuable means to study teamwork and collaboration. In many ways, however, GitHub is a convenience sample, and may not be representative of open source development off the platform. Here we develop a novel, extensive sample of public open source project repositories outside of centralized platforms. We characterized these projects along a number of dimensions, and compare to a time-matched sample of corresponding GitHub projects. Our sample projects tend to have more collaborators, are maintained for longer periods, and tend to be more focused on academic and scientific problems.

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“…The results of this study reported that a majority of the institutions in India were using OSS for management of library operations. Chen and Zhang (2014) discussed the steps of building an IR. They stated that minimum steps and efforts are required to build an IR.…”

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Open source software adoption for development of institutional repositories in university libraries of Islamabad

Khan

Sheikh

2022

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Purpose This study aims to explore the present status of open-source institutional repository (IR) software’s usage in the university libraries of Islamabad. This study also investigates the views, satisfaction level and challenges of librarians in the adoption and use of IR software. Design/methodology/approach A survey was conducted to collect data from the Library Information Science (LIS) professionals working in the university libraries of Islamabad. Data were collected from all library professionals of the Islamabad university libraries by using a structured questionnaire. Out of the total 104 LIS professionals, 84 participated in the study with a response ratio of 80.76%. Findings The findings disclose that out of 23 universities recognized by Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Islamabad, 17 (public and private) have developed IRs. Currently, university libraries that have fully implemented the IRs are less as compared with those universities that have partially implemented IR software. However, a good number of university libraries are in the process to develop IRs. Free and open-source software is being used mostly in libraries as compared with in-house developed, locally developed or commercial software. The opinion of librarians about using IR software expressed a positive attitude of librarians. Some of the major challenges encountered by the librarians in using open-source IR software include selection of suitable software and materials for digitization, lack of cooperation from the parent organization, inadequate training opportunities and lack of skilled staff. Research limitations/implications This study is geographically limited to the university libraries in Islamabad. Practical implications This study will encourage the Pakistani LIS professionals to use open-source software for the development of IRs in their libraries. Originality/value This study concludes that the development of IRs in university libraries is a need of the hour. Although the launching of IRs requires certain skills and competencies, Pakistani librarians can overcome these challenges by mastering the ICT skills.

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Functionality Analysis of an Open Source Repository System: Current Practices and Implications

Cited by 6 publications

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Data management and curation practices: The case of using DSpace and implications

Data management and curation practices: The case of using DSpace and implications

The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative

Open source software adoption for development of institutional repositories in university libraries of Islamabad

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