Open-Source at Oxford is an initiative of the Digital Scholarship at Oxford (DiSc) team at the University of Oxford, led by Miguel Arana-Catania.
The aim of the initiative is to help the University’s software projects generate communities of researchers and developers around them that reuse, improve and expand these projects beyond their initial development period, and where possible help them to achieve sustainability and a wider reach and impact.
The projects are published on the initiative’s GitHub space and website, and DiSc’s team works to make it easier to connect those responsible for the projects with collaborators, both developers and researchers, who are interested in using, sharing and further developing these projects.
Examples of collaborations might be, for example, a researcher adapting the software to work with a new dataset, or a developer creating a new visualisation or re-implementing the methodology using artificial intelligence.
To this end, DiSc organises workshops and hackathons to facilitate debate and joint work on the projects. On the other hand, we publicise the projects through our communication channels and networks, as well as in the courses we run.
DiSc both facilitates collaboration with these projects and accompanies the process to ensure that it develops effectively.
If you are interested in this initiative, please contact us!