The document discusses open source software (OSS) for open scholarly infrastructure. It notes that OSS allows libraries and scholars to directly impact and shape their future evolution in ways that are free from purely profit-driven interests. For open scholarship to be fully supported, libraries must invest in critical open components to ensure their growth and allow knowledge to be easily accessed, openly shared, accurately reproduced, and appropriately reused. The document poses questions and thanks the audience.

1. Practical
Considerations for
Open Infrastructure
Bohyun Kim
CTO & Associate Professor
University Libraries, University of Rhode Island
NISO Virtual Conference: Community Owned Infrastructure: Partnerships & Collaboration,
Online. March 24, 2021.

2. Open vs. Proprietary

3. Why “Open” Now?

5. OSS: Intent & Goal
What underlies the open source movement is a
particular set of beliefs about software development,
where a community takes a center stage.

6. When Commercial
Products Fall Short

7. OSS for Open
Scholarly
Infrastructure
OSS afford libraries (and the scholarly community) the
opportunity to directly impact and shape their future
evolution in ways that closely reflect their own concerns
and agenda on open scholarship and open knowledge
and in ways that are free from purely profit-driven
commercial interests.

8. Benefits and
Drawbacks

9. Standards and
Interoperability

10. Loss of OSS

11. Open technologies for
open knowledge
In order to fully support and sustain the practice of open
scholarship, libraries themselves must invest in the critical
components of the open scholarly environment and ensure
them to grow and prosper. For it is only in such an
environment that libraries will be able to see knowledge be
easily accessed, openly shared, accurately reproduced, and
appropriately reused, just as they desire.

13. Questions?
Thank you!
Bohyun Kim, CTO & Associate Professor
University Libraries, University of Rhode Island
Twitter: @bohyunkim
http://bohyunkim.net