scholarly journals The Right Tools for the Job: The Case for Spatial Science Tool-Building

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Boeing
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Network Science ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Spatial Network ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
The Right ◽  
Tool Building

This paper was presented as the 8th annual Transactions in GIS plenary address at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC. The spatial sciences have recently seen growing calls for more accessible software and tools that better embody geographic science and theory. Urban spatial network science offers one clear opportunity: from multiple perspectives, tools to model and analyze nonplanar urban spatial networks have traditionally been inaccessible, atheoretical, or otherwise limiting. This paper reflects on this state of the field. Then it discusses the motivation, experience, and outcomes of developing OSMnx, a tool intended to help address this. Next it reviews this tool's use in the recent multidisciplinary spatial network science literature to highlight upstream and downstream benefits of open‐source software development. Tool-building is an essential but poorly incentivized component of academic geography and social science more broadly. To conduct better science, we need to build better tools. The paper concludes with paths forward, emphasizing open-source software and reusable computational data science beyond mere reproducibility and replicability.

scholarly journals Correction to: Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Balazs Vedres ◽  
Orsolya Vasarhelyi
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Open Source Software Development ◽  
Central European ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
European University

Following publication of the original article [1], we have been notified that one more affiliation of the corresponding author is missing. Currently Balasz Vedres affiliation is: 1 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom It should be: 1 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2 Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Enterprise Resource Planning Under Open Source Software

2010 ◽  
pp. 1571-1589
Author(s):  
Ashley Davis
Keyword(s):  
Real Options ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Real Options Theory ◽  
The Right ◽  
Options Theory

Open source software is becoming more prevalent in businesses today, and while still a relatively immature offering, open source enterprise resource planning (OS-ERP) systems are becoming more common. However, whether or not an OS-ERP package is the right software for a given organization is a little researched question. Building on the current real options thinking about platform acquisitions, this chapter proposes the five most critical factors to consider when evaluating an OS-ERP package. To adequately do this, a great deal of detail about the current offerings in OS-ERP software is presented, followed by a review of the real options theory and thinking behind using these factors to evaluate OS-ERP options. The international implications of OS-ERP are presented in the “Future Trends” section.

scholarly journals On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo ◽  
Jordi Cabot
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Specific Subset ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
Role Based ◽  
The Right ◽  
Open Source Development

AbstractThe role of non-coding contributors in Open Source Software (OSS) is poorly understood. Most of current research around OSS development focuses on the coding aspects of the project (e.g., commits, pull requests or code reviews) while ignoring the potential of other types of contributions. Often, due to the assumption that these other contributions are not significant in number and that, in any case, they are handled by the same people that are also part of the “coding team”. This paper aims to investigate whether this is actually the case by analyzing the frequency and diversity of non-coding contributions in OSS development. As a sample of projects for our study we have taken the 100 most popular projects in the ecosystem of NPM, a package manager for JavaScript. Our results validate the importance of dedicated non-coding contributors in OSS and the diversity of OSS communities as, typically, a contributor specializes in a specific subset of roles. We foresee that projects adopting explicit policies to attract and onboard them could see a positive impact in their long-term sustainability providing they also put in place the right governance strategies to facilitate the migration and collaboration among the different roles. As part of this work, we also provide a replicability package to facilitate further quantitative role-based analysis by other researchers.

scholarly journals Big data processing using Open Source Software- A Questionnaire on the data science

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andrew McCullum
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
The World

In 2015, Central Asia made some vital enhancements in nature for cross-fringe e-business: Kazakhstan's promotion to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will help business straightforwardness, while the Kyrgyz Republic's enrollment in the Eurasian Customs Union grows its buyer base. Why e-business? Two reasons to begin with, e-trade diminishes the expense of separation. Focal Asia is the most elevated exchange cost locale on the planet: unlimited separations from real markets make discovering purchasers testing, shipping merchandise moderate, and fare costs high. Second, e-business can pull in populaces that are customarily under-spoke to in fare markets, for example, ladies, little organizations and rustic business visionaries.

Enterprise Resource Planning Under Open Source Software

2011 ◽  
pp. 56-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Davis
Keyword(s):  
Real Options ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Real Options Theory ◽  
The Right ◽  
Options Theory

Open source software is becoming more prevalent in businesses today, and while still a relatively immature offering, open source enterprise resource planning (OS-ERP) systems are becoming more common. However, whether or not an OS-ERP package is the right software for a given organization is a little researched question. Building on the current real options thinking about platform acquisitions, this chapter proposes the five most critical factors to consider when evaluating an OS-ERP package. To adequately do this, a great deal of detail about the current offerings in OS-ERP software is presented, followed by a review of the real options theory and thinking behind using these factors to evaluate OS-ERP options. The international implications of OS-ERP are presented in the “Future Trends” section.

The Statistical Analysis of Misreporting on Sensitive Survey Questions

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Eady
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Multivariate Regression ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
Direct Question ◽  
Inherent Problem ◽  
List Experiment ◽  
The Right

What explains why some survey respondents answer truthfully to a sensitive survey question, while others do not? This question is central to our understanding of a wide variety of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, but has remained difficult to investigate empirically due to the inherent problem of distinguishing those who are telling the truth from those who are misreporting. This article proposes a solution to this problem. It develops a method to model, within a multivariate regression context, whether survey respondents provide one response to a sensitive item in a list experiment, but answer otherwise when asked to reveal that belief openly in response to a direct question. As an empirical application, the method is applied to an original large-scale list experiment to investigate whether those on the ideological left are more likely to misreport their responses to questions about prejudice than those on the right. The method is implemented for researchers as open-source software.

scholarly journals Opportunities to observe and measure intangible inputs to innovation: Definitions, operationalization, and examples

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (50) ◽  
pp. 12638-12645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sallie Keller ◽  
Gizem Korkmaz ◽  
Carol Robbins ◽  
Stephanie Shipp
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
First Case ◽  
Science Framework

Measuring the value of intangibles is not easy, because they are critical but usually invisible components of the innovation process. Today, access to nonsurvey data sources, such as administrative data and repositories captured on web pages, opens opportunities to create intangibles based on new sources of information and capture intangible innovations in new ways. Intangibles include ownership of innovative property and human resources that make a company unique but are currently unmeasured. For example, intangibles represent the value of a company’s databases and software, the tacit knowledge of their workers, and the investments in research and development (R&D) and design. Through two case studies, the challenges and processes to both create and measure intangibles are presented using a data science framework that outlines processes to discover, acquire, profile, clean, link, explore the fitness-for-use, and statistically analyze the data. The first case study shows that creating organizational innovation is possible by linking administrative data across business processes in a Fortune 500 company. The motivation for this research is to develop company processes capable of synchronizing their supply chain end to end while capturing dynamics that can alter the inventory, profits, and service balance. The second example shows the feasibility of measurement of innovation related to the characteristics of open source software through data scraped from software repositories that provide this information. The ultimate goal is to develop accurate and repeatable measures to estimate the value of nonbusiness sector open source software to the economy. This early work shows the feasibility of these approaches.

Free and Open Source Software Movements as Agents of an Alternative Use of Copyright Law

2017 ◽  
pp. 253-270
Author(s):  
Pedro Pina
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
The Right ◽  
Collaboration Platforms

Digital technology produced a move from a performative model to a player-as producer paradigm since it has potentiated user-generated transformative uses of intellectual works. In fact, sharing, sampling, remixing and creating new derivative content through digital network collaboration platforms are today pillars of the so-called “age of remix”. However, when unauthorized, such activities may constitute copyright infringement since the making available right and the right to make new derivative works are exclusive rights granted by copyright law. A restrictive exercise of exclusive rights may hinder the implementation of online platforms envisioned to facilitate access to knowledge and to potentiate the creation of new works. The present chapter analyzes the creation the importance of online communities of practice using free/open source software licenses like GNU GPL or Creative Commons Licenses as agents of an alternative and less rigid exercise of the powers granted by copyright law in favor of a freer system of creation and dissemination of creative works in the digital world.

Open Source Software Evaluation

2009 ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Karin van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Software Evaluation ◽  
Intended Purpose ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
Insight Into

If a person or corporation decides to use open source software for a certain purpose, nowadays the choice in software is large and still growing. In order to choose the right software package for the intended purpose, one will need to have insight and evaluate the software package choices. This chapter provides an insight into open source software and its development to those who wish to evaluate it. Using existing literature on open source software evaluation, a list of nine evaluation criteria is derived including community, security, license, and documentation. In the second section, these criteria and their relevance for open source software evaluation are explained. Finally, the future of open source software evaluation is discussed.

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