Open Systems for Open Minds: Building the Library Without Walls

Open Education, Open Minds

Over the past few decades, advances in science and technology have produced a seemingly endless stream of new data, ideas, and knowledge, challenging scientists and educators alike to keep abreast of the latest concepts and discoveries in their fields. Adding to the wealth of new information posted online every day, more and more historical documents, books, and educational materials are being ...

Open source, open minds?: An investigation into attitudes towards open source library management systems in UK higher education libraries

Techniques For Building Open Hypermedia Systems

This paper describes a methodology the authors found very useful in the development of open systems for objectoriented languages, user-interface builders and hypermedia. We promote the idea of "open designs" as being a key factor for success and discuss software engineering techniques useful in implementing such designs.

Open Minds and Open Learning in the ‘cosmopolitan’ Internet

The promise of technology, in particular of the internet, was that access to information would become demography blind. But for all of the successes the global web of information has demonstrated to us, has it really achieved its potential as a vehicle for overcoming the divide between the ‘undereducated’ and the ‘overqualified,’ that is between the generations, or indeed between any of the soc...

Designing and building the mlpack open-source machine learning library

mlpack is an open-source C++ machine learning library with an emphasis on speed and flexibility. Since its original inception in 2007, it has grown to be a large project implementing a wide variety of machine learning algorithms, from standard techniques such as decision trees and logistic regression to modern techniques such as deep neural networks as well as other recently-published cutting-e...