Open Source & The Open Source Psychometrics Project, Exams of Applied Economics

Download Open Source & The Open Source Psychometrics Project and more Exams Applied Economics in PDF only on Docsity! Open Source & The Open Source Psychometrics Project Susanne Goettfert & Franz Kriner Open Source Characteristics ● Freely available ● Modification ● Redistribution Participation ● Free participation ● Anonymous data ● International research community ● Comment section ● Email for questions/concerns/issues Transparency in Open Source Topic: Open-Source | Transparency | Susanne Goettfert & Franz Kriner | Date: 10.05.2021 | Course: Openness & Organizations UIBK In order to facilitate new contribution by members, open-source communities should be as transparent as possible (Haddad 2019). Realizing transparency in open-source (Haddad 2019): Recommendations To avoid - Making contributions transparent - Peer review contributions - Transparency in discussions about issues - Transparency of promotion to committer or maintainer - Bad peer review (The origin of code rates higher than the quality). - Ambiguities in the process of decision making. - Discussions with impact on the project happen in private. Unfolding transparency Topic: Open-Source | Transparency | Susanne Goettfert & Franz Kriner | Date: 10.05.2021 | Course: Openness & Organizations UIBK Is this how transparency does actually look like in open-source projects? How open and transparent are open-source communities in practice? Empirical Case: Open Psychometrics Topic: Open-Source | Transparency | Susanne Goettfert & Franz Kriner | Date: 10.05.2021 | Course: Openness & Organizations UIBK Open Psychometric: A meritocracy based community? There is no info about how a member can becoming a project leader or a “trusted lieutenant” who can edit test and accept or decline community contributions. There is no info about who is managing the project and how many people are in charge of it. Open Psychometric: A collection of permanent digital folds? Every digital fold must have according to Shaik & Vaast (2016) the following properties: - Is created and sustained by actors with efforts - Is a reaction to a coalescing pressure - Is momentary - Must open to community after they pressured is resolved Empirical Case: Open Psychometrics Topic: Open-Source | Transparency | Susanne Goettfert & Franz Kriner | Date: 10.05.2021 | Course: Openness & Organizations UIBK Data is available: The open source psychometrics project does offer the collected data sets for download. But some datasets seem to be rather old. However, it is available for free for everyone. Source code of tests is not available: Some users in the ask in the discussion forum about the source code, which is not available. The admin replies for one user and states: Empirical Case: Open Psychometrics Topic: Open-Source | Transparency | Susanne Goettfert & Franz Kriner | Date: 10.05.2021 | Course: Openness & Organizations UIBK Little documentation: There are no informations about the governance, the roadmap, an user guide, the development process, submission guidelines, contributor guides etc. There is only one email given for questions, corrections, suggestions, and proposals. No info about peer review and how to contribute: If a user wants to contribute something he or she has to use the provided email. But there are no acceptance criteria and no process infos about how to contribute. It is not transparent which contributions were submitted and which were declined or accepted and why.