Open Source Software Development Challenges

GitHub is the most common code hosting and repository service for open-source software (OSS) projects. Thanks to the great variety of features, researchers benefit from GitHub to solve a wide range of OSS development challenges. In this context, the authors thought that was important to conduct a literature review on studies that used GitHub data. To reach these studies, they conducted this literature review based on a GitHub dataset source study instead of a keyword-based search in digital libraries. Since GHTorrent is the most widely known GitHub dataset according to the literature, they considered the studies that cite this dataset for the systematic literature review. In this study, they reviewed the selected 172 studies according to some criteria that used the dataset as a data source. They classified them within the scope of OSS development challenges thanks to the information they extract from the metadata of studies. They put forward some issues about the dataset and they offered the focused and attention-grabbing fields and open challenges that we encourage the researchers to study on them.

Franz Liszt's Cantico del Sol: A Source Study

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the compositional process of the revised version of Liszt's Cantico del Sol di San Francesco d’Assisi, especially focusing on the little-known manuscripts preserved in Weimar, Budapest and Leipzig. The author confirmed for the first time that the “Leipzig copy” of the work also includes Liszt's handwriting. Surely both manuscripts in Weimar and Leipzig are Stichvorlagen for the first edition. The latter is the revised vocal score with accompaniment either on piano or organ. Definitely Liszt also checked the engraver's manuscript of the vocal score for himself. On September 6, 1881 to Carolyne, Liszt wrote the following: “I am going to write the arrangement for piano and organ of the new definitive version of the Cantico di San Francesco.” It is very likely that this arrangement means the “Leipzig copy,” not the piano solo version. Therefore, the date of composition of the latter should be reconsidered. On the other hand, the autograph fragment for orchestra in Budapest is an important correction to the missing manuscript between the early version and the revised one.

The Music of Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760): a Source Study and Stylistic Survey, with Emphasis on His Sacred Output

<p>Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760) was an admired composer and an organist of renown. This thesis examines this musician's life and work, and attempts to bring Bousset's music, hitherto largely unknown, to the attention of musicologists and performers today. Primarily a source study, the thesis makes a survey of all known copies of Bousset's published works, addressing questions of dates, reprints and corrections. Historical context and musical style are also discussed. Particular emphasis is given to Bousset's sacred music in the French language two volumes of sacred cantatas and eight settings of Odes sacrees by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau - and its place within the French tradition of Psalm paraphrase settings. The figure of J.B. Rousseau is also examined, as the librettist of Bousset's Odes, and as an important literary contributor to French music at the turn of the eighteenth century. The source study is supplemented by a catalogue in the style of the PhilidorOeuvres database produced by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, containing all Bousset's known works, extant and lost. This exposition of Bousset's compositional output is prefaced by a biographical overview assembled principally from eighteenth century publications and archival documents. Volume II of this thesis comprises a critical performing edition of Bousset's first volume of Cantates spirituelles (1739).</p>

ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ИСТОРИИ РУССКОГО ПРАВОСЛАВИЯ В СЕКТОРЕ АРХЕОГРАФИИ И ИСТОЧНИКОВЕДЕНИЯ ИНСТИТУТА ИСТОРИИ СИБИРСКОГО ОТДЕЛЕНИЯ РАН: ВТОРАЯ ПОЛОВИНА ХХ – НАЧАЛО XXI в.

Представлен обзор научных работ по истории русского православия, подготовленных сотрудниками сектора археографии и источниковедения Института истории Сибирского отделения РАН со времени его организации в 1975 г. и до настоящего момента. Отмечены все значительные научные труды этого академического подразделения по истории Русской православной церкви и старообрядчества, охватывающие период от Средневековья до Новейшего времени. Особое внимание уделено вопросам становления сектора и научной школы академика Н. Н. Покровского, главным исследовательским направлением в работе которых стало изучение проблем истории и культуры русского православия. An overview of scientific works on the history of Russian Orthodoxy prepared by the staff of the sector of archeography and source study of the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the time of its organization in 1975 to the present is presented. All significant scientific works of this academic unit on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Old Believers, covering the period from the Middle Ages to modern times, are noted. Particular attention is paid to the issues of the formation of the sector and the scientific school of Academician N.N. Pokrovsky, whose main scientific direction in research work was the study of the problems of the history and culture of Russian Orthodoxy.

Spring ritual calendar of the ukrainians of the Republic of Moldova: source study and historiographic analysis

The carried out source analysis revealed that during the XIX, XX, and the early XXI centuries there was a gradual accumulation of the source base about the spring calendar of Moldovan Ukrainians. Articles, monographs, folklore collections, archival records, local periodicals, Internet portals, sites, as well as the author’s self-collected field materials are an important source for studying the problem of spring calendar holidays of the Ukrainian population of the Republic and allow them to be considered from a historical retrospective, to trace the connection with the mother Ukrainian culture, interethnic influences and transformations, to conduct a comparative analysis of old and new holidays and rituals, to consider the stages of transformation of their cultural content. The corpus of published and handwritten materials is a valuable source for further ethnological, ethno-linguistic, folklore and cultural studies. It makes possible to trace the originality and territorial and local differences of the Ukrainian ethno-culture on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, to identify the commonality of basic, allUkrainian, as well as distinctive, characteristic exclusively of the Ukrainians in Moldova, elements and features of the spring rituals.

PROBLEMS OF ETHNOGENESIS AND ETHNIC HISTORY OF THE UZBEK PEOPLE IN THE DISSERTATION STUDIES OF THE MODERN HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY

The article examines the relevance of the problem of ethnogenesis and ethnic history of the Uzbek people, its importance in historical science. Ethnographic, anthropological, historiographic, source study, archaeological dissertation research on the topic for the years of independence is analyzed. Scientific views, opinions and approaches to the problem in scientific research are described from a historiographic point of view. During the years of independence, local researchers have carried out a small number of dissertations on this issue. These studies are important for studying the ethnogenesis and ethnic history of the Uzbek people.Index Terms:ethnos, ethnogenesis, ethnic history, turkic tribes, ethnography, archeology, anthropology, historiography, source study

Thing in museum space: change of status and other transformations

The article deals with the “thing”, i.e. the “museum item” and its diverse nature. This phenomenon is analyzed based on modern thought, which recognizes the subjectivity and agency for things. Previously, these categories were used exclusively as applied to human beings. The items, which reflect the universe of traditional cultures of diverse peoples, when preserved in ethnographic museums have to be traditionally included in the general worldview system along with language, myths, rituals and social institutions. Apart from their utilitarian purpose, things also serve as cultural symbols and possess certain semiotic language. This language was convenient for expressing such ideas and concepts, which are difficult or impossible to express by other cultural codes. An item, which enters a museum collection is effectively removed from its usual cultural context. As a result, it changes its status and undergoes a significant transformation in its “biography”. In the first instance, it becomes a source of diverse information concerning the culture within which it was initially created and used. Due to the great information potential, museum items can serve as a valuable source study resource for various studies in the field of humanities.

Католические миссионеры на южных российских окраинах в первой половине XVIII в. (по документам Архива внешней политики Российской империи)

Introduction. The article concentrates on the religious policy of the Russian Empire in the Early Modern Time. For the first time in historiography, a study was carried out concerning the place of Catholic missionaries who settled on the southern outskirts of Russia, in the religious policy of Russian secular and spiritual authorities. Materials and methods. The base of the study was the correspondence of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs with the Holy Synod, as well as other institutions and officials, characterizing the scale of the presence and direction of activity of Catholic orders on the territory of Russia. The methodology of the study has been determined by the structural and functional approach to the system of state bodies of Russia. In combination with this approach, a historical-genetic method was used, which is optimal for understanding the evolution of the structure of power in the Russian Empire from the time of Peter the Greatto the middle of the reign of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. The results of the research are presented in the section “Catholic missionaries in the south of Russia by the middle of the 18th century: political and diplomatic aspects”. In it, the Capuchin Order is designated as the most active force of Catholic missionary work in the Russian south, which managed to prevail over others Catholic orders in dispute for influencing on the ethno-confessional groups of the studied region. It has been determined that the Capuchins in Russia gained constant diplomatic support from the Austrian monarchy. The activity of missionaries in Astrakhan and Nizhyn was traced, the place of the Armenian communities in the missionary plans of the Capuchins on the territory of Russia is shown. The influence on the position of the Capuchins of Russian-Austrian relations is emphasized, in particular of the “Austrian system” — the orientation of Russian diplomacy towards the Austrian court. The idea is carried out that the attitude of the Russian authorities in the capital and in the localities towards the Capuchins in such conditions was indifferent or patronizing, while in fact the Russian secular authorities did not take into account the violation of the prerogatives of the ruling Orthodox (Greek-Russian) church. In order of discussion (part “Missionaries in the Russian Borderlands: source study andhistoriographical observations” of the abovementioned section of the article), the main interpretations of Catholic missionaryism, found in the literature on Catholicism in Russia, have been identified. Conclusion. The author states that the reasons for the interest of Catholic missionaries to the southern Russian outskirts and their population were objective. The reaction of the Russian secular authorities to such an interest was little, and their awareness of the legal necessity of appropriate regulatory measures developed slowly.