TY - GEN
T1 - The Rise of Curation on GitHub
AU - Wu, Yu
AU - Kropcznyski, Jessica
AU - Prates, Raquel
AU - Carroll, John M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/11/12
Y1 - 2015/11/12
N2 - Recently, curation practices start to develop in GitHub, where developers systematically put efforts to select, evaluate, and organize existing artifacts for the purposes of preservation and future use in software development. Curation practices in social media sites, such as Twitter and Pinterest, have been investigated, raising questions about the nature of collaborative curation in a professional/product-oriented site. In this study, we identify and characterize curation projects hosted on GitHub, and compare curation projects with software projects to study how this practice takes place and how it is different from the original use of GitHub. We find that curation has emerged as a highly popular category of GitHub project, which is directed to learning and professional development, and curation practice leverages collaborative tools and practices native to GitHub. Although curation projects and software projects use the same set of activities for development, they are different from each other in terms of the quantity of each type of activity performed by developers.
AB - Recently, curation practices start to develop in GitHub, where developers systematically put efforts to select, evaluate, and organize existing artifacts for the purposes of preservation and future use in software development. Curation practices in social media sites, such as Twitter and Pinterest, have been investigated, raising questions about the nature of collaborative curation in a professional/product-oriented site. In this study, we identify and characterize curation projects hosted on GitHub, and compare curation projects with software projects to study how this practice takes place and how it is different from the original use of GitHub. We find that curation has emerged as a highly popular category of GitHub project, which is directed to learning and professional development, and curation practice leverages collaborative tools and practices native to GitHub. Although curation projects and software projects use the same set of activities for development, they are different from each other in terms of the quantity of each type of activity performed by developers.
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U2 - 10.1609/hcomp.v3i1.13244
DO - 10.1609/hcomp.v3i1.13244
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85032747317
T3 - Proceedings of the 3rd AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, HCOMP 2015
SP - 46
EP - 47
BT - Proceedings of the 3rd AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, HCOMP 2015
A2 - Gerber, Elizabeth
A2 - Ipeirotis, Panos
PB - AAAI press
T2 - 3rd AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, HCOMP 2015
Y2 - 8 November 2015 through 11 November 2015
ER -