(25 Mar 2025) Open Source Software (OSS) “plays a critical role in the global technology ecosystem. It fosters collaboration, transparency, and innovation, providing a foundation for modern computing and research.” This paper presents the results of a birds-of-a-feather workshop held at the 2025 eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa conference in February. Find out more here.
(16 August 2017) The Digital Public Library of America is launching an open-source tool for fast, large-scale data harvests from OAI repositories. The tool uses a Spark distributed processing engine to speed up and scale up the harvesting operation, and to perform complex analysis of the harvested data. It is helping DPLA to improve internal workflows…
(9 September 2016, Boston) The Open Library Foundation has been established to promote open source projects for libraries and to foster and support contribution, distribution, and sustainability of the benefits of these projects. The foundation provides the infrastructure for librarians, developers, designers, service providers, and vendors to collaborate with innovative open source technologies and develop…
(3 May 2013) This 122-page report (ISBN 978-1-57440-239-1) from Primary Research Grouplooks closely at how public, academic, and special libraries are using open source solutions for email, integrated library systems, word processing and spreadsheets, the library website, server management, and content management and digital preservation software, among other applications. The study looks at which libraries…