Did someone say “Free Beer”?! Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield [email_address]

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Contents Free beer, free kittens and free speech Freeconomics Open Source and Me Open Source in Libraries Web Services and APIs Usage Data -> Open Data

Free beer, free kittens and free speech

Freeconomics

Open Source and Me

Open Source in Libraries

Web Services and APIs

Usage Data -> Open Data

free beer

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Free beer Open Source software is usually free to download

Open Source software is usually free to download

free kittens Warning: the following slides contain images of a highly cute nature

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Free kittens It might be free to download, but there’s no such thing as a “free lunch” ;-) p.s. thanks to PTFS for the free lunch You’ll need hardware to run the Open Source software on You’ll need to spend time maintaining it, supporting it, upgrading it, developing it, etc You’ll need to bribe the IT Dept with cakes

It might be free to download, but there’s no such thing as a “free lunch” ;-)

p.s. thanks to PTFS for the free lunch

You’ll need hardware to run the Open Source software on

You’ll need to spend time maintaining it, supporting it, upgrading it, developing it, etc

You’ll need to bribe the IT Dept with cakes

free speech

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Free speech “Free software is a matter of liberty, not price… freedom to run the software for any purpose freedom to study how the software works, and adapt it to your needs freedom to redistribute copies freedom to improve the software, and to release your improvements, so that the whole community benefits” www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

“Free software is a matter of liberty, not price…

freedom to run the software for any purpose

freedom to study how the software works, and adapt it to your needs

freedom to redistribute copies

freedom to improve the software, and to release your improvements, so that the whole community benefits”

freeconomics

A Tale of 2 (Capa)cities IBM Deskstar June 2000 £125 20GB £6.25 per GB £6,250 per TB Hitachi Deskstar July 2008 £95 1000GB (1TB) 10p per GB £95 per TB

IBM Deskstar

June 2000

£125

20GB

£6.25 per GB

£6,250 per TB

Hitachi Deskstar

July 2008

£95

1000GB (1TB)

10p per GB

£95 per TB

A Tale of 3 (Capa)cities IBM Deskstar June 2000 £125 20GB £6.25 per GB £6,250 per TB Seagate Barracuda June 2009 £97.50 1500GB (1.5TB) 6 ½p per GB £65 per TB Hitachi Deskstar July 2008 £95 1000GB (1TB) 10p per GB £95 per TB What will the price per GB/TB be next year? How about in 5 years?

IBM Deskstar

June 2000

£125

20GB

£6.25 per GB

£6,250 per TB

Seagate Barracuda

June 2009

£97.50

1500GB (1.5TB)

6 ½p per GB

£65 per TB

Hitachi Deskstar

July 2008

£95

1000GB (1TB)

10p per GB

£95 per TB

Can you spot the trend? ;-)

Free: The Future of a Radical Price “ In the future, [Anderson] argues, when we talk of the ‘money economy’ we will talk of the ‘ reputation economy’ and the ‘ time economy’ in the same breath.”

“ In the future, [Anderson] argues, when we talk of the ‘money economy’ we will talk of the ‘ reputation economy’ and the ‘ time economy’ in the same breath.”

Open Source and Me

Software that I use regularly… Perl (GNU General Public License) Firefox (GNU General Public License) MySQL (GNU General Public License) Apache (Apache Licence) mod_perl Lucene Solr

Perl (GNU General Public License)

Firefox (GNU General Public License)

MySQL (GNU General Public License)

Apache (Apache Licence)

mod_perl

Lucene

Solr

http://www.cpan.org/

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Business-ISBN

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/MARC-Record

Open Source in Libraries

Next Gen Catalogues VuFind Scriblio (formerly WPopac) Project Blacklight eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project fac-back-opac The Social OPAC 2.0

VuFind

Scriblio (formerly WPopac)

Project Blacklight

eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project

fac-back-opac

The Social OPAC 2.0

VuFind http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/

Scriblio

More “free” software ERMes Electronic Resource Management (ERM) Software University of Wisconsin-La Crosse “ free”, but requires Microsoft Access Meeting Room Booking System GNU GPL MarcEdit not Open Source, but free to download/use

ERMes Electronic Resource Management (ERM) Software

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

“ free”, but requires Microsoft Access

Meeting Room Booking System

GNU GPL

MarcEdit

not Open Source, but free to download/use

Web Services and APIs

What can you get for free? LibraryThing thingISBN , a million book covers , thingTitle Talis Talis Platform OCLC xISBN and xISSN (limit on the # of requests) Amazon Amazon Associates Web Service

LibraryThing

thingISBN , a million book covers , thingTitle

Talis

Talis Platform

OCLC

xISBN and xISSN (limit on the # of requests)

Amazon

Amazon Associates Web Service

Usage Data

Keyword cloud

Keyword suggestions (2)

Borrowing suggestions

Personalised suggestions

E-journal data (alpha)

Keyword cloud Average number of clicks per month

Borrowing profile Average book loans per month (2002-2008)

Borrowing suggestions Average number of clicks per month

Borrowing range profile Number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year recommendation features added to OPAC at start of 2006

Books per active borrower Average number of books borrowed per active borrower per calendar year

Open Data … or “if you love something, set it free”

Linked data “ There are data in every aspect of our lives, every aspect of work and pleasure, and it's not just about the number of places where data comes, it's about connecting it together. And when you connect data together, you get power in a way that doesn't happen just with the web, with documents. You get this really huge power out of it. So, we're at the stage now where we have to do this.” - Sir Tim Berners-Lee (TED Conference, 2009) http://tinyurl.com/bxua4r

“ There are data in every aspect of our lives, every aspect of work and pleasure, and it's not just about the number of places where data comes, it's about connecting it together. And when you connect data together, you get power in a way that doesn't happen just with the web, with documents. You get this really huge power out of it. So, we're at the stage now where we have to do this.” - Sir Tim Berners-Lee (TED Conference, 2009) http://tinyurl.com/bxua4r

Copyleft “ Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.” Creative Commons GNU General Public License http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

“ Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.”

Creative Commons

GNU General Public License

No strings attached CC0 “…a legal tool for waiving as many rights as legally possible, worldwide” Open Data Commons “…a philosophy and practice requiring that certain data are freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control” http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0 http://www.opendatacommons.org

CC0

“…a legal tool for waiving as many rights as legally possible, worldwide”

Open Data Commons

“…a philosophy and practice requiring that certain data are freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control”

Huddersfield’s data release Prompted by the JISC Tile Project http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/ aggregated data for 2 million circulation transactions, covering around 80,000 titles recommendation data for over 37,000 titles simple XML format Open Data Commons / CC0 licence

Prompted by the JISC Tile Project

http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/

aggregated data for 2 million circulation transactions, covering around 80,000 titles

recommendation data for over 37,000 titles

simple XML format

Open Data Commons / CC0 licence

Usage data release Released on 12 th Dec converted to RDF by Patrick Murray-John at University of Mary Washington 2 days later! Talis podcast at http://bit.ly/z6yjF

Released on 12 th Dec

converted to RDF by Patrick Murray-John at University of Mary Washington 2 days later!

Talis podcast at http://bit.ly/z6yjF

What next? What other usage data is out there? reading lists OpenURL resolvers What are the barriers to releasing/sharing data… technical, logistical, moral, political, institutional, privacy …?

What other usage data is out there?

reading lists

OpenURL resolvers

What are the barriers to releasing/sharing data…

technical, logistical, moral, political, institutional, privacy …?

What next? What are the benefits… better business intelligence for librarians creation of innovative new services enrichment of existing services end-user empowerment & personalisation …? JISC Mosaic Project - watch this space!

What are the benefits…

better business intelligence for librarians

creation of innovative new services

enrichment of existing services

end-user empowerment & personalisation …?

JISC Mosaic Project

- watch this space!

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