Name
Abstract | ||
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F/OSS research faces a new and unusual situation: the traditional difficulties of gathering enough empirical data have been replaced by issues of dealing with enor- mous amounts of freely available data from many disparate sources (forums, code, bug reports, etc.) At present no means exist for assembling these data under common ac- cess points and frameworks for comparative, longitudinal, and collaborative research. Gathering and maintaining large F/OSS data collections reliably and making them us- able present several research challenges. For example, cur- rent projects usually rely on "web scraping" or on direct access to raw data from groups that generate it, and both of these methods require unique effort for each new corpus, or even for updating existing corpora. In this paper we identify several common needs and critical factors in F/OSS empir- ical research, and suggest orientations and recommenda- tions for the design of a shared research infrastructure. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1049/ic:20040468 | MSR |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 5 | 0.69 |
References | Authors | |
4 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Les Gasser | 1 | 1601 | 261.00 |
| Gabriel Ripoche | 2 | 67 | 8.08 |
| Robert J. Sandusky | 3 | 186 | 15.41 |