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Items tagged with oa.floss in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) 2023-05-07

Summary:

"Open source is much more than a repository—it is a rich multilevel ecosystem of human contributors who collaboratively cooperate, in many capacities, to accomplish a shared creative endeavor. Consequently, when studying open source ecosystems, numerous interacting parts must be considered to understand the dynamics of the whole. Research on open source ecosystems is ultimately research about a sociotechnical ecosystem. Researchers should take care to retain the socio- element in research and understand how both their methods and results may impact entire open source ecosystems. This article describes best practices for open source ecosystems research through multiple overarching best practices. It offers practical guidelines for conducting rigorous, ethical, respectful research that maintains the integrity of the open source ecosystem under consideration...."

Link:

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595879

From feeds:

[IOI] Open Infrastructure Tracking Project » Items tagged with oa.floss in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.ecology oa.biology oa.best_practices repositories open_source_software

Date tagged:

05/07/2023, 14:04

Date published:

05/07/2023, 10:04