Open source software as a mature library system in Armenia

Infolib ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Anna Chulyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Efficient Organization ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
High Level

The article touches upon the importance of long-term digital preservation of Armenian cultural heritage through creation of digital repositories using Open-Source Software in Armenian libraries. The research highlights the advantages of Open-Source Software in context of providing free access to digital materials, as well as its high level of functionality in order to empower libraries with new technologies for more efficient organization and dissemination of information.

scholarly journals Public Works Heritage 3D Model Digitisation, Optimisation and Dissemination with Free and Open-Source Software and Platforms and Low-Cost Tools

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13020
Author(s):  
Sara Peinado-Santana ◽  
Patricia Hernández-Lamas ◽  
Jorge Bernabéu-Larena ◽  
Beatriz Cabau-Anchuelo ◽  
José Antonio Martín-Caro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
3D Model ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Public Works ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
3D Digitisation

This paper describes an innovative, accessible, and sustainable method for enhancing cultural heritage. Documenting and disseminating the public works heritage have now come of age, digitally speaking, with the adoption of new technologies both to further research on and heighten the esteem attributed to the public works heritage. Nonetheless, academic discourse rarely describes procedures for the 3D digitisation of heritage works comprehensible to non-expert readers with limited resources. Taking that premise as a starting point, with special attention to the determinants of the public works heritage, this article aims to define the general, open-source methodology covering 3D model data capture, information processing and optimisation. The article also discusses model dissemination strategies using free platforms and low-cost tools. The general discussion is illustrated with the case study of Ariza Bridge in Spain. This Renaissance-style structure dates from the second half of the sixteenth century. Despite its listing as a cultural heritage asset, the monument was flooded by the Giribaile reservoir waters in 1998 and is now only wholly visible during droughts. The application, developed with open-source software and implemented with free platforms and low-cost tools, features geo-referencing and is designed to be accessible to non-expert users. The methodology proposed is intended as a suitable instrument for the sustainable study, valorisation and dissemination of the built heritage.

veraPDF: building an open source, industry supported PDF/A validator for cultural heritage institutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Wilson ◽  
Rebecca McGuinness ◽  
Joachim Jung
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Standard File Format ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
The Eu

Purpose This paper describes the development of the veraPDF validator. The objective of veraPDF is to build an industry supported, open source validator for all parts and conformance levels of the PDF/A specification for archival PDF documents. The project is led by the Open Preservation Foundation and the PDF Association and is funded by the EU PREFORMA project. Design/methodology/approach veraPDF is designed to meet the needs of the digital preservation community and the PDF industry alike. The technology is subject to the review of and acceptance by the PDF Association’s PDF Validation Technical Working Group, including many participants of the relevant ISO working groups. Cultural heritage institutions are collecting ever-increasing volumes of digital information, which they have a mandate to preserve for the long term. However, in many cases, they need to ensure their content has been produced to the specifications of a standard file format, as well as any acceptance criteria stated in their institutional policy. Findings With increasing knowledge and experience of processes and policies, cultural heritage institutions are influencing the production and development of digital preservation software. The product development funded by the PREFORMA project shows how such cooperation can benefit the community as a whole. Originality/value This paper describes the value of an open source approach to developing a PDF/A validator for cultural heritage organisations.

Open Source Software Usage in Education and Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 331-345
Author(s):  
Samih M. Jammoul ◽  
Vladimir V. Syuzev ◽  
Ark M. Andreev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Engineering Majors ◽  
Network Traffic Analysis ◽  
Pros And Cons

Information technology and telecommunication is considered a new and quickly evolving branch of science. New technologies and services in IT and telecommunications impose successive changes and updates on related engineering majors, especially in practical qualification that includes using software facilities. This chapter aims to join the efforts to spread the use of open source software in academic education. The chapter consists of two main sections. The first presents the trend of using open source software in higher education and discusses pros and cons of using open source software in engineering education. The second section presents network traffic analysis as an example of recent effective research topics and provides a set of open source tools to perform the research's practical steps. The research example with the suggested tools is valid as practical lab work for telecommunication and IT-related majors.

OpenLaszlo

2011 ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Chris Moya
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Rich Internet Application ◽  
Proprietary Software ◽  
Web Environment ◽  
Device Applications ◽  
Internet Application ◽  
High Level ◽  
Back Office

Programming a rich Internet application (RIA) in any Web environment is the goal of Laszlo Systems. The open source software, OpenLaszlo Presentation Server, allows a user to run, on any device, applications that blend to perfection a user-centered design. It facilitates development from the basic levels such as creating forms, menus and other components for a website, up to high-level tasks like focusing on the attention of the user, to easily create, for example, an e-commerce website, a full management back office or a trip booking site, all this using animations comparable to those created with proprietary software.

Free Access to Law and Open Source Software

2011 ◽  
pp. 373-381
Author(s):  
Daniel Poulin ◽  
Andrew Mowbray
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Scholarly Writing ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
International Projects ◽  
Primary Materials ◽  
Preparatory Work ◽  
Common Vision

Law consists of legislation, judicial decisions, and interpretative material. Public legal information means legal information produced by public bodies that have a duty to produce law and make it public. Such information includes the law itself (so-called primary materials) as well as various secondary (interpretative) public sources such as reports on preparatory work and law reform and resulting from boards of inquiry and available scholarly writing. The free access to law movement is a set of international projects that share a common vision to promote and facilitate open access to public legal information. The objectives of this chapter are to outline the free access to law movement, to set out the philosophies and principles behind this, and to discuss the role that open source software has played both in terms of its use and development.

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 A COMPLETE FOS APPROACH FOR INDOOR CROWDSOURCED MAPPING: CASE STUDY ON SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME FACULTIES

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B4-2020 ◽  
pp. 361-365
Author(s):  
A. Mascitelli ◽  
M. Ravanelli ◽  
S. Mattoccia ◽  
C. Berardocco ◽  
A. Mazzoni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Indoor Navigation ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
University Of Rome ◽  
Available Information

Abstract. Indoor mapping is an essential process in several applications such as the visualization of space and its utilization, security and resource planning, emergency planning and location-based alerts and, last but not least, indoor navigation. In this work, a completely free and open-source (FOS) approach to map indoor environments, and to navigate through them, is presented. Our tests were carried out within Sapienza University of Rome public buildings; in detail, Letters and Philosophy faculty and Engineering faculty indoor environments were mapped. To reach this goal, only open source software such as Quantum GIS (QGIS) and open-source platforms like Open Street Map (OSM) and its indoor viewer, Open Level Up (OLU) were adopted. A database of indoor environments of the two faculties, completely compatible with OLU, was created through QGIS. In this way, a public territorial information system of classrooms, offices and laboratories is accessible to everyone who can, hence, add or modify the information, following the principle of crowdsourcing and of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). The developed procedure is now standard and its outputs accepted by the OSM community. Hence, the long-term developments of this project are the proposal for the volunteered and cooperative indoor mapping and design of strategic buildings and infrastructures (hospitals, schools, public offices, shopping centers, stations, airports etc.), starting from the available information (indoor layouts) and knowledge acquired through experience of people who normally work inside them and/or visit them frequently. In this context it is possible to state that the development of VGI for internal maps for strategic buildings, infrastructures and denied GNSS environments, not only supports and improves internal and external navigation without interruption, but can also have a significant positive impact on security and emergency management.

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