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Mapping the open-source ecosystem
Unlike private data, which is not traceable, open-source software is traceable and the dependencies between different libraries and modules of open-source software can best be described as a network Similarly to academic papers in a field of research, projects in an open-source ecosystem use the wor...
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| description | Unlike private data, which is not traceable, open-source software is traceable and the dependencies between different libraries and modules of open-source software can best be described as a network Similarly to academic papers in a field of research, projects in an open-source ecosystem use the work of others and are subsequently used by others as research advances. This dissertation uses tools from citation networks and applies them to dependencies in open-source networks taken from the dataset provided by Libraries.io in order to understand the structure and prevailing patterns inherent to open source ecosystems. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/40861 Mapping the open-source ecosystem Davies, Ryan Davids, Allan open-source ecosystem Unlike private data, which is not traceable, open-source software is traceable and the dependencies between different libraries and modules of open-source software can best be described as a network Similarly to academic papers in a field of research, projects in an open-source ecosystem use the work of others and are subsequently used by others as research advances. This dissertation uses tools from citation networks and applies them to dependencies in open-source networks taken from the dataset provided by Libraries.io in order to understand the structure and prevailing patterns inherent to open source ecosystems. 2025-01-31T10:18:00Z 2025-01-31T10:18:00Z 2024 2025-01-31T10:13:01Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40861 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
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| title | Mapping the open-source ecosystem |
| title_full | Mapping the open-source ecosystem |
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