Towards an ontology for open source software development

Software development is a knowledge intensive process and the information generated in open source software development projects is typically housed in a central Internet repository. Open source repositories typically contains vast amounts of information, much of it unstructured, meaning that even i...

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Main Authors: Simmons, Gregory, Dillon, Tharam S.
Other Authors: Ernesto Damiani
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Springer-Verlag 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45678
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description Software development is a knowledge intensive process and the information generated in open source software development projects is typically housed in a central Internet repository. Open source repositories typically contains vast amounts of information, much of it unstructured, meaning that even if a question has previously been discussed and dealt with it is not a trivial task to locate it. This can lead to rework and confusion amongst developers and possibly deter new developers from getting involved in the project in the first place. This paper will present the case for an open source software development ontology. Such an ontology would enable better categorization of information and the development of sophisticated knowledge portals in order to better organize community knowledge and increase efficiency in the open source development process.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-456782023-02-27T07:34:29Z Towards an ontology for open source software development Simmons, Gregory Dillon, Tharam S. Ernesto Damiani Brian Fitzgerald Walt Scacchi Marco Scotto Giancarlo Succi Open source repositories Software development ontology semantic networks Software development is a knowledge intensive process and the information generated in open source software development projects is typically housed in a central Internet repository. Open source repositories typically contains vast amounts of information, much of it unstructured, meaning that even if a question has previously been discussed and dealt with it is not a trivial task to locate it. This can lead to rework and confusion amongst developers and possibly deter new developers from getting involved in the project in the first place. This paper will present the case for an open source software development ontology. Such an ontology would enable better categorization of information and the development of sophisticated knowledge portals in order to better organize community knowledge and increase efficiency in the open source development process. 2006 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45678 10.1007/0-387-34226-5_7 Springer-Verlag restricted
spellingShingle Open source repositories
Software development
ontology
semantic networks
Simmons, Gregory
Dillon, Tharam S.
Towards an ontology for open source software development
title Towards an ontology for open source software development
title_full Towards an ontology for open source software development
title_fullStr Towards an ontology for open source software development
title_full_unstemmed Towards an ontology for open source software development
title_short Towards an ontology for open source software development
title_sort towards an ontology for open source software development
topic Open source repositories
Software development
ontology
semantic networks
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45678