Oss and libraries enabling arabic libraries and creating opportunities

Open Source Software
and Libraries:
Enabling Arabic Libraries
& Creating Opportunities
Massoud M. AlShareef
massoudalshareef@wordpress.com
KnowledgeWARE Technologies

SLA 2011

Why Open Source Software
and Libraries ?

What is an Integrated Library System (ILS) ?
List

Library Technologies
• Integrated Library System
• Federated Search (MetaSearch)
• OpenURL – COinS
• ILL & Document Delivery
• Ask-a-Librarian – Reference Librarian
• Consortia and Union Catalogs
• Context Management
• Digital Archiving
• BI – Business Intelligence
• ERM – Electronic Resource Management
• (Blogs, RSS, Tags, Wiki, Mashups, etc.)

Library & Archiving Protocols and Formats

Formats ‫أوعية المعلومات‬ Protocols ‫البروتوكوالت‬
• MARC21 21‫مارك‬ • Z39.50 / SRU / SRW
• Duplin Core • Bath Profile
• MARCXML • OpenURL
• MODS / MADS • COinS
• EAC/ EAD • X12 (EDI)
• RDA • SIP2 (RFID, PDA)
• FRBR • OAI-PMH
• OpenSearch

History of mergers and acquisitions in the library automation industry

(Created by Marshall Breeding)

OSS and Libraries have in common..
• Free Redistribution
• Source Code
• Derived Works
• Integrity of The Author's Source
• No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
• No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
• Distribution of License
• License Must Not Be Specific to a
Product
• License Must Not Restrict Other Software
• License Must Be Technology‐Neutral

Microsoft exec: The world runs on Software

"There is no question that the world runs on software," said
Bob Muglia, president of the server and tools business at
Microsoft, in unveiling Visual Studio 2010 at an event in Las
Vegas, on APRIL 12, 2010. "Just look around you. Look at
everything, look at all the devices we use, the systems we
interact with."

Everything is powered by software and "developers are the
ones who make it all happen," Muglia said.

"As I said, software powers the world, so that means that
developers are the engine behind what powers the world,"
he said.

How Libraries understand
Open Source Software ?

What is Open Source ?

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http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd


process promise
quality reliability
flexibility lower cost
vendor lock-in
Jim Whitehurst , President and CEO of Red Hat.

http://connect.educause.edu/display/47941

What is Free Software ?

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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fre
e-sw.html

http://www.opensource.org/docs/d
efinition.php

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What is Open Source Software ?

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http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-
bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
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Open Source Governance

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Open Source Community

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Open Source CrowdSourcing

Howe, J. (2008). Crowdsourcing: Why the power of the
crowd is driving the future of business. New York:
Crown Business. p.8

Open Source & Libraries

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Open Source & Libraries

http://www.lugod.org/presentations/oss4lib.pdf

http://www.linux.com/feature/59491place

OSS & Libraries - preserving the intellectual ‘commons’

We should reclaim the domain of library
technology from the commercial and
proprietary realms

Can you
think of any other group of institutions that
share their stuff the way we do through ILL?
-- Lucia, J. http://pln.palinet.org/wiki/index.php/Open_source_plans

OSS and Libraries have in common..

• Free Redistribution
• Source Code
• Derived Works
• Integrity of The Author's Source
• No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
• No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
• Distribution of License
• License Must Not Be Specific to a
Product
• License Must Not Restrict Other Software
• License Must Be Technology‐Neutral

Open Source Concerns

90K Saudi
Software
Developers
(Riyadh)

Isn’t Open Source Risky ?
284 days

nine days

Quote Monday, January 25, 2010:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/internet_e
xplorer_unsafe_for_2.html

Isn’t Open Source Risky ?

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Koha – Integrated Library Management System

April 18th, 2010 by Chris Cormack

Koha is an active project. Koha Project stats to date
• 12640 commits
• 4773 files
• 558966 lines of code
• 2636 Bugs fixed
• 110 Different people committing
• 100’s of translators, translating thousands and thousands
of lines

Koha Project Cost

http://www.ohloh.net/p/koha

Maps of libraries: 2000+ Registered Koha ILS Sites

http://www.librarytechnology.org/map.pl?ILS=Koha

Let’s us take a closer look at
Koha.. and Arabic Koha!

Koha OPAC – Online Public Access Catalog

New titles/recent acquisitions
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Tag Cloud

Users can tag items from the search results or item details
page. Aggregated user tags are then presented as a cloud for
other patrons to use.

Item details screen

Patrons can rate items on a 5-star scale. Ratings are then
aggregated across all users and made visible to other patrons.

Patron comments

Patrons can log in and write comments/reviews for
items. Reviews are moderated by librarians.

Most Popular Titles/ Topics/ Author/ Type

Shelf browser

Reaching out for Users who cannot come to Libraries:
hello Saudi female Library lovers !!

Shared booklists/recommended reading

Patrons can create booklists out of collections of items, which they can
then share with all users. Teachers can use this feature to compile
recommended reading lists for courses.

RSS Feeds

Search results and lists of tagged items automatically generate RSS feeds
which can then be used to generate up-to-date lists.

Interoperability – Beyond Books

A feature in Koha that does a parallel search of Kete (OSS - community
digital Library) along side search results from its catalog.

Recommendations

‘I really like this book;
have you got anything
similar?’

When looking for people with similar taste, click
recommendations to see similar items, based on tagging,
patron history, subject keywords and rating.

Interoperability – Beyond Books

How long Should
we wait on closed
Commercial Software
vendors in order to
keep up with new
technologies?

Kete administrator configured sources (search aggregation sources like
Koha RSS , Twitter, or anything that uses OpenSearch standard).

‫‪Arabic Language Requirements – Searching/ Sorting‬‬

‫السوابق واللواحق ‪Pre-fixes/ Post-fixes‬‬
‫"أ ، إ ، ا" ,"ه ، ة" ,"و، ؤ" ,"ي ى“ : ‪• Normalize‬‬
‫على علي – مدينة مدينه – احمد أحمد‬
‫مدينة المدينة بالمدينة فالمدينة للمدينة والمدينة ‪• Multiple Pre-fixes‬‬
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‫مدينة – كوها كـوهـا ‪• Ignore: Kashida “-” , Vowles‬‬ ‫مـديـنــــــــــــــــة‬
‫الـ ‪• Ignore: Alif Laam‬‬ ‫مدينة المدينة‬
‫)‪• Original Ali Lamm (Exception‬‬ ‫الكسندر‬ ‫هللا‬
‫المشتقات ‪Stemming‬‬
‫معلم معلمة معلمات معلمان معلمين معلمون‬
‫علم عالم علوم عليم علماء اعالم‬

Koha and the Arabic Language Support

ICU - International Components for Unicode

Give me more examples of
FOSS tools for libraries…

Thank you
Massoud M. AlShareef
massoudalshareef@wordpress.com
KnowledgeWARE Technologies

Int’l FOSST Workshop 2010
April 25, 2010, KACST, RIYADH, KSA

Media and Slides Credits

http://www.slideshare.net/nengard/libraries-open-source-freedom-and-community

• http://www.slideshare.net/sirexkat/open-source-software-and-
libraries?src=related_normal&rel=2753554

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cindy47452/3682949582/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr/3993439584/
http://tinyurl.com/3jvumn
• Nstolma, Library Openeing 2,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavort/151687944/
• Gwen's River City Images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntie/102849109/

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