[p2p-research] Fwd: April Issue of OSBR Available

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>
Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Subject: April Issue of OSBR Available
To: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>


Readers:

The April issue of the OSBR is now available in PDF and HTML formats from
http://www.osbr.ca. The theme this month is "Open APIs" and the authors
include:

TIM Program students provide a glossary of terms associated with Open APIs
and present some resources that discuss their business value.

Michael Weiss from Carleton University describes a research framework to
examine the structure of the mashup ecosystem and its growth over time using
network analysis to obtain key characteristics of the ecosystem and identify
significant ecosystem members and their relationships.

G.R. Gangadharan, a research scientist at the Novay in the Netherlands,
provides an overview of open API licensing, provide examples from current
open APIs, and briefly discusses open licensing of open APIs.

Owen Byrne, Senior Manager of Travelpod Labs, compares the features of the
most commonly used JavaScript Toolkits used to create rich Internet
applications and how freely available toolkits are able to compete against
proprietary alternatives.

Steven Muegge and Roberto Milev of Carleton University describe a method
for examining the evolving modularity of large-scale software systems and
introduce a new modularity metric for comparing code bases of different
size.

Byron Thom, a student at at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law,
summarizes a recent Torys Technology Law Speaker Series presentation which
introduced a novel interpretation of copyright in the age of OSS using a
spatial framework to deal with open source licenses.

The editorial theme for the upcoming May issue is is "Open Source in
Government" and the guest editor will be James Bowen from the University of
Ottawa. Contact the editor if you're interested in a submission for this
issue.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Dru Lavigne
Editor, Open Source Business Resource
http://www.osbr.ca
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Open Source Business Resource
http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr



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