Give us your DOAP
Ross Gardler
the list, so I'll start the ball rolling with the "low hanging fruit" -
DOAP.
The reasons why we chose DOAP are ourlined in
http://code.google.com/p/simal/wiki/WhyDOAP
The main highlight is "By choosing DOAP, Simal has access (at the time
of writing) to somewhere between 16,000 and 20,000 project descriptions.
With work we will have access to at least 200,000 projects."
As I write the demo server (http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk:8080) has a shade
under 500 projects and 271 people (we only have people details for about
40 projects at present).
With these kinds of numbers it should be fairly easy to convince people
to adopt DOAP as their project data format. However, we need to give
them a head start if we can.
Here at Simal we intend to grab data from FlossMetrics in the next
release, that will give us access to circa. 200,000 projects.
In a more focussed environment the JISC is considering exposing their
data as DOAP, CETIS already export a very limited amount of data as DOAP
(albeit with bugs - but we can work together on that) and OMII-UK are
exploring it. These projects, and a handful of others showing interest
cover many of the projects in the UK HE and FE space.
Other activities, such as the e-Framework and the Innovation Base are
looking at ways of capturing data not described by DOAP. It is hoped
that we will, eventually, work with their data too.
So, lets get to it. Give us your DOAP.
I undertake ensure that Simal will pull all data from all UK HE and FE
related sources.
I'm putting a document together on how to share your data with us at
[2], please have a look over it and ask questions of it here. I'll get
the answers back to you if I know them, if not we'll figure it out together.
Ross
[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/simal-users/browse_thread/thread/c24a81b74c31c2d0
[2] http://code.google.com/p/simal/wiki/ExposingYourDOAP
Simone Spencer
On Sep 15, 11:25 pm, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote:
> A small number of the folk at the initial meeting [1] are now present on
> the list, so I'll start the ball rolling with the "low hanging fruit" -
> DOAP.
>
> [2]http://code.google.com/p/simal/wiki/ExposingYourDOAP
Ross Gardler
> ok, question no1... what are Ohloh and Flossmetrics?
Good questions.
Ohloh is a registry of open source projects that analysis SVN activity
and rates projects/participants based on that analysis
(http://www.ohloh.net/)
Flossmetrics is a project in the EU project that mines data from many of
the public registries and provides it for statistical analysis by
researchers in Open Source. http://flossmetrics.org
I forgot to mention Flossmole in the mail below. Flossmole is a US
project that mines data from various public repositories and makes it
available to researchers in open source development.
(http://ossmole.sourceforge.net/) I expect to roll out Flossmole data
importing in the next week or so.
Ross
Ross Gardler
> Simone Spencer wrote:
>> ok, question no1... what are Ohloh and Flossmetrics?
>
> Good questions.
>
> Ohloh is a registry of open source projects that analysis SVN activity
> and rates projects/participants based on that analysis
> (http://www.ohloh.net/)
>
> Flossmetrics is a project in the EU project that mines data from many of
> the public registries and provides it for statistical analysis by
> researchers in Open Source. http://flossmetrics.org
>
> I forgot to mention Flossmole in the mail below. Flossmole is a US
> project that mines data from various public repositories and makes it
> available to researchers in open source development.
> (http://ossmole.sourceforge.net/) I expect to roll out Flossmole data
> importing in the next week or so.
I should point out that OSS Watch recently played host to an intern from
the Libresoft team (behind Flossmetrics) and two participants in
Flossmole attended our community metrics expert workshop in July 2008.
We are building a good working relationship with these projects and
would be happy to ensure that any data shared by partners is made
available (where appropriate) across the whole family.
One project we have not yet built bridges with is
http://www.doapspace.org/ This is on my todo list.
Ross