{"id":1705,"date":"2010-02-11T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2010-02-11T04:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:00:04","slug":"my-vala-travel-scholar-paper-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/my-vala-travel-scholar-paper-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"My VALA Travel Scholar paper: slides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I gave my Big Paper, the one I&#8217;ve known I&#8217;ve had to do since November 2008, the one that enabled me to go on the seven weeks&#8217; overseas Trip of a Lifetime. I think I have lived with it for so long that I had gone beyond being nervous &#8211; which I made me feel a bit uncomfortable, because I think that nervous feeling makes me strive harder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The title: <em>Taking matters into our own hands: influencing factors and concerning factors for libraries that developed their own Open Source Software<\/em> .<\/p>\n<p>I was planning to Ustream it, but I think the wifi in the conf venue will be flakey. If it is not, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/kathrynarium\">http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/kathrynarium<\/a> around 10:30am Australian Eastern Standard Time. <\/p>\n<p>For the paper, I interviewed managers who supported, and developers who coded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scriblio<\/li>\n<li>SOPAC2<\/li>\n<li>Evergreen<\/li>\n<li>Koha<\/li>\n<li>VuFind<\/li>\n<li>Blacklight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These were bold, adventurous folk who went out on a limb and created something for the rest of us. They were the type of people that it was exciting to just be in the same room with.<\/p>\n<p>I also interviewed six librarians who were involved in specifying the Open Library Project.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to find out three things:<br \/>\n1. Why they developed their Open Source Software?<br \/>\n2. What were the risks?<br \/>\n3. How can what they learned be used by libraries thinking of adopting Open Source Software?<\/p>\n<p>To keep it standardised, I took out of the formal literature a bunch of reasons given for libraries to develop\/adopt OSS and another bunch of risks. I then asked my participants whether these reasons claimed to be influential actually were &#8211; and whether there were other factors.<\/p>\n<p>I will put up a link to my paper when it becomes available. After VALA has finished I will write a post explaining the 10 things that are valuable for libraries thinking of adopting software. I will be submitting a more detailed version &#8211; with more quotes from the interviewees &#8211; as my Masters&#8217; Thesis in June this year.<\/p>\n<p>For now, here are my slides from today:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px;text-align:left\" id=\"__ss_3058588\"><a style=\"font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/sirexkat\/taking-matters-into-our-own-hands-influencing-factors-and-concerning-factors-for-libraries-that-developed-their-own-open-source-software\" title=\"Taking matters into our own hands: influencing factors and concerning factors for libraries that developed their own Open Source Software\">Taking matters into our own hands: influencing factors and concerning factors for libraries that developed their own Open Source Software<\/a><object style=\"margin:0px\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=greenhill140valapptxslideshare-100202234152-phpapp01&#038;stripped_title=taking-matters-into-our-own-hands-influencing-factors-and-concerning-factors-for-libraries-that-developed-their-own-open-source-software\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;\">View more <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/sirexkat\">sirexkat<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I gave my Big Paper, the one I&#8217;ve known I&#8217;ve had to do since November 2008, the one that enabled me to go on the seven weeks&#8217; overseas Trip of a Lifetime. 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