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PennTags Goes Open Source

Session Details

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Harborside Ballroom E

Session Type: Track 3

Speaker(s)

Michael Winkler, Director, Information Technology and Digital Development, University of Pennsylvania
Session convener: Lee Watkins, Jr., Director of Bioinformatics, The Johns Hopkins University

Abstract

Social software like PennTags challenges the traditional model of open source software development. Such software relies on maximizing the community of users rather than the number of software installations and poses questions about the adoption of transportable metadata, privacy issues in sharing content across institutional boundaries, and open source hosted services. Intermediate Level

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