Towards a Data and Workflow Collaboratory for Research on Free and Open Source Software and its Development
Howison, James; Crowston, Kevin; Conklin, Megan
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Title
Towards a Data and Workflow Collaboratory for Research on Free and Open Source Software and its Development
Author(s)
Howison, James
Crowston, Kevin
Conklin, Megan
Issue Date
2008-02-28
Keyword(s)
cyberinfrastructure
repositories
Abstract
FLOSSmole is a collaborative data repository which collects and provides data for research
on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and its development by online, distributed
teams. The data is used by a research community that studies diverse questions from the
evolution of software to how these groups make decisions, use various media and man-
age change over time (Scacchi, 2007). This multi-disciplinary research community includes
researchers both inside and outside iSchools, from many disciplines including software en-
gineering, organizational studies, information systems and sociology, as well as corporate
researchers.
Since May 2007, we1 have been working to development this repository into an e-Social Sci-
ence infrastructure capable of supporting, storing and publishing not only data but analyses
organized into scienti c work
ows, as envisioned in the NSF reports on Cyberinfrastruc-
ture (Atkins, 2003; NSF Cyberinfrastructure Council, 2007). Further we are developing a
pre-print repository which will enable bidirectional links between the data, work
ows and
published papers. The goal of the project is to facilitate collaboration to improve the re-
producibility and consistency of research, collaboratively building a body of cumulative
knowledge (Borgman, 2007; Finholt and Olson, 1997).
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