Usability comparison of open source content management systems

The purpose of this thesis is to study, investigate and compare usability of open source cms. The thesis examines and compares usability aspect of some open source cms. The research is divided into two complementary parts –theoretical part and analytical part. The theoretical part mainly describes open source web content management systems, usability and the evaluation methods. The analytical part is to compare and analyze the results found from the empirical research. Heuristic evaluation method was used to measure usability problems in the interfaces. The study is fairly limited in scope; six tasks were designed and implemented in each interface for discovering defects in the interfaces. Usability problems were rated according to their level of severity. Time it took by each task, level of problem’s severity and type of heuristics violated will be recorded, analyzed and compared. The results of this study indicate that the comparing systems provide usable interfaces, and WordPress is recognized as the most usable system.

Free/Open Source Software in CUSAT: A Success Story

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) concept is very important in the academic community. The open philosophy of FOSS is consistent with academic freedom and the open dissemination of knowledge and information in academia. FOSS can lower the barriers to access of ICTs by reducing the cost of the software. This article discusses the success story of CUSAT's adoption of Free/Open Source Software

Archiving News In A University Using Open Source Software

Newspapers cover a large amount of information everyday on topics of varied interests. To a university, newspapers are essential components of communication as they cover various happenings in a university. These items of information are neither stored properly nor put in retrieval systems for future use. The news and views appeared in newspapers can effectively be organized in a digital library making use of open source software. The CUSAT digital library (http://dspace.cusat.ac.in/dspace/) has organized some news items that appeared in local newspapers about the university under a special community named “CUSAT-News”. This article describes the methods of collecting, selecting, organizing, providing access and preserving news items required by a university using DSpace open source software.

Adoption of Koha Open Source Software in Libraries: a Web Based Study

Since last few years open source integrated library systems gaining attention of library and information science professionals. This paper tries to identify the extent of adoption of Koha, an open source ILS in libraries around the world through a Web based study. The study found that Koha adoption in libraries is still at infancy

Reliability Estimation of Open Source Software based Computational Systems

Software systems are progressively being deployed in many facets of human life. The implication of the failure of such systems, has an assorted impact on its customers. The fundamental aspect that supports a software system, is focus on quality. Reliability describes the ability of the system to function under specified environment for a specified period of time and is used to objectively measure the quality. Evaluation of reliability of a computing system involves computation of hardware and software reliability. Most of the earlier works were given focus on software reliability with no consideration for hardware parts or vice versa. However, a complete estimation of reliability of a computing system requires these two elements to be considered together, and thus demands a combined approach. The present work focuses on this and presents a model for evaluating the reliability of a computing system. The method involves identifying the failure data for hardware components, software components and building a model based on it, to predict the reliability. To develop such a model, focus is given to the systems based on Open Source Software, since there is an increasing trend towards its use and only a few studies were reported on the modeling and measurement of the reliability of such products. The present work includes a thorough study on the role of Free and Open Source Software, evaluation of reliability growth models, and is trying to present an integrated model for the prediction of reliability of a computational system. The developed model has been compared with existing models and its usefulness of is being discussed.

Measuring the Maturity of Open Source Software for Digital Libraries: a Case Study of DSpace

The assessment of maturity of software is an important area in the general software sector. The field of OSS also applies various models to measure software maturity. However, measuring maturity of OSS being used for several applications in libraries is an area left with no research so far. This study has attempted to fill the research gap. Measuring maturity of software contributes knowledge on its sustainability over the long term. Maturity of software is one of the factors that positively influence adoption. The investigator measured the maturity of DSpace software using Woods and Guliani‟s Open Source Maturity Model-2005. The present study is significant as it addresses the aspects of maturity of OSS for libraries and fills the research gap on the area. In this sense the study opens new avenues to the field of library and information science by providing an additional tool for librarians in the selection and adoption of OSS. Measuring maturity brings in-depth knowledge on an OSS which will contribute towards the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use as explained in the Technology Acceptance Model theory.

Un Modelo para evaluar el futuro de Proyectos Open Source

Presentación de CENATI, Centro Nacional de Referencia de Aplicación de las TIC basadas en fuentes abiertas

Introducción a los conceptos y a la utilización del SIG Open-Source GRASS

In this presentation, we would like to focus on GRASS GIS (version 5.x and latest 6.x), one of the oldest GIS developped by the Open-Source Community. Our goal is trying to make it accessible to any GIS user by explaining its main concepts

Un Servidor de mapas open source para la gestión sanitaria: atlas electrónico de salud de Catalunya

La salud catalana está basada en una extensa red de cientos de centros especializados en el territorio y en unas zonificaciones sanitarias para ordenar su gestión. El proyecto ha creado un servidor de mapas basado en Minnessota Map Server para visualizar la dimensión geográfica sanitaria, sus actuaciones y recursos: el Atlas Electrónico de Salud

Transition between metadata models: approach based on the use open source software

This article shows the work developed for adapting metadata conform to the official Colombian metadata standard NTC 4611 to the international standard ISO 19115. CatMDedit, an open source metadata editor, is used in this task. CatMDedit is able of import variants of CSDGM such as NTC 4611 and export to the stable version of ISO 19139 (the XML implementation model of ISO 19115)

CatalogConnector Open Source. Un cliente CSW para conectar catálogos de metadatos

Este artículo refleja los problemas de interoperabilidad que existen entre las diferentes implementaciones de catálogos de metadatos que contemplan la especificación CSW [1] (Catalog Service for the Web) de OGC (Open GeoSpatial Consortium ) . Esta situación ha llevado al desarrollo de una aplicación cliente para poder lanzar peticiones simultáneas a diferentes catálogos de metadatos, con la intención de poder visualizar los resultados de forma unitaria. En el artículo se detalla tanto la arquitectura como todo proceso de desarrollo de la aplicación

Sistema multimodal para la planificación de viajes en transportes públicos de código abierto y basado en estándares 'de facto' = A multimodal journey planner based on open source software and 'de facto' standards

Este artículo muestra cómo con bajo coste y riesgo se puede desarrollar un sistema de planificación de viaje multimodal, basado en un enfoque de código abierto y estándares ‘de facto’. Se ha desarrollado completamente una solución de código abierto para un sistema de información de transporte público puerta a puerta basado en estándares ‘de facto’. El cálculo de rutas se realiza mediante Graphserver, mientras que la cartografía se basa en OpenStreetMap. También se ha demostrado cómo exportar una base de datos real de horarios de transporte público como la del operador ETM (Empresa de Transporte Metropolitano de València) a la especificación de Google Transit, para permitir el cálculo de rutas, tanto desde nuestro prototipo como desde Google Transit

Team Quintinlessness: Open source software resource set

INFO2009 Assignment 2 reference list for team "Quintinlessness" - Subject: Open source software

INFO2009 Cwk - Open Source - by 'Legal Issues'

A collection of our resource, poster and reference list