Open Source Data Treasure Trove
August 2, 2012
Hungering for open source data? The H Open reports, “Data on 500,000 Open Source Projects Available.” The trove comes from Ohloh, a directory of open source projects maintained by Black Duck Software. The projects listed are all available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. The write up reveals:
“The company also made a RESTful API available that allows information about the projects to be queried. Ohloh analyses projects from around 5,000 repositories, including GitHub, SourceForge, Google Code, kernel.org, Eclipse, Mozilla, and Apache.
“To use the API, users first have to register for a key and they can then query metrics such as the number of active contributors and commits, the number of lines of code, the main programming language used, and licensing information for the project. Black Duck uses the Ohloh database to identify items such as particularly active new projects or licensing trends.”
The folks at Black Duck are also working on a new version of their code search for Ohloh, now in beta; they hope the search will help improve links between project code and metadata.
Since its founding in 2002, Black Duck Software has been dedicated to supplying strategy, products, and services to enable the adoption of open source software on the enterprise scale. In fact, they boast that they are the leading provider of such solutions worldwide.
Cynthia Murrell,August 2, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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