writing open source software
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Writing Open Source Software. David Kane WIT Libraries. What is ‘Open Source’?. Universal and free access to the design or blueprint of a product, including all subsequent improvements. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Writing Open Source Software
David KaneWIT Libraries
What is ‘Open Source’?
• Universal and free access to the design or blueprint of a product, including all subsequent improvements.
• A form of ‘Open Collaboration’ where a group of loosely affiliated individuals work towards a common goal.
What is ‘Open Source Software’?
• Universal and free access to the Source Code of a program, including all subsequent improvements.
• A form of ‘Open Collaboration’ where a group of loosely affiliated individuals work towards a common goal.
My Story
• Open Source Projects can be big and they can be small. They all solve a problem though.
• I had a problem that needed to be solved.
The Problem
The Problem
Deposit
Add Subjects
Add Metadata
Upload file(s)
Choose Type
Log In
What I Wanted
Deposit
Do it all on a single page
Reaching Out
– SWORD• Simple Web Service Offering Repository Deposit
– EasyDeposit (Last Release June ‘11)• An implementation of SWORD• Did not work in my case• Many files and folders• Not as simple as I wanted
Reaching Out
– Eprints Tech Mailing List (Feb 2013).• Discussions on SWORD relating to ingest of various data
and file formats.• Suggestions made by some to re-write some of the
code in EPrints itself.– Got speaking to Tommy Ingulfsen of Caltech• Similar Problem to our own.• After a campus-wide upgrade and migration process,
their old SWORD interface no longer worked.
Sherman M. Fairchild Library
4,986 miles
Tommy Ingulfsen
• Applications Developer in Caltech Library• From Tromsø in the Far North of Norway 69° North.• Via University in England• To California
Sierra Madre Mountain Rescue:Volunteer of the year 2012: Tommy Ingulfsen
Our Solution
HTML Form
• Fill in text fields• User/Pass• Title, Author,
Abstract, etc.• Upload File(s)
Eprints Helper
• Takes the data and files, and builds into a single XML package.
EPrints
• Authentication of User
• Ingest XML• Converts XML
to brand new EPrint
https://github.com/davidfkane/eprintsDepositHelper/
