Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of industries. Empirical firm-level evidence of such...

Open Source Digital Library Software packages have much potential for modern Library and Information Centers. It is the software that you can modify, fix, add to, and distribute to others. The Open Source Software (OSS) is becoming an increasingly popular software development method and it...

Digital Library initiatives are gaining momentum and many open source digital library software emerged. These developments necessitate universal standard for digital library software. Conforming the software to universal standard means compromising local requirements. No matter how general the...

Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Studying Digitalization Across Levels: An Overview and Introduction -- Part 2. Outsourcing and Multi-party Projects: Reflections and Experiences -- Chapter 2. The Early History of It Outsourcing – a Personal Reflection -- Chapter 3. How to Ensure Collective...

The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source...