The GNU is one of the best examples of free software, along with his other icon in the network, LINUX, Tolba. And on the issue before it, find out what the software free, how to interact with the GNU and FSF on the network, which applications and benefits The film can get.
What is Open Source Software?
"free as in free speech not as in free beer" (quotes from the Lord Richard Matthew Stallman, better known by his initials RMS). Free software refers to the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it is the combination of a number of freedoms and features:
- The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
- The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt to your needs.
- access the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
- The freedom to improve the program, and release the improvements to others, so that the whole community benefits.
- Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Distribution System Open Source.
Interestingly the distribution process of Open Source; specifically is done through the provision of a website directory, specifically conducted jointly by GNU and FSF, resulting in the Free Software Directory; location where you can quickly locate via search from thousands of programs that more relevant to our need . The next step is the appearance of a screen of the selected resource description, which you can see the development versions, authors, and access to direct download the source code for later use or modification to adapt to our functions. In short this description to access another resource that acts as a database of all open source (Or at least the majority). Was selected for the task of storage SourceForge is the main platform for hosting and distribution, mirrors or servers comprising representatives from each country in which it is always available on demand from any code page directory GNU / FSF. Selected the mirror, direct access to the download link previously selected program.
What is the Open Source application in library and information science.
Briefly, the open source means in part a cost savings in relation to the software currently used for payment education in general. However, in the university and specifically the LIS, since beneficial effects can broaden the knowledge of the students who handle or use (lets say teach-Parsers Management Feeds, Programming Applied to XML Documents and Archives Databases MySQL, PHP implemented, Information Systems Design using tools Document Process Engineering, etc ...) These advances would lead to a qualitative improvement, although not without costs associated with adapting and modifying the original code requirements that the Library and Documentation required (Which incidentally, ultimately benefit our employees, by experience to be acquired in this regard, further towards the creation of new systems and programs more efficient, opening up a largely untapped area of \u200b\u200bresearch in our country and general worldwide). But back to the applications, you might say, that has all in any area of \u200b\u200bindustry, as general application systems can be adapted to the reality archives, library and information.
Open Source Specific programs directly applicable in the Documentation:
is very interesting to study the available software on the boards of the FSF (Free Software Foundation) in collaboration with the GNU website, can find hundreds of related programs and all activities linked to documentary and archival library. For example integrated management programs of libraries, digital libraries, Content Manager System, Feeders-Parsers "Readers, Systematization of Files ... to fill a huge list. In this article we have selected only a few references from the source: Open Source Project. (UCM) This resource can be consulted for more information.
DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Digital Library Interfaces and management and display systems Digital Libraries and Electronic Files.
DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Digital Library Interfaces and management and display systems Digital Libraries and Electronic Files.
- Keystone ; (Data Index):: http://www.indexdata.dk/keystone/ : Keystone System based on PHP programming and management of XML documents with XSLT conversion capacity uses the ideas of metadata description and content management system (CMS) to adapt and direct the software to manage digital libraries true, being able to distinguish documentary identifiers, such as document type, institution, Collection, Object or scanned item, etc. This description method allows recovery of such information Dublin-Core metadata with excellent results relevant. So much so that currently is being used by the National Library of Australia and the Texas State Library.
MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: Software and open source systems that allow instant publishing and management and editing.
- E-Prints: http://www.eprints.org/ :: Open Source Software EPrints, is designed to perform real-time updates of news, articles and essays. Interoperability capabilities together with the GNU, have allowed their use in the present Wikipedia as a system of management of electronic publications principal. Other sections are noteworthy to the web site e-prints dedicated its space as an area of \u200b\u200bresearch and development of open source, software download area and access to the community and services that make use of Eprints.
- RefB , web-based, platform-independent, multi-user interface for managing scientific literature and citations:: http://refbase.sourceforge.net/ : Database System designed specifically for editing and managing references. Its capabilities allow to establish special information fields, allowing you to set references by thematic groups, storage and export in XML, among other innovations related to the aggregate system supply and feeder.
MANAGEMENT AND DATA-CONNECTION FEEDS: Open Source for the import, management, access and management of news feeds, articles, monographs, published description systems and their derivatives XML RSS, RDF, ATOM, etc.
DOCUMENTARY CODING SYSTEMS: Open Source Software applied to the encoding or decoding in Library and Information Environments.
- : http://www.cgpp.com/bookland/ : :
Both programs allow the encoding and decoding of the ISBN used in libraries, allowing the collection of bar code reading different formats for different devices for reading.
A Draft Code Free.
PIE PROJECT: ( Educational Innovation Project) Applied to the Library. Advance Study in Open Source. This recent development project is one of the pioneers in Spain in the study and application of Open Source in the Library and Information Science. The work of this project has been of great importance and usefulness to conclude that there are plenty of open source software in relation to the documentary sector, which are valid from the standpoint of pedagogical theory and practice in new technologies and practical implementation of knowledge and assumptions to be studied along the career. That is, in other words, allow students to learn not only the technological environments, but to strengthen all the fundamentals and theoretical aspects of documentation, which could implement and test it directly. In short, a win for all stakeholders involved.
Philosophy Recommended Reading on GNU and Open Source.
"Free as in Freedom" is the main book written by Richard Stallman, which uncovers irremediable birth of philosophy and the GNU movement and open source software. It is recommended reading, being a very detailed reproduction typical transcendental and inconsequential issues that sometimes happen between man and machine, using a programming language that allows communication in an unknown environment with not much of which appears a bold solution.
Philosophy Recommended Reading on GNU and Open Source.
"Free as in Freedom" is the main book written by Richard Stallman, which uncovers irremediable birth of philosophy and the GNU movement and open source software. It is recommended reading, being a very detailed reproduction typical transcendental and inconsequential issues that sometimes happen between man and machine, using a programming language that allows communication in an unknown environment with not much of which appears a bold solution.
- Translation of "Free as in Freedom" in the language of Cervantes. :: http://bachue.com/colibri/faifes.html :
