%0 Conference Paper %B WoPDaSD (Workshop on Public Data at International Conference on Open Source Software) %D 2008 %T Cross-repository data linking with RDF and OWL: Towards common ontologies for representing FLOSS data %A James Howison %K FLOSS %K FLOSSmole %X This paper provides an approach to the problem of integrating data from multiple research repositories for FLOSS data. It introduces semantic web technologies (RDF, OWL, OWL-DL reasoners and SPARQL) to argue that these are useful for building shared research infrastructure. The paper illustrates its point by describing parts of an ontology developed for the integration and analysis of project communications drawn from FLOSSmole, the Notre Dame archive and direct collection of data. RDF vocabularies provide a way to agree on things we agree about as well as a way to be clearer about ways in which we disagree. %B WoPDaSD (Workshop on Public Data at International Conference on Open Source Software) %> https://floss.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/howison2008cross-repositor_0.pdf %0 Conference Paper %B 1st International Conference on Open Source Software %D 2005 %T OSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses %A James Howison %A Conklin, Megan S. %K FLOSSmole %X This paper introduces a collaborative project, “OSSmole”, designed to gather, share and store comparable data and analyses of free and open source software development for academic research. The project draws on the ongoing collection and analysis efforts of many research groups, reducing duplication, and promoting compatibility both across sources of FLOSS data and across research groups and analyses. The paper outlines current difficulties with the current typical quantitative FLOSS research process and uses these to develop requirements and presents the design of the system. %B 1st International Conference on Open Source Software %C Genova, Italy %> https://floss.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/OSSmole%20%20A%20collaborative%20repository_0.pdf