scholarly journals Open Sourcing Proprietary Application Case Study: KIRI Website

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Pascal Alfadian Nugroho ◽  
Vania Natali
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Open Source Project ◽  
Commercial Purpose ◽  
Closed Source

KIRI, a previously closed source project, is a web-based public transport navigation application that serves Bandung and other cities in Indonesia. It was originally made for commercial purpose, but relatively unsuccessful. Rather than shutting it down, we transformed KIRI to an open source project. In this paper we explain such process of transformation. First, we identified technical infrastructures required by an open source project by literature review. Then, we surveyed various existing open source projects in Indonesia in terms of their completeness in technical infrastructure. Based on findings from literature review and survey, we converted KIRI into an open source project. Finally, we checked final result of this transformation, to ensure everything worked well. There were some problems found after conversion, and had been fixed accordingly. Further research is needed to see if the open sourced KIRI can attract community participation.

Dependencies, Networks, and Priorities in an Open Source Project

2011 ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
Juha Järvensivu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Network Characteristics ◽  
Project Networks ◽  
Open Source Project ◽  
Project Network ◽  
Network Studies

Dependencies between modern software projects are common. Jointly, such dependencies form a project network, where changes in one project cause changes to the others belonging to the same project network. This chapter discusses the issues of dependencies, distances, and priorities in open source project networks, from the standpoint of both technological and social networks. Thus, a multidisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of open source software (OSS) development is offered. There is a strong empirical focus maintained, since the aim of the chapter is to analyze OSS network characteristics through an in-depth, qualitative case study of one specifi c open source community: the Open Source Eclipse plug-in project Laika. In our analysis, we will introduce both internal and external networks associated with Laika, together with a discussion of how tightly they are intertwined. We will analyze both the internal and the external networks through the elements of mutuality, interdependence, distance, priorities, different power relations, and investments made in the relationships—elements chosen on the basis of analysis of the network studies literature.

scholarly journals Do Open Source Developers Respond to Competition? The LATEX Case Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Gaudeul
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Network Externalities ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Open Source Project ◽  
History Of

This paper traces the history of TEX, the open source typesetting program. TEX was an early and very successful open source project that imposed its standards in a particularly competitive environment and inspired many advances in the typesetting industry. Developed over three decades, TEX came into competition with a variety of open source and proprietary alternatives. I argue from this case study that open source developers derive direct and indirect network externalities from the use of their software by others and must therefore consider non-developers' needs to make their software more attractive to a broader audience and more competitive with proprietary alternatives.

scholarly journals The Scientific Comparison between Web-Based Site and Web-Builder (Open Source) Project: Functionalities, Usability, Design and Security

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aso Mohammed Aladdin ◽  
Chnoor M. Rahman ◽  
Mzhda S. Abdulkarim
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Open Source Project ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Web

In developing web sites there are some rules that developers should depend on in order to create a site suitable to the users’ needs and also to make them as comfort as possible when they surf it. Before creating any website or operating any application, it is important for developers to address the functionality, design, usability and security of the work according to the demands.  Every developer has his/her own way to develop a website, some prefer to use website builders and while others prefer to what they have primarily formed in their mind What they have primarily formed in their mind preferred software and programming languages. Therefore, this paper will compare the web based sites and open source projects in terms of functionality, usability, design and security in order to help academic staffs or business organization for choosing the best way for developing an academic or e-commerce web site.  

scholarly journals The Power of Many

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Rick L. Edgeman ◽  
Kunal Y. Sevak ◽  
Nik Grewy Jensen ◽  
Toke Engell Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Collective Innovation ◽  
Task Specification ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Collective Engagement

Collective efforts of masses provide access to funding and ideas. While such endeavors in a business-to-customer context are well-described, they are less well understood in other contexts such as business-to-business. A literature review that exacts knowledge and inspiration from B2C crowdsourcing and other forms of collective innovation is used. This review generates new knowledge to close this gap and develops a 6-stage innovation framework for Collective Engagement, Intelligence & Innovation (CEI^2) that begins with task specification and concludes with management of inputs generated from the CEI^2 efforts. The framework and the accompanying list of questions may be used by theorists to explore different contexts, and for managers to structure B2B or P2P crowdsourcing more effectively. Contributions of this study include exploration of the theoretical areas of open-source innovation that extend beyond a B2C model, and new ways of effectively structuring CEI^2. Further research may explore the CEI^2 framework through a case study or test it through quantitative study.

scholarly journals 3D SAFE ROUTING NAVIGATION APPLICATION FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS BASED ON OPEN SOURCE TOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol VI-4/W2-2020 ◽  
pp. 143-147
Author(s):  
T. Santhanavanich ◽  
P. Wuerstle ◽  
J. Silberer ◽  
V. Loidl ◽  
P. Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Road ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
2D And 3D ◽  
Safe Routing

Abstract. The recent advancement in Information & Communication Technology (ICT) is seen as a critical enabler to design intelligent smart cities targeting different domains. One such domain is modes of transport in a city. Currently, various cities around the world are envisioning innovative ways to reduce emissions in the cities by increasing physically active mobility. However, there is still limited information about the safety of cyclists and pedestrians within city limits. To address this, we develop a 3D web-based safe routing tool called Vision Zero. Our concept prototype used Augsburg city, Germany, as a case study. The implementation is based on open-source tools. In the back-end, the OGC 3D Portrayal Service standard helps to deliver and integrate various 2D and 3D geospatial contents on a web-based client using CesiumJS. The OGC SensorThings API (STAPI) standard is used to manage historical and real-time open road-incident data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. The navigation system is built up based on the routing engine pgRouting, which calculates the safest route based on the mentioned STAPI server and the road-network dataset from OpenStreetMap.

scholarly journals A Survey of Geospatial Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1471-1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikrom Nishanbaev ◽  
Erik Champion ◽  
David A. McMeekin
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
Resource Description

The amount of digital cultural heritage data produced by cultural heritage institutions is growing rapidly. Digital cultural heritage repositories have therefore become an efficient and effective way to disseminate and exploit digital cultural heritage data. However, many digital cultural heritage repositories worldwide share technical challenges such as data integration and interoperability among national and regional digital cultural heritage repositories. The result is dispersed and poorly-linked cultured heritage data, backed by non-standardized search interfaces, which thwart users’ attempts to contextualize information from distributed repositories. A recently introduced geospatial semantic web is being adopted by a great many new and existing digital cultural heritage repositories to overcome these challenges. However, no one has yet conducted a conceptual survey of the geospatial semantic web concepts for a cultural heritage audience. A conceptual survey of these concepts pertinent to the cultural heritage field is, therefore, needed. Such a survey equips cultural heritage professionals and practitioners with an overview of all the necessary tools, and free and open source semantic web and geospatial semantic web platforms that can be used to implement geospatial semantic web-based cultural heritage repositories. Hence, this article surveys the state-of-the-art geospatial semantic web concepts, which are pertinent to the cultural heritage field. It then proposes a framework to turn geospatial cultural heritage data into machine-readable and processable resource description framework (RDF) data to use in the geospatial semantic web, with a case study to demonstrate its applicability. Furthermore, it outlines key free and open source semantic web and geospatial semantic platforms for cultural heritage institutions. In addition, it examines leading cultural heritage projects employing the geospatial semantic web. Finally, the article discusses attributes of the geospatial semantic web that require more attention, that can result in generating new ideas and research questions for both the geospatial semantic web and cultural heritage fields.

Open Source Developer Layer Assessment

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Aminat Abiola Showole
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Open Source Project ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Hit Rate ◽  
Open Source Development

Open Source developers play fundamental determinant role in the life of any open source project. This paper investigates developer motivation in contributing tirelessly to an open source project. Open source Onions were investigated and the developer layer modeled and validated based on ten case studies from SourceForge. Validation was based on Delphi's four rounds of successive stages. Results show that 62% of the developers around an open source development project community are skilled programmers, and that Open source developers are largely motivated by web based development platforms with universal programming language such as Java and that Developers are mostly attracted to the GPL licensed software development project with high project publicity as could be tracked from the hit rate on the project website. Finally, the few Core developers (Project Administrators) of about 19% actually controls and oversees the affairs carried out by about 81% of many developers showing the prominence of Pareto80/20 Principle in Open Source Project development.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document