Community-Source Development
and Technical Services Librarians
Beth Picknally Camden
University of Pennsylvania
ALA June 2015
Open Source/Community Source
• Open-source software is computer software with its
source code made available with a license in which the
copyright holder provides the rights to study, change,
and distribute the software to anyone and for any
purpose.
• Community Source builds on the practices of open
source communities. A distinctive characteristic of
community source as opposed to plain open source is
that the community includes some organizations or
institutions that are committing their resources, in the
form of human resources or other financial elements.
Projects
Roles for Technical Services
Librarians
• Scoping
• Analysis
• Specifications
• Testing
• Governance
• Communications
• Training
• Implementation
• A community within a community—Part of the Kuali
Foundation
• Designed for libraries by librarians!
• KOLE is building to meet the following requirements:
• Flexibility in design
• Community ownership with an open source license and strong
vendor support
• Modular Service-Oriented Architecture
• Enterprise-level integration
OLE Partners and Implementations
OLE Roadmap
• 1.6 (May 2015)
• FY rollover; Internationalization; SIP2
• 2.0 (Q3 2015)
• ERM; GOKb integration
• 3.0 (Q1 2016)
• Circulation upgrades; authorities; etc.
https://www.kuali.org/ole/roadmap
OLE Governance & Roles
My OLE Story
• Penn partnership
• design phase (2008-09)
• build phase (2010- )
• Functional Council
• voting member; vice chair
• Communications team
• Chair
• Planning Penn’s implementation