The license must permit modifications

Integrity of the author's source code

No discrimination against persons or groups

No discrimination against fields of endeavor

same license must be passed on to others when the program is redistributed.

License must not be specific to a product

License must not restrict other software

License must be technology-neutral

list of the nine most widely used licenses is

Apache Software License 2.0 (www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) New BSD License (www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php) GNU General Public License (GPL) (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) MIT License (www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) (www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html) Common Development and Distribution License (www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html) Common Public License 1.0 (www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cpl.html)  Eclipse Public License (www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html) [5].

common misconception, alluded to above, is that since the source code is freely distributed without royalty or licensing fee, open source applications are free of cost.

Free and open source software application users, on the other hand, must rely on development communities for support.

The pervasiveness of the World Wide Web guarantees that nearly every information organization is using free or open source software to perform some function.

xCatalog

LibraryFind

Blackligh

iVia,

What makes OSS different from proprietary software is that it is free in every sense of the word: free as in “no cost,” free as in “unencumbered” and free as in “not locked up.”

questioned whether OSS is overall less expensive than its proprietary counterparts and has called for libraries to look hard at cost factors

OSS projects are thriving communities with leaders, followers, contributors, audiences and reputation systems.

Like so many things librarians hold dear – information, books and library buildings themselves – OSS is open, available and visible for all to see

OSS presents important opportunities for libraries

This is the world we want to be in again. It will not always be easy, and there will be a few spectacular failures. But there will also be spectacular successes – and this time, they will happen in the open.

Supplied (on-site device distribution) or privately owned

Native apps

Mobile websites

In terms of content this includes:

Applications (software designed for specific tasks

Podcasts (audio and video content

Other downloadable content (e.g. PDFs and ebook

the Library may look to harness the potential of these technologies to break away from the traditional broadcast-only website presence and move towards two-way conversations between the Library and its users, or conversations between the users themselves

the key objectives stated in the Information Technology Strategic Plan 2012-2015 include Online Presence and supporting “the needs of our users for easy discovery of, access to, and engagement with our services, collections and other information resources in the digital environment”

ensure equal access to our resources and services for all Australians.

facilitate equal access to Library resources for everyone.

Putting Library resources into the hands of users in their lounge rooms reflects a deeper understanding of the need to move beyond the desire to follow our users and instead reach out to them to “take them some place new

mobile will only continue to grow and overtake desktop internet usage within 2-3 years

building both infrastructure and a culture of engagement will pave the way to more efficiently and effectively meeting that need in the future

4         Strategic goals

Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.

Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.

Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery

Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.

Create opportunities for learning

Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.

Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.

Build, consolidate and share expertise

Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.

A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.

Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.

6         Recommended activities

activities provide a means to implement and ground the strategy with specific and measurable tasks

6.1      Governance and infrastructure

The Library’s IT Strategy Group will determine priorities

formalising the Web Committee’s role as an advisory body

Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR

Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing of development work, administrative models, and potential for partial cost-recovery

Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content

Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes. Identify

Investigate infrastructure and resourcing requirements for digital recording and distribution

Collections Management Division to keep a watching brief on any developments pertaining to the extension of Legal Deposit to include digital (and mobile) content

developing a statement of collecting intentions for the various categories of ebook titles within the context of revising the collecting policy for Australian electronic publications in general

Applications

Podcasts (audio and video content

Other downloadable content (e.g. PDFs and ebooks

3         Our mobile vision

Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.

4         Strategic goals

3         Our mobile vision

4         Strategic goals

3         Our mobile vision

Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.

4         Strategic goals

Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery

Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.

Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.

Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery

Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.

Create opportunities for learning

Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.

Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.

Tactics

Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.

Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery

Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.

Create opportunities for learning

Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.

Tactics

Tactics

Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.

Build, consolidate and share expertise

Tactics

Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.

Build, consolidate and share expertise

Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.

Build, consolidate and share expertise

Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.

A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.

Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.

A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.

Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.

Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.

Recommended

6.1      Governance and infrastructure

Library’s IT Strategy Group will determine priorities

formalising the Web Committee

Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing

formalising the Web Committee

Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR

Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR

formalising the Web Committee

Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes

Investigate infrastructure and resourcing requirements for digital recording and distribution to ensure the long-term sustainability of online broadcast activity

Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content

formalising the Web Committee

Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing

Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR

Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content

Collections Management Division to keep a watching brief on any developments pertaining to the extension of Legal Deposit to include digital (and mobile) conten

developing a statement of collecting intentions for the various categories of ebook titles within the context of revising the collecting policy for Australian electronic publications

Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content

Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes

As individuals and members of organizations, we’re already choosing between desktop applications and cloud applications when it comes to e-mail, RSS, file storage, word processing and other simple applications. Sooner or later we’ll have to make this choice for mission-critical enterprise applications too

Libraries may soon be building and managing their own data centers.

For more practical, technical explanations of cloud computing, check out the Wikipedia article the Anatomy of Cloud Computing the MIT Technology Review Briefing on Cloud Computing.

For a discussion of problems and concerns about the digital cloud, read: How Secure is Cloud Computing? Security in the Ether Industry Challenges: The Standards Question

A cloud can be private or public:

As with any business related activity there are both risks and opportunities associated with using cloud computing services.

potentially a number of business and information risks associated with using cloud computing services.

noted that even if the cloud computing environment is managed wholly within NSW an appropriate risk assessment of the service and the provider should occur.

level of risk that an organisation attributes to a proposed cloud computing arrangement will vary according to the content or subject matter of their records

The content of the contract in these types of service arrangements is very important.

What are others saying? Australia Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI), Advice on managing the recordkeeping risks associated with cloud computing, July 2010, available at http://www.adri.gov.au Defence Signals Directorate (Commonwealth), Cloud computing security considerations, April 2011, available at http://www.dsd.gov.au/infosec/cloudsecurity.htm Department of Finance and Deregulation (Commonwealth), Cloud computing strategic direction paper: opportunities and applicability for use by the Australian Government, April 2011, available at http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/strategy-and-governance/docs/final_cloud_computing_strategy_version_1.pdf

International Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland, Cloud computing toolkit: guidance for outsourcing information storage to the cloud, August 2010, available at http://www.archives.org.uk/images/documents/Cloud_Computing_Toolkit-2.pdf – this guidance contains a comprehensive overview of the range of cloud computing services available and the recordkeeping considerations that apply to each CIO Council and Chief Acquisition Officers Council (USA), Creating effective cloud computing contracts for the Federal Government: best practices for acquiring IT as a service, February 2012, available at http://www.cio.gov/cloudbestpractices.pdf – this is a comprehensive and useful document for those seeking to procure cloud computing services