Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Publication Title
GROUP '18 Conference
First Page
219
Last Page
229
Abstract
As the organizational use of open source software (OSS) increases, it requires the adjustment of organizational routines to manage new OSS risk. These routines may be influenced by community-developed open data standards to explicate, analyze, and report OSS risks. Open data standards are co-created in open communities for unifying the exchange of information. The SPDX® specification is such an open data standard to explicate and share OSS risk information. The development and subsequent adoption of SPDX raises the questions of how organizations make sense of SPDX when improving their own risk management routines, and of how a community benefits from the experiential knowledge that is contributed back by organizational adopters. To explore these questions, we conducted a single case, multi-component field study, connecting with members of organizations that employed SPDX. The results of this study contribute to understanding the development and adoption of open data standards within open source environments.
Recommended Citation
Gandhi, Robin A.; Germonprez, Matt; and Link, Georg J.P., "Open Data Standards for Open Source Software Risk Management Routines: An Examination of SPDX" (2018). Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications. 50.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/isqafacpub/50
Funded by the University of Nebraska at Omaha Open Access Fund
Comments
© 2018 Robin Gandhi, Matt Germonprez and Georg J.P. Link. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148333