Did someone say "Free Beer"?

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

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Free beer
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

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

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

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?

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.”

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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!

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