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| − | ==CLAIM == | + | <div> |
| − | <span style="font-size:12.0pt">OHO is a search engine for open hardware, open design and maker projects. We crawl the web and make its content searchable for you. Start searching and build a better tomorrow.
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| − | ==PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES==
| + | OHO is a search engine for open hardware, open design and maker projects. We crawl the web and make its content searchable for you. Start searching and build a better tomorrow. |
| − | <span style="font-size:12.0pt">According to the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), open source hardware is defined as “[…] hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can '''study''', '''modify''', '''distribute''', '''make''', and '''sell''' the design or hardware based on that design.” (See the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Definition 1.0 <u>[https://www.oshwa.org/definition/ here]</u>.) Open source hardware is an alternative IP management strategy, which transfers the logic of open source development from software to physical products. It opens up new avenues for individuals, businesses and non-profits to co-create products and related services.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">However, its distributed nature and the fact that, unlike software, hardware production requires physical handling, have made this emerging field virtually invisible for the public. '''Did you know that hundreds and thousands of projects for sharing and developing complex open source hardware have been created around the world since the middle of the last decade?'''</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Despite the fact that this is well known for practitioners in the field, only few isolated initiatives such as the following have purposely contributed to making examples of open source hardware more visible:</span></p>
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| − | *<span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Certified Projects Directory of the OSHWA, see <u>[https://certification.oshwa.org/ here]</u></span>
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| − | *<span style="font-size:12.0pt">List of open-source hardware projects on Wikipedia, see <u>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_hardware_projects here]</u></span>
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| − | *<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Listed medical equipment projects by The Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²), see <u>[https://www.opensourceimaging.org/projects/ here]</u></span>
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| − | <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Apart from the first example with a strong focus on licensing aspects, these initiatives do not provide the required information for people to build, produce, use, modify, upgrade or disseminate the wide variety of existing open source hardware '''products'''. It remains '''unclear''' even for practitioners in the field '''what''' '''kind''' of documentation for products and components are out there or even '''how open''' they actually are.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In today’s world, knowledge is the key to success. However, when it comes to studying, modifying, distributing, making, and selling open hardware, people need to be able to easily '''find''' and '''promote''' '''technical''' '''documentation'''.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"> </p>
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| − | GOALS==
| + | = Goals = |
| − | OHO seeks to strike a new path for the future of OSH by serving as a meta source for complex open hardware products. It follows three main objectives:</span></p>
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| − | #<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Create a crawler-based search engine to find and disseminate complex OSH products</span>
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| − | #<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Provide and curate a wide-ranging directory for complex OSH products</span>
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| − | #<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Create a strong and diverse open hardware community that supports the further development of OHO</span>
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| − | ==PRODUCTS==
| + | OHO seeks to strike a new path for the future of OSH by serving as a meta source for complex open hardware projects. |
| − | This results in the following three products that have been integrated so far as part of OHO:</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">1. Search engine</span>'''</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Using an automatic crawler-based search technique, publicly available products with a particular focus on sustainability are searched for throughout the web, entered into an (expandable) category system and displayed as search results together with preview photos and a short description. Products published under free licenses or where their original developer are in contact with us will be documented in more details especially when construction plans and part lists are available.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">2. Product directory</span>'''</p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">An extensive collection of relevant complex OSH products is available on the product directory of the platform. The directory consists of:</span></p> <ol style="list-style-type:upper-roman">
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| − | <li><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Crawled </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">data sets for complex open hardware products</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">improving searchability of the projects and their documentation</span></li>
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| − | <li><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Manually entered and </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">curated data sets for complex open hardware products reporting on their openness according to product- and process-related criteria</span></li>
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| − | <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">In addition, the directory will create an important database for research on the field of OSH. Currently, anyone interested can already upload data such as photos, videos, texts, comments, CAD drawings, parts lists, etc. and thus add new products or documents for existing products. Please register <u>here</u>.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">3. Open source hardware community</span>'''</p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">As a basis for gathering free technical knowledge and (further) developing open products, it is essential to create, organize and support a broad community of interested parties and participants (organizations, companies and individuals). For this reason, the website itself is an open project, which means that anyone interested is welcome to contribute as follows:</span></span></p>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Provide information on interesting products [http://www.opensource-hardware.org/wiki/Spezial:Mit_Formular_bearbeiten/Projekt <u>more</u>]</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Supplement existing information, uploading new information [http://www.opensource-hardware.org/wiki/Observatory <u>more</u>]</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Give general feedback on this platform, ideas and suggestions <u>more (tbd)</u></span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Extend the platform with your own solutions <u>more (tbd)</u></span></span>
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| − | ==TARGET GROUPS ==
| + | It follows three main objectives: |
| − | 1. Individuals</span>'''</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Developers, makers, engineers, designers, users and other individuals with the following interests:</span></span></p>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Build/produce</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Use</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Modify and upgrade</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Disseminate</span></span>
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| − | <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">…new product designs, instructions.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">2. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)</span>'''</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Start-ups, manufacturers, producers, service providers, business founders looking for the following opportunities:</span></span></p>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Seeking ideas, instructions and construction plans for open hardware and sustainable products</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Initiating or participating in OSH communities</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Sharing developed solutions with the public to support the reciprocal nature of OSH</span></span>
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| − | <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">3. Non-profit organizations from the fields of</span>'''</span></p>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">OSH (development communities)</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Do-it-yourself (DIY) (fab labs, makerspaces)</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Startup promotion (incubators, accelerators)</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Sustainable product creation (interest groups and initiatives promoting renewable energies, circular economy, etc.)</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Science and education (research institutes, non-governmental organizations supporting open science, open access and open knowledge, etc.)</span></span>
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| − | ==SUSTAINABILITY AND OSH==
| + | 1. Create a crawler-based search engine to find and disseminate complex OSH projects<br/> 2. Provide and curate a wide-ranging directory of complex OSH projects with needed information to assess their level of openness<br/> 3. Build a strong and diverse open hardware community that supports the further development of OHO |
| − | Through the creation of a joint platform, this project is linking the sustainability concept with the principles of open development. Open source design (OSD) as an alternative to classical product development can support more sustainable production and consumption in industrialized countries.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">By sustainable products, we refer to products that pursue the three aspects of ecological, economic and social sustainability as equal goals. Specifically, we are currently working on the following categories: see <u>[http://www.opensource-hardware.org/wiki/Kategorien here]</u>.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"> </p>
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| − | ==BACKGROUND INFORMATION == | + | = Products = |
| − | The search engine is based on an automatic crawler and indexing software, which searches the Internet for specific search terms, filters the links found, categorizes them and creates thumbs and short descriptions. In the beta version, the search engine will be available in three languages: English, German and Spanish. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">More languages will be added later.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Platform Technology</span>'''</p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">This platform is based on the software MediaWiki, which is also used for all Wikipedia versions worldwide and for many other Wiki projects. The use of MediaWiki for Wikipedia offers the following advantages:</span></span></p>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Automatic versioning of all uploaded files</span></span>
| + | This results in the following three products that have been integrated so far as part of OHO: |
| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Automatic documentation and versioning of all changes</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Facilitation of collaborative work in smaller or larger teams</span></span>
| + | == OHO Search Engine == |
| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Discussion pages to clarify questions and problems</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Uncomplicated setup of new language versions</span></span>
| + | Using an automatic crawler-based search technique, publicly available project documentation with a particular focus on sustainability are searched for throughout the web, entered into an (expandable) category system and displayed as search results together with preview photos and a short description. Project documentation published under free licenses or where their original developer are in contact with us will be documented in more details especially when construction plans and part lists are available. |
| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Runs fast and stable even with large data volumes and user numbers</span></span>
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| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Various extensions for important functions available</span></span>
| + | == OHO Project Directory == |
| − | ==THE PARTNERS==
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| − | OHO was founded as a collaboration between the following partners:</span></span></p> | + | An extensive collection of relevant complex OSH projects is available on [[The_OHO_Product_Directory|The OHO Product Directory]]. The directory consists of: |
| − | *<span style="font-size:medium">The non-profit association <u>[[OSEG|Open Source Ecology Germany e.V. (OSEG)]]</u></span> | + | |
| − | *<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US">The French-German research project <u>[[TU_Berlin|OPEN! Methods and tools for community-based product development]]</u></span></span></span>
| + | i) Crawled data sets for complex open hardware projects improving searchability of the projects and their documentation<br/> ii) Manually entered and curated data sets for complex open hardware projects reporting on their openness according to product- and process-related criteria |
| − | *<span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:medium">The project carrier <u>[[Open_Circularity|Open Circularity]]</u></span></span></span> | + | |
| − | <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">The collaboration aims to support the sharing of publicly available technical knowledge.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><!-- www.opensource-hardware.org ist eine Suchmaschine und Entwicklungsplattform für Produkte und Technologien, die eine nachhaltige Entwicklung zum Ziel haben und die von (Privat)Personen, KMUs und Startups sowie von kleinen Organisationen selbst hergestellt werden können.
| + | In addition, the directory will create an important database for research on the field of OSH. Currently, anyone interested can already link documentation for existing projects such as photos, videos, texts, comments, CAD drawings, parts lists, etc. or add new projects. Please register <u>here (tbd)</u>. |
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| | + | == OHO Community == |
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| | + | As a basis for gathering free technical knowledge and (further) developing the OHO products, it is essential to create, organize and support a broad community of interested parties and participants (organizations, companies and individuals). For this reason, the website itself is an open project, which means that anyone interested is welcome to contribute as follows: |
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| | + | *Provide information on interesting OSH projects [http://www.opensource-hardware.org/wiki/Spezial:Mit_Formular_bearbeiten/Projekt more] |
| | + | *Supplement existing information, uploading new information [http://www.opensource-hardware.org/wiki/Observatory more] |
| | + | *Give general feedback on this platform, ideas and suggestions more (tbd) |
| | + | *Extend the platform with your own solutions more (tbd) |
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| | + | <!-- www.opensource-hardware.org ist eine Suchmaschine und Entwicklungsplattform für Produkte und Technologien, die eine nachhaltige Entwicklung zum Ziel haben und die von (Privat)Personen, KMUs und Startups sowie von kleinen Organisationen selbst hergestellt werden können. |
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| | Hierbei beziehen wir uns auf das Drei-Säulen-Modell der nachhaltigen Entwicklung, welches die drei Aspekte ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Nachhaltigkeit als gleichberechtigte Ziele definiert und die Neuausrichtung von Produktion und Konsum in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit in den Industrieländern, sowie die Bekämpfung der Armut in den Entwicklungsländern zum Ziel hat. | | Hierbei beziehen wir uns auf das Drei-Säulen-Modell der nachhaltigen Entwicklung, welches die drei Aspekte ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Nachhaltigkeit als gleichberechtigte Ziele definiert und die Neuausrichtung von Produktion und Konsum in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit in den Industrieländern, sowie die Bekämpfung der Armut in den Entwicklungsländern zum Ziel hat. |
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| | **Onshape: richtet sich an CAD-Entwickler | | **Onshape: richtet sich an CAD-Entwickler |
| − | *sie bieten Projektinformationen ausschließlich oder teilweise kostenpflichtig an --></p> | + | *sie bieten Projektinformationen ausschließlich oder teilweise kostenpflichtig an --> |
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