IFLA-IT2015

Introduction

This wiki page details the proposed topics for papers for the IFLA-IT 2015 satellite conference: http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/IFLA_IT/IFLA-IT2015

The theme (of satellite meeting): “Open Source: transforming information access in libraries”

Understanding Open Source technologies

The Linux kernel

• https://www.kernel.org
• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/Linux

The GNU software

• https://www.gnu.org/software

The GNU licenses

• https://www.gnu.org/licenses

The programming tools

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_programming_languages

The web app stacks

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat

The distributions

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution

Using Open Source for library management

Integrated Library Management Systems

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/Koha
• http://www.greenstone.org

Information Index and Discovery

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/VuFind
• http://www.elasticsearch.org

Blogs

• http://blogs.lib.sun.ac.za
• https://wordpress.org

Wiki's

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za
• https://www.mediawiki.org

Mailing Lists

• http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za
• https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman

Using Open Source for research management

Institutional Research Papers Repository

• http://scholar.sun.ac.za

Institutional Research Data Repository

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenData

Academic Journals

• http://journals.sun.ac.za

Conference Proceedings

• http://conferences.sun.ac.za