By Anna Powell-Smith, freelance web developer.
I recently attended the Collaborations Workshop as a supported developer: thanks to SSI for organising a very interesting two days. I'm a freelance web developer, and I came to the Collaborations Workshop partly to show off my Open Domesday project, the first free online copy of Domesday Book. But I also came to learn about the cutting edge of software in British academia, and observe the challenges that academics face when producing open data and open source code.
After a thought-provoking series of workshops, discussions…