[Open Source 2.0] Sharing preprint « Open Source 2.0: From Open Source Software to Open Source Resources? »

[Simon]

Hello world 👋

Just sharing a citizen research I'm doing around the meaning of « open source » with a recently released preprint titled « Open Source 2.0: From Open Source Software to Open Source Resources? ». It argues for a conceptual revolution regarding the very meaning of open source — it's about open source beyond software.

One key problem today with open (educational) resources is that the right to modify is provided with licenses, but the ability to do so is limited in many cases because of the lack of source files (basic example: ODT/DOCX/Markdown/LaTex files of a PDF).

UNESCO recommendations on OER: « developing mechanisms to support and incentivize all stakeholders to publish source files and accessible OER using standard open file formats in public repositories. »

By extension to OER around this issue of source files availability was suggested (not by me) the notion of « Open Source Educational Resources »: OER + source files. Thinking more deeply about OSER may be a key element to foster collaboration in open education. I invite you to provide more attention to these components in your practice, sometimes hard/impossible to do because of how infrastructures are currently made.

This question of source file management being not limited to open education — such as in open science for research article — leading more broadly to this idea of « open source resources ».

Open Source Resource: a digital resource made publicly available alongside its source files.

Preprint open for (open) peer review: https://prereview.org/preprints/doi-10.5281-zenodo.20237079

Towards open source 2.0?

Feedback appreciated, hope it can give some food for thought!
Simon