publications:
- title: "Heartbeat: Measuring Active User Base and Potential User Interest in FLOSS Projects"
  author:
  - name: "Andrea Wiggins"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/andrea-wiggins"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  year: "2009"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_10"
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_10"
  tags:
  - "rule-based"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/WigginsHC09"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "94-104"
  booktitle: "Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting, 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2009, Skövde, Sweden, June 3-6, 2009. Proceedings"
  editor:
  - name: "Cornelia Boldyreff"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/cornelia-boldyreff"
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "Björn Lundell"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/bj%C3%B6rn-lundell"
  - name: "Anthony I. Wasserman"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/anthony-i.-wasserman"
  volume: "299"
  series: "IFIP"
  publisher: "Springer"
  isbn: "978-3-642-02031-5"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "WigginsHC09"
- title: "Information systems success in free and open source software development: theory and measures"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Hala Annabi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/hala-annabi"
  year: "2006"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.259"
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.259"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "peer-to-peer"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonHA06"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  journal: "Software Process: Improvement and Practice"
  volume: "11"
  number: "2"
  pages: "123-148"
  kind: "article"
  key: "CrowstonHA06"
- title: "Why can’t I manage academic papers like MP3s? The evolution and intent of metadata standards"
  author:
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Abby Goodrum"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/abby-goodrum"
  year: "2004"
  doi: "http://freelancepropaganda.com/archives/MP3vPDF.pdf"
  abstract: "This paper considers the deceptively simple question: Why can’t downloaded academic papers be managed in the simple and effective manner in which digital music files are managed? We make the case that the answer is different treatments of metadata. Two key differences are identified: Firstly, digital music metadata is standardized and moves with the content file, while academic metadata is not and does not. Secondly digital music metadata lookup services are collaborative and automate the movement from a digital file to the appropriate metadata, while academic metadata services do not. To understand why these differences exist we examine the divergent evolution of metadata standards for digital music and academic papers. It is observed that the processes differ in interesting ways according to their intent. Specifically music metadata was developed primarily for personal file management, while the focus of academic metadata has been on information retrieval. We argue that lessons from MP3 metadata can assist individual academics facing their growing personal document management challenges. Our focus therefore is not on metadata for the academic publishing industry or institutional resource sharing, it is limited to the personal libraries growing on our hard-drives. This bottom-up approach to document management combined with p2p distribution radically altered the music landscape. Might such an approach have a similar impact on academic publishing? This paper outlines plans for improving the personal management of academic papers—doing academic metadata and file management the MP3 way—and considers the likelihood of success."
  links:
    doi: "http://freelancepropaganda.com/archives/MP3vPDF.pdf"
  tags:
  - "p2p"
  - "academic digital library"
  - "information retrieval"
  - "digital library"
  - "digital libraries"
  - "systematic-approach"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HowisonG%3A2004"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the 2004 Colleges, Code and Intellectual Property Conference"
  number: "57"
  series: "ACRL Publications in Librarianship"
  address: "College Park, MD"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "HowisonG:2004"
- title: "Collaboration using OSSmole: a repository of FLOSS data and analyses"
  author:
  - name: "Megan Conklin"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/megan-conklin"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  year: "2005"
  doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1083142.1083164"
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1083142.1083164"
  tags:
  - "data-flow"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/ConklinHC05%3A0"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the 2005 International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2005, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, May 17, 2005"
  publisher: "ACM"
  isbn: "1-59593-123-6"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "ConklinHC05:0"
- title: "Guest Editors  Introduction: Wireless Grids--Distributed Resource Sharing by Mobile, Nomadic, and Fixed Devices"
  author:
  - name: "Lee W. McKnight"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/lee-w.-mcknight"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Scott Bradner"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/scott-bradner"
  year: "2004"
  doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2004.14"
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2004.14"
  tags:
  - "mobile"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/McKnightHB04"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  journal: "IEEE Internet Computing"
  volume: "8"
  number: "4"
  pages: "24-31"
  kind: "article"
  key: "McKnightHB04"
- title: "Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "Qing Li"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/qing-li"
  - name: "Kangning Wei"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kangning-wei"
  - name: "U. Yeliz Eseryel"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/u.-yeliz-eseryel"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  year: "2007"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.004"
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.004"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "peer-to-peer"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonLWEH07"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  journal: "Information \\& Software Technology"
  volume: "49"
  number: "6"
  pages: "564-575"
  kind: "article"
  key: "CrowstonLWEH07"
- title: "Collaboration using OSSmole: a repository of FLOSS data and analyses"
  author:
  - name: "Megan Conklin"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/megan-conklin"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  year: "2005"
  doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1082983.1083164"
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1082983.1083164"
  tags:
  - "data-flow"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/ConklinHC05"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  journal: "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes"
  volume: "30"
  number: "4"
  pages: "1-5"
  kind: "article"
  key: "ConklinHC05"
- title: "Assessing the Health of Open Source Communities"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  year: "2006"
  doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2006.152"
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2006.152"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "peer-to-peer"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonH06"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  journal: "IEEE Computer"
  volume: "39"
  number: "5"
  pages: "89-91"
  kind: "article"
  key: "CrowstonH06"
- title: "Emergent Decision-Making Practices in Free/Libre Open Source Software (Floss) Development Teams"
  author:
  - name: "Robert Heckman"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/robert-heckman"
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "U. Yeliz Eseryel"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/u.-yeliz-eseryel"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Eileen Allen"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/eileen-allen"
  - name: "Qing Li"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/qing-li"
  year: "2007"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_6"
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_6"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "peer-to-peer"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HeckmanCEHAL07"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "71-84"
  booktitle: "Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation, IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11-14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland"
  editor:
  - name: "Joseph Feller"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/joseph-feller"
  - name: "Brian Fitzgerald"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/brian-fitzgerald"
  - name: "Walt Scacchi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/walt-scacchi"
  - name: "Alberto Sillitti"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/alberto-sillitti"
  volume: "234"
  series: "IFIP"
  publisher: "Springer"
  isbn: "978-0-387-72485-0"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "HeckmanCEHAL07"
- title: "eResearch Workflows for Studying Free and Open Source Software Development"
  author:
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Andrea Wiggins"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/andrea-wiggins"
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  year: "2008"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_39"
  abstract: "This paper introduces eResearch workflow tools as a model for the research community studying free and open source software and its development. The paper first introduces eResearch as increasingly practiced in fields such as astrophysics and biology, then contrasts the practice of research on free and open source software. After outlining suitable research data sets the paper introduces a class of tools known as scientific workflow frameworks, focusing on one—Taverna—and introducing its features. To further explain the tool a complete workflow used for original research on FLOSS is described. Finally the paper considers the trade-offs inherent in these tools. "
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_39"
  tags:
  - "completeness"
  - "meta-model"
  - "scientific workflow"
  - "model-driven development"
  - "data-flow"
  - "source-to-source"
  - "Meta-Environment"
  - "workflow"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HowisonWC08"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "405-411"
  booktitle: "Open Source Development, Communities and Quality, IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software, OSS 2008, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy"
  editor:
  - name: "Barbara Russo"
    link: "http://www.unibz.it/~russo"
  - name: "Ernesto Damiani"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/ernesto-damiani"
  - name: "Scott A. Hissam"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/scott-a.-hissam"
  - name: "Björn Lundell"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/bj%C3%B6rn-lundell"
  - name: "Giancarlo Succi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/giancarlo-succi"
  volume: "275"
  series: "IFIP"
  publisher: "Springer"
  isbn: "978-0-387-09683-4"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "HowisonWC08"
- title: "Effective Work Practices for FLOSS Development: A Model and Propositions"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "Hala Annabi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/hala-annabi"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Chengetai Masango"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/chengetai-masango"
  year: "2005"
  doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.222"
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.222"
  tags:
  - "meta-model"
  - "model-driven development"
  - "Meta-Environment"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonAHM05"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38 2005), CD-ROM / Abstracts Proceedings, 3-6 January 2005, Big Island, HI, USA"
  publisher: "IEEE Computer Society"
  isbn: "0-7695-2268-8"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "CrowstonAHM05"
- title: "Core and Periphery in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Team Communications"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "Kangning Wei"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kangning-wei"
  - name: "Qing Li"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/qing-li"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  year: "2006"
  doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.101"
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.101"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "peer-to-peer"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonWLH06"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "39th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-39 2006), CD-ROM / Abstracts Proceedings, 4-7 January 2006, Kauai, HI, USA"
  publisher: "IEEE Computer Society"
  isbn: "0-7695-2507-5"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "CrowstonWLH06"
- title: "The social structure of free and open source software development"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  year: "2005"
  doi: "http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/crowston/index.html"
  links:
    doi: "http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/crowston/index.html"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "social"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonH05"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  journal: "First Monday"
  volume: "10"
  number: "2"
  kind: "article"
  key: "CrowstonH05"
- title: "Social Dynamics of FLOSS Team Communication Across Channels"
  author:
  - name: "Andrea Wiggins"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/andrea-wiggins"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  year: "2008"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_11"
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_11"
  tags:
  - "social"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/WigginsHC08"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "131-142"
  booktitle: "Open Source Development, Communities and Quality, IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software, OSS 2008, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy"
  editor:
  - name: "Barbara Russo"
    link: "http://www.unibz.it/~russo"
  - name: "Ernesto Damiani"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/ernesto-damiani"
  - name: "Scott A. Hissam"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/scott-a.-hissam"
  - name: "Björn Lundell"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/bj%C3%B6rn-lundell"
  - name: "Giancarlo Succi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/giancarlo-succi"
  volume: "275"
  series: "IFIP"
  publisher: "Springer"
  isbn: "978-0-387-09683-4"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "WigginsHC08"
- title: "Social dynamics of free and open source team communications"
  author:
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Keisuke Inoue"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/keisuke-inoue"
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  year: "2006"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34226-5_32"
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34226-5_32"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "social"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HowisonIC06"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "319-330"
  booktitle: "Open Source Systems, IFIP Working Group 2.13 Foundation on Open Source Software, June 8-10, 2006, Como, Italy"
  editor:
  - name: "Ernesto Damiani"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/ernesto-damiani"
  - name: "Brian Fitzgerald"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/brian-fitzgerald"
  - name: "Walt Scacchi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/walt-scacchi"
  - name: "Marco Scotto"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/marco-scotto"
  - name: "Giancarlo Succi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/giancarlo-succi"
  volume: "203"
  series: "IFIP"
  publisher: "Springer"
  isbn: "0-387-34225-7"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "HowisonIC06"
- title: "Coordination of Free/Libre Open Source Software Development"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "Kangning Wei"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kangning-wei"
  - name: "Qing Li"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/qing-li"
  - name: "U. Yeliz Eseryel"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/u.-yeliz-eseryel"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  year: "2005"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "peer-to-peer"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonWLEH05"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2005, December 11-14, 2005, Las Vegas, NV, USA"
  editor:
  - name: "David E. Avison"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/david-e.-avison"
  - name: "Dennis F. Galletta"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/dennis-f.-galletta"
  publisher: "Association for Information Systems"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "CrowstonWLEH05"
- title: "Defining Open Source Software Project Success"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "Hala Annabi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/hala-annabi"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  year: "2003"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "peer-to-peer"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonAH03"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "327-340"
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003, December 14-17, 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA"
  publisher: "Association for Information Systems"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "CrowstonAH03"
- title: "Effective work practices for software engineering: free/libre open source software development"
  author:
  - name: "Kevin Crowston"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/kevin-crowston"
  - name: "Hala Annabi"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/hala-annabi"
  - name: "James Howison"
    link: "http://james.howison.name/"
  - name: "Chengetai Masango"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/chengetai-masango"
  year: "2004"
  doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1029997.1030003"
  links:
    doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1029997.1030003"
  tags:
  - "source-to-source"
  - "software engineering"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CrowstonAHM04"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "18-26"
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research, WISER 2004, Newport Beach, CA, USA, November 5, 2004"
  editor:
  - name: "Nikolay Mehandjiev"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/nikolay-mehandjiev"
  - name: "Pearl Brereton"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/pearl-brereton"
  - name: "Keith H. Bennett"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/keith-h.-bennett"
  - name: "David Budgen"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/david-budgen"
  - name: "Paul J. Layzell"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/paul-j.-layzell"
  publisher: "ACM"
  isbn: "1-58113-988-8"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "CrowstonAHM04"