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1. F/LOSS in Norwegian libraries
Magnus Enger, Libriotech

2. About me...
Librarian 1999
Master of Documentation 2005
Librarian at Bodø University College ~2000-9
Libriotech 2009-

3. F/LOSS
Free/Libre
Open Source
Software

4. The plan
Creating F/LOSS
Using F/LOSS
Upstream
Open data
Conclusions(s)?!?

5. Creating F/LOSS

6. Reaktor

7. A website/social network for
«user generated content»
Flickr meets Youtube meets Facebook...
Oslo public library
ABM-utvikling
Redpill Linpro

8. http://www.minreaktor.no/

9. Prototype: 2003-2005
Version 2: 2008-2009
http://digital.deichman.no/reaktor/
Blog: http://minreaktor.wordpress.com/
Source code: http://github.com/digibib/reaktorcms
LAMP-based (P = PHP)

10. Sublima

11. A tool for building subject portals
«Cataloguing web resources»
RDF is used as the internal format
Oslo public library
ABM-utvikling
Computas

12. http://detektor.emneportal.no/sublima/home

13. 5.500 resources
2.400 subjects
Maintained by staff at Oslo public library

14. http://smil.uio.no/smil/home

15. http://digital.deichman.no/sublima/
Source code:
https://submarine.computas.com/sublima/
Java, Apache Tomcat

16. Pode

17. A project, not a single «product»
The aim was to explore
- how the library can get access to it's own data
- what can be done with that data
Oslo public library
ABM-utvikling
Trond Aalberg, NTNU (FRBR)
IT-students
Libriotech

18. Mashups
- travel
- music
VuFind
FRBR
Linked data/Semantic Web

19. http://www.bibpode.no/reise/

20. http://www.bibpode.no/musikk/

21. http://www.bibpode.no/linkedauthors/

22. http://www.bibpode.no/linkednonfiction/

23. Prototypes, not finished products
http://bibpode.no/
Source code: https://github.com/pode
(7 different repositories)

24. Glitre

25. «Middleware» for making Z39.50 and SRU easier
to use in websites etc
A lot of research into the details of Norwegian
Z39.50/SRU servers
Buskerud county library
ABM-utvikling
Libriotech

26. http://glitre.wordpress.com/
Source code: https://github.com/glitre
PHP, Zebra

27. normarc2rdf

28. Transform records in NORMARC to RDF
The transformations is based on a configuration
file, can be used for any MARC format
Benjamin Rokseth
Oslo public library

29. Source code:
https://github.com/bensinober/normarc2rdf
Ruby

30. moBibl

31. A library interface for mobile devices
(smartphones)
News
Pages
Search
Libriotech

32. http://demo.mobibl.no/

33. http://libriotech.no/mobibl
Source code:
https://github.com/MagnusEnger/mobibl-wp-theme
https://github.com/MagnusEnger/mobibl-wp-plugin
WordPress, jQuery Mobile, Glitre

34. Using F/LOSS

35. What I'm not going to talk about...
Firefox, OpenOffice / Libre Office, and other free
desktop software
Apache and other «infrastructure» software that
runs on servers

36. Zotero
Firefox plugin for reference managemet
http://www.zotero.org/

37. http://www.hioa.no/LSB/node_2460/Referanseteknikk/Zotero

38. Aigaion
«A Web based bibliography management
software»
http://www.aigaion.nl/

39. http://bibliografi.hive.no/larebok/index.php/topics/single/37

40. CMSes
Content Management Systems

41. Drupal - http://drupal.org/
http://sunnbib.no/

42. Joomla! - http://www.joomla.org/
http://dbib.no/

43. WordPress - http://wordpress.org/
http://sksk.wordpress.com/

44. Plone - http://plone.org/
http://bergenbibliotek.no/

45. CMS Made Simple - http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/
http://www.lillehammer.folkebibl.no/cmsms/

46. DSpace
Institutional repositories
BIBSYS sells DSpace services as «Brage»
http://www.dspace.org/

47. http://teora.hit.no/dspace/

48. OJS
Open Journals System
Facilitates publishing electronic journals, including
the peer review process
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs

49. http://journals.hioa.no/

50. iWebKit
A framework for mobile web-apps
http://snippetspace.com/projects/iwebkit/

51. http://home.uia.no/bibkris/

52. MapTiler
«Map Overlay Generator for Google Maps and
Google Earth»
http://www.maptiler.org/

53. http://bergenbibliotek.no/digitale-samlinger/kart/

56. MediaWiki
The software that Wikipedia runs on
Semantic MediaWiki
More capabilities, can export data as RDF
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/

57. A wiki of Norwegian library history
Not yet launched – living at a temporary URL

58. Linux for patrons at Oslo public library
«Semi-thick» clients
Ubuntu on the server - http://www.ubuntu.com/
Lubuntu on the clients - http://lubuntu.net/
Libki for administration - http://libki.org/
http://digital.deichman.no/blog/2011/06/22/publikumspcer-del-3/
http://it.deichman.no/projects/halvtykke-klienter
http://it.deichman.no/projects/libki

59. Koha
The first free software ILS
(Integrated Library System)
http://koha-community.org/

60. Who's using it?
● The Naval Academy, Bergen
● Norsk Senter for Folkemusikk og Folkedans

61. Koha at The Naval Academy
http://sksk.bibkat.no/

62. Who will be using it soon?
● Nesodden school of Waldorf education
● Buskerud county library
● Lørenskog «friskole»
● 5-10 school libraries in Time municipality

63. Challenges for Koha in Norway
● NORMARC
● More or less solved
● NILL – the national ILL protocol
● National library cards
● Translations

64. Open data

65. Several projects at NTNU
«Traditional» library data as Linked Data
Rurik Thomas Greenall

66. http://ckan.net/dataset?q=norwegian+rdf

67. Upstream

68. Please take note, here comes the main point...

69. When making changes to F/LOSS code,
submit your changes «upstream»

70. It's how free software moves forward
Give something back to the community
You don't have to maintain your changes as a
separate «fork»
It pays off in the long run even if you have to put
in an extra effort to get it into the upstream code
It's fun!

71. Koha bug #2593
- way to duplicate items
● Suggested by Nicole Engard, US
● Paid for by The Naval Academy, Norway
● Implemented by BibLibre, France
● Integrated into Koha version 3.2
● http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2593

72. Contributions don't have to be financial
Report bugs
Verify bugs
Answer qustions
Write documentation
Test bugfixes/improvements
Time is the most scarce resource of all!

73. If you are paying someone to «do» F/LOSS for
you, make sure «upstream» is part of the deal
New developments should be made availabe to
the upstream project
In a «lasting relationship», giving back should be
part of the package

74. Libriotech tries to give back on behalf of itself and
on behalf of it's customers
Minor bugfixes and improvements
Testing new code
Organizing bug squashing days
Answering questions

75. Be a part of the community!
You learn things
You make new friends
It's fun!
But yes, it does take some time...

76. Conclusion(s)?!?

78. Is «the old way»
(proprietary software)
doing what we need it to do for us?
Or have we been serfs long enough?
...paying our masters (vendors) to protect us from
having to think about our systems and our data?

79. Freedom to tinker
Libraries need to be able to experiment
...or pay someone to experiment on their behalf
F/LOSS is the best platform for tinkering and
experimenting!

80. Move fast
Break things
...and fix them
Development needs to happen in real time,
not on a 2-3 year scale
The distributed, peer-to-peer nature of F/LOSS is
perfect for this

81. Libraries need hackers, in-house
Development needs to be a part of
business-as-usual, not just a bunch of projects
Perpetual beta, baby!
...not as an excuse for bad software and services,
but as a reminder that we are never «done»

82. New roles for libraries?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000718231

83. Documenting the (hyper) local
- history
- happenings
Sharing with CC licences makes it available
globally

84. Bridging the digital divide
Put free software in the hands of patrons
Empower them to do things on their own
Let them take the software tools they found in the
library home with them

85. And finally...
Every library conference should have a hackfest!

86. Thanks for your patience!
Magnus Enger
magnus@enger.priv.no
Libriotech.no