About Us
FLOSSmole contains:
- 300 GB of data covering the period 2004-now, and growing
- datasets from over 170 web spidering operations, and growing each month
- data about 200,000 different open source projects and their developers
FLOSSmole aims to:
- freely provide raw data about open source projects in multiple formats for anyone to download
- integrate donated data from other research teams
- provide some tools so that you can gather your own data
Acknowledgement
- This site has been partially supported by NSF Grants 07-08437 & 07-08767 .
- Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Citing/Conditions of Use:
Here's how to cite FLOSSmole data:
Howison, J., Conklin, M., & Crowston, K. (2006). FLOSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 1(3), 17–26.
All original data is copyright of its owners.
Conditions of Use
- If you use the data, please cite the source as shown above.
- Please be ethical in your use of this data. You may wish to consult the publication "Ethical decision-making and Internet research: Recommendations from the AOIR ethics working committee" (available online from http://www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf).
- Please be aware that your use of this data for research may require approval by your company's or institution's IRB (Institutional Review Board).
