What is Open Source? Who is using Open Source? Open Source Community and Governance Why should libraries care? Library Software Overview Open Source and Library Software today Open Source and Arabic Libraries today Why should Arabic libraries care even more? Arabic Library Software Success Stories Creating Opportunities: Open Source Software should play a role in driving our National ICT Strategy?

1. Open Source Software
and Libraries:
Enabling Arabic Libraries
& Creating Opportunities
Massoud M. AlShareef
massoudalshareef@wordpress.com
KnowledgeWARE Technologies
SLA 2011

2. Why Open Source Software
and Libraries ?

3. What is an Integrated Library System (ILS) ?
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4. 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.)

5. 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

6. History of mergers and acquisitions in the library automation industry
(Created by Marshall Breeding)

7. 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

8. 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.

9. How Libraries understand
Open Source Software ?

10. What is Open Source ?
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11. What is Open Source ?
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd

12. What is Open Source ?
process promise
quality reliability
flexibility lower cost
vendor lock-in
Jim Whitehurst , President and CEO of Red Hat.
http://connect.educause.edu/display/47941

13. 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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14. What is Open Source Software ?
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-
bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
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15. Open Source Governance
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16. Open Source Community
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17. 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

18. Who’s Using Open Source?

19. Open Source in Business

20. Open Source on the Web

21. Why should libraries care?

22. Open Source & Libraries
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24. Open Source & Libraries
http://www.lugod.org/presentations/oss4lib.pdf
http://www.linux.com/feature/59491place

25. 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

26. 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

27. Open Source Concerns
90K Saudi
Software
Developers
(Riyadh)

28. 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

29. Isn’t Open Source Risky ?
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30. Give me a Library OSS example

31. 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

32. Koha Project Cost
http://www.ohloh.net/p/koha

33. Maps of libraries: 2000+ Registered Koha ILS Sites
http://www.librarytechnology.org/map.pl?ILS=Koha

34. Koha Community

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

36. Koha OPAC – Online Public Access Catalog
New titles/recent acquisitions
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37. 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.

38. 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.

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

40. Most Popular Titles/ Topics/ Author/ Type

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

42. 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.

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

44. Integration with Librarything

45. 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.

46. 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.

47. 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).

48. ‫‪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

49. Koha and the Arabic Language Support

50. Koha and the Arabic Language Support

51. ICU - International Components for Unicode

52. Arabic Koha Community

53. Give me more examples of
FOSS tools for libraries…

54. FOSS Tools for Libraries

55. FOSS Tools for Libraries

56. FOSS Tools for Libraries

57. FOSS Tools for Libraries

58. FOSS Tools for Libraries

59. FOSS Tools for Libraries

60. FOSS Tools for Libraries

61. FOSS Tools for Libraries

62. FOSS Tools for Libraries

63. Thank you
Massoud M. AlShareef
massoudalshareef@wordpress.com
KnowledgeWARE Technologies
Int’l FOSST Workshop 2010
April 25, 2010, KACST, RIYADH, KSA

64. 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/