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Paperpile
Paperpile is a web-based commercial reference management software with special emphasis on integration with Google Docs and Google Scholar. It imports data from academic publisher websites and from databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Google Books, and arXiv. Paperpile can retrieve and store publication PDF files to the user's Google Drive account.
Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
From the web site: "The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a community-driven effort to create a commonly-accepted, digital, symbolic representation of music notation documents. We strive to establish the design principles and the technological and representational requirements that will enable the discipline of musicology to take full advantage of digital technologies. We are working to provide guidelines and tools that can be widely used by libraries, museums, and individual scholars to encode musical scores for research, teaching, and preservation activities." Tutorials are provided on the site: http://music-encoding.org/support/MEI1st Info on MEI-L listserv is available: http://music-encoding.org/support/mailingList
JuxtaposeJS
JuxtaposeJS helps tell stories by comparing two image frames, including photos and gifs. It provides a means, by a draggable pane, to see the changes and visually analyse the differences between the two images. It’s an adaptable storytelling tool that is ideal for highlighting then/now stories that explain slow changes over time (growth of a city skyline, regrowth of a forest, etc.) or before/after stories that show the impact of single dramatic events (natural disasters, protests, wars, etc.). JuxtaposeJS is free, easy to use, and open source. Almost anyone can use JuxtaposeJS, so long as you’ve got links to two similar pieces of media (hosted on your own server or on Flickr). Once you’ve got the links, all you need to do is copy and paste the URLs into the appropriate fields at Juxtapose.knightlab.com, modify labels as you see fit, add photo credits, and then copy and paste the resulting embed code into your site. You’ve probably seen similar photo slider tools elsewhere. They work well, but we built JuxtaposeJS without relying on jQuery, which makes the tool more lightweight, flexible, and adaptable. It’s also accessible to any newsroom or journalist, regardless of technical skills. It also offers some customization out of the box. You can modify the handle’s start position to highlight the area of change and choose to click the slider instead of dragging. It is responsive and works on phones and tablets with the touch or swipe of a finger.
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web mapping service application that includes street maps, satellite images, street view perspectives, as well as web functions such as routing and geocoding. The API can be used outside of the normal Google Maps interface for other projects.
Inkscape
Inkscape is a ‘find’ an oasis of creativity. It is open-source software which allowed me to take my first step in my journey towards creating 2D graphics. Currently, I am a student and as a requirement of my course, I have to write a thesis in addition to making a digital artefact. I wanted to find software to create image and visualisations that would help me in my research. Often image is not considered a viable option in research but It is my opinion that the nature of research will change especially as society becomes more visually-centred through the use of digital. Thus, one of the changes will be the advantage of using computer animated stimuli in research. Images formulate meanings, and often more succinctly than words. It is my intention to combine the written word and 2D graphic image. Therefore, I am relieved to find software like Inkscape to help me develop my theory without having to buy expensive software. Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor suitable for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and it is a credible alternative to Adobe Illustrator for a student or anyone else on a tight budget. The company itself, also appealed because it has similar ethics as I have in that it is non-hierarchical and encourages newcomers to actively participate. It is good to find a software company with an ethos you can be comfortable with. I have discovered that Inkscape Development tries to be a collaborative endeavour between the company and the user and strongly encourages newcomers. My on-line presence would normally be minimal but I have ventured into their on-line community in order to participate in their discussions and forums and I am enjoying the engagement. There is also a Inkscape Wiki site. As a fledging to the world of digital it has to be said that my lens extends to the basic functions of Inkscape, but on saying that I was more than happy with the basic functions which allowed me to create a 2D character. This drawing would not win any awards but nevertheless I was very impressed by this first attempt. What I liked • It’s free • A clear and user-friendly single document interface. • A choice of flexible tools: pencil, Bezier curve tool, spiral tool and brushes with various widths. • The on-line manual on the interface was reasonably self-explanatory. It came in very useful when I got stuck. • A good selection of colour swatches, filters and extensions. • The use of trace on imported bitmaps. • Layer transparency effects. • The main tools palette is aligned vertically down the left hand side in a way that uses the minimum of space. • The import and export in various file formats: SVG, AI, EPS, PDF PS and PNG. • Designed to be extensible and customised with add-ons. I was surprised that the interface seemed fairly intuitive and self-explanatory. With one click on the icon, the tool is highlighted and described. It has to be said though, that it does require time and patience to get the hang of the ‘pencil’ and ‘berzier curve tool’ but I did anticipate that this would be the case. In addition, I found the ‘node’ tool quite hard to operate. As this tool allows for intricate reshaping I found it difficult with small items. However, Inkscape deserves the time taken to learn all the rich functions and hopefully when I become more confident my opinion will be more positive. There is a vast array of official and external video tutorials to assist an user. However, I preferred to take a more hands on approach and spent time simply trying out the various functions. I had good fun designing 3D boxes, eclipses and circles. The palette which houses ‘fill’ and ‘stroke’ can be displayed in a collapsible format making it easy to colour the object and I enjoyed ‘grouping’ the items together to make an array of designs. If the company’s main objective is to provide a user-friendly suite of applications and an easy to use desk-top then they have certainly fulfilled that criteria. The website is clear and concise with a lay-out which is easy to navigate and garner information. A badly designed website can put me off the product but I had no worries on this score as I found the colour scheme easy on the eye. Inkscape is downloaded on my computer and I hope that through the mountain of reading and assignments I can get the time to become more confident and competent in its use. I strongly believe that Inkscape should be on DiRT Directory as it is a viable option for scholarly research for those in universities, colleges and schools; and an option for individuals starting up as freelance researchers, in addition to the potential use for all creatives, business people or anyone that wants to make their documents much more interesting to read.
StoryMapJS
StoryMapJS is a project by KnightLab which aims to help journalists and historians tell stories by using maps using a straight-forward and simple authoring tool. It is constructed around a framework of highlighting the locations of a series of events. As an editing tool, it is relatively intuitive and easy to use.
Forte
Created by musicians for musicians, Forte is a unique and easy to use score writing software for everyday musicians, teachers and choir leaders. If you are looking for a tool that fits your needs, is easy to use and affordable. The website also offers free sheet music to get you started.
Active Server Pages (ASP)
Active Server Pages (ASP) was a proprietary server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages, developed by Microsoft. It was discontinued in 2000.
Sigil
Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform e-book editor, designed for editing books in EPUB format.
- Full UTF-16 support and full EPUB 2 spec support
- Multiple views: code view (complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax), book view (WYSIWYG), and preview view
- Table of contents generator, metadata editor, multi-language user interface, spell checking tool, EPUB compliance validator, support for find and replace
- Import, organize, and manage EPUB and HTML files, images, style sheets, audio, video, and fonts
Springpad
Springpad was a web-based application that allowed registered users to create, organize, and share annotations and notes. Allowed users to bookmark webpages, search online products, organize information with tags, create a digital bulletin board, and share information via public pages. Springpad ceased operations on June 25, 2014. Its website (http://springpad.com) is no longer active, but additional information is available via Wikipedia.
Collin's Parser
A statistical natural language parser for analyzing text to determine its grammatical structure.
Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player
Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player can play Blu-ray Dsic, BDMV, DVD, ISO, Blu-ray Menu, MP4/AVI/MKV, and any other media formats fast without conversion on Apple Mac OS X Yosemite 10.11.
StoryMap JS
VoxcribeCC
VoxcribeCC has the most accurate speaker-independent and topic-independent desktop speech recognition technology. It is used for media (audio\video) transcription and video-captioning.
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VoxcribeCC offers:
• An unmatched ability for audio transcription and subtitle creation and editing,
• Outstanding levels of productivity and quality at incredibly low costs.
Features:
• Direct media-speech-recognition.
• Auto time stamping
• Interactive time-line with audio energy display
• Spell-check and auto text formatting
• Subtitle splitting and merging with automatic audio synchronization
• Visual subtitles with graphically adjustable start and end points
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stylo
The ‘Stylo’ package provides easy-to-use implementations of various established analyses in the field of computational stylistics, including non-traditional authorship attribution, genre recognition, style development (“stylochronometry”), etc. The package includes a number of explanatory methods provided by the function stylo() (multidimensional scaling, principal component analysis, cluster analysis, bootstrap consensus trees). Addtionally, a number of supervised machine-learning methods are available via the function classify() (Delta, support vector machines, naive Bayes, k-nearest neighbors, nearest shrunken centroids). The rolling.delta() function analyses collaborative works and tries to determine the authorship of fragments extracted from them. The oppose() function performs a contrastive analysis between two given sets of texts: among other things, it generates lists of words significantly preferred and avoided by one or more authors in comparison to the texts by another author (or a set of them). (from: "Stylo: a package for stylometric analyses" by Eder/Kestemont/Rybicki)
Mozilla Thimble
A simple web-based HTML and CSS editor geared toward beginners. Thimble splits your window into two panes - one is the editor and the other displays a preview of your work. Includes tutorial projects for learning to code. Offers option for webpages to be published by thimble.webmaker.org.
YahooNotepad
Yahoo! Notepad is a note-taking tool. You may save your notes, and access them later from any web accessible computer. You must be a registered Yahoo! user to use Notepad.
Cornell Notes PDF Generator
This is a simple tool for creating custom notetaking sheets (ie blank, ruled, or graph style). You may automate the generation of the sheets to customize them with your name, date etc.
Roambi Flow
Roambi Flow is an iOS online publishing service. Roambi allows you to transform Excel data and other publications to visualizations compatible with mobile, and also send them to the iPhone or iPad.
Snapzen
Snapzen is a browser tool that is used to collaborate with others about the information on any web page - right from your browser. Discuss information on web pages with your colleagues, friends or family. It is easy to collaborate with others because they see exactly what you see on the web pages. If you still use copy and paste, screenshot tools, email or chat to discuss web pages, Snapzen will show you a better way.
Textflo
This product can filter or format text-based content. It also includes a document or link organiser and search capabilities and might more correctly be termed a text management system. With the large number of documents stored on your computer and online links that you might use, this is a helpful application that allows you to navigate the environment more easily. Although the feature set is now well developed, an inexperienced user should still be able to use it relatively easily. It is not intended only for the expert managers. The key features of the application are therefore as follows: 1. The ability to read text, XML, or parse the contents of PDF or online content (HTML). Binary (Microsoft Office) files are included in the professional version. 2. A set of filter operations that can be applied in sequences, saved and retrieved. 3. A set of folders can be used as default locations for all of your related data. The application runs locally only, there is no requirement for a remote server. 4. A grid or tabular format allows you to view database queries, or for operations over specific columns or cells. A log file might have a standard format that can be queried, or conversion to CSV might be required, for example. 5. An analysis panel allows you to select single or groups of files and compare the content based on known clustering algorithms. Also some basic statistical counts. 6. Basic search from a toolbar, or more complex search operations from a Query form. The search facilities allow you to find information from different views and query types. 7. A separate Organiser application allows you to store your online links or local files, into ordered books and categories that can also be searched over. This allows for querying most of the available information, including keywords, descriptions, notes and content. 8. A Bookmarks form displays a list of ordered file references or links, for any type of file. You can open one of your commonly viewed files or links through a single click.
WebClust
WebClust is a meta search engine that clusters documents into meaningful groups. WebClust presents search results in a horizontal topical arrangement, in addition to a single vertical list. WebClust's data mining technique is meant to make sense of large amounts of textual information extracted from the web, including digital libraries.
Listango
Listango is a free online bookmarking app. Users can save links to web pages and articles using a bookmarklet, organize their links into public or private lists, and share links with friends using Facebook, Twitter or email. Because it is web-based, users can access their bookmarks from any device, anywhere. Listango also offers a free IOS bookmarking app. Listango is designed to work on all modern web browsers, including Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and the latest version of Internet Explorer.
Pinboard
Pinboard is a social bookmarking website that describes itself as "a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site for people who value privacy and speed." The service lets users bookmark content from any web browser, offers browser plugins, and a way to save open tabs in a minimal, fast, and secure environment. You can connect up to three Twitter accounts (search the archives of your tweets), and configure Pinboard to automatically mirror public bookmarks from your accounts on Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. All of your bookmarks from Delicious, Google Bookmarks, Diigo, Firefox, Safari, and many other sources can be imported to your Pinboard account. Everything on the site is available as an RSS feed and you can import and export data in a wide variety of formats. Unlike other popular bookmarking services, Pinboard caters to users who value privacy. You do not need to have any public bookmarks to use the site. Pinboard does not serve any third-party content to logged-in users—that means no scripts, images, analytics trackers, and no ads. You do not have to provide any personally identifying information to open a Pinboard account. The only requirement is a working email address. There is a third-party clients. There is a one time fee of under $10.53. In addition to the basic features, Pinboard offers a bookmark archiving service for an annual fee of $25. The site will crawl and store a copy of every bookmark in your account, and display a special icon you can click to see a cached copy. If the page you bookmarked goes offline, you'll still be able to see the archived copy indefinitely. Pinboard is a small site that features easy access to customer support and communicating with the developer. He is easy to reach through Twitter, IRC or email,.
InqScribe
InqScribe is a low-cost, easy-to-use software for creating transcripts from video or audio files. It has a lot of simple customization features which make it easy to use, but not a lot of extra stuff that might bog a new user down. It's best for transcription, but it can also be used for creating subtitles for videos (it can be set up to export a video with the transcript overlaid on it during playback) and even for coding data (best for codes that do not need durations associated with them). It exports to a range of formats (like CSV) for easy analysis.
Open Science Framework
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free, open source tool designed to help researchers manage the entire research workflow: planning, execution, reporting, archiving and discovery. It is part collaboration software and part version control system. The OSF can be used to manage individual projects or large collaborative ones. Privacy and sharing settings allow for fine-grained control over access to files and materials stored on the platform - share privately with collaborators or publicly with the community at large. Each project, contributor, and file on the OSF is given a persistent unique identifier, making all research products citable. The platform also mints DOIs and ARKs through DataCite. A collaborative wiki allows contributors to work on writing materials simultaneously. API connections with other services (Github, Dropbox, Box, Dataverse, Google Drive, figshare, Zotero, Mendeley, Amazon S3) allow researchers to connect other services they already use in order to see all their materials in one place. The OSF also offers a registry for preregistering research projects and/or analysis plans.
SylvaDB
SylvaDB is a graph database management system. It allows users with no knowledge in graph theory to model, collect, query, and analyze data in a network structure. SylvaDB provides tools for easy creation of schemas and modelling, automatic forms creation to input the data, collaborative features, a visual query editor, global and local search, reports charts generation, networks metrics, and visualizations tools.
Coggle
Coggle is a web-based tool for non-linear structuring and visualization of information. Easy to create visually appealing diagrams with little to no technical expertise. Supports Markdown and LaTeX formatting (use LaTeX via the \\( \\) or \\[ \\] escape sequences). Users can add images by dragging and dropping them in the browser, view change history for each diagram and revert to previous states, and download their work as PDFs or images. Also enables real-time collaboration with others. Possible use cases for Coggle may include:
- Creating mind maps
- Planning research projects and articles
- Visualizing complex problems
- Structuring processes and hierarchies
CartoDB
CartoDB is a cloud based mapping, analysis and visualization engine that lets users build spatial applications for both mobile and the web. Users input tabular data and then construct an interactive visualisation through the web interface. It provides automatic georeferencing functionality and provides APIs for mobile data collection and dissemination. Use is free for up to five tables; after that, there are monthly pricing plans. Development was funded through EU and Spanish research programmes.
Soundflower
Soundflower is a MacOS system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed. Example: Play a YouTube video, and use Soundflower to route the audio signal into recording software such as Audacity. Initially supported and developed by Cycling '74, the project now lives on Google Code where is has received updates from members there. Although the code is maintained on Google Code, you can read about some sample applications on this page at Cycling '74: http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/
OpendTect
A software application that is used for analysing and visualising multi-volume seismic data. Features:
- Visualization and analysis of 2D and 3D seismic data in a single survey
- 2D and 3D horizon tracking including auto-tracking, plane-by-plane, line and manual tracking
- On-the-fly calculation and visualization of various attributes and filters
- Plug-in architecture
HathiTrust Research Center
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) provides research access to the public domain text of the HathiTrust Digital Library. The HTRC is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The HTRC provides an infrastructure to search, collect, analyze, and visualize the full text of nearly 3 million public domain works and is intended for nonprofit and educational researchers.
iOS
Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server
Internet Explorer
flickr
Padlet
What is Padlet? It is an online environmentally friendly online sticky note spot! This tool allows you to create a wall to collaborate with students, teachers, parents and others in the community. Go to http://padlet.com/ to build your own wall. Add sticky note like electronic messages including text, websites, images and videos. Now you may be asking “What can you do with Padlet?” well, you can brainstorm on any topic, plan and organize a collaborative project and list websites to use for research,
Bibliopedia
Bibliopedia will perform advanced data-mining and cross-referencing of scholarly literature to create a humanities-centered collaboratory. As a prototype, it will search resources including JSTOR and Library of Congress for metadata about scholarly articles and books that mention the famed medieval travel narrative The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, examine the articles and books for citations, then save the results in a publicly accessible database. Although using works centered around a single text as a test case, Bibliopedia will be designed to work with all humanities scholarship. Bibliopedia will also allow users to create browsable and customizable bibliographies of all the works cited by each article and book. Most importantly, it will use semantic web technology to perform automated textual analysis, data extraction, cross-referencing, and visualizations of the relationships among texts and authors. Bibliopedia will crawl, aggregate, cross-reference, and display multiple scholarly repositories such as JSTOR, Library of Congress, Project Muse, and Google Books. The project will transform bibliographic data that is currently readable only by humans into machine-readable data via semantic web technology, which will make scholarly resources available for automated analyses, inferences, and visualizations.
Storify
Storify is a way to tell stories using social media, including photos and videos. You can search multiple social networks from one place, drag individual elements into your timeline, and create a story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers. There are built in features to notify your followers of a story update.
SharpEye
SharpEye is music scanning/"OCR" software that can convert an image of a score into an editable format such as MusicXML.
Textpresso
A text-mining system for scientific literature. Textpresso's two major elements are (1) access to full text, so that entire articles can be searched, and (2) introduction of categories of biological concepts and classes that relate to objects (e.g., association, regulation, etc.) or describe one (e.g., methods, etc).
TagCrowd
TagCrowd is a web-based word cloud generator that can accept a URL, text, or an uploaded plain text file. Options are provided to show word frequency, exclude particular words, and more.
Natural Language Toolkit
The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is an open source Python library for text analysis and natural language processing. NLTK can tokenize strings (create a list of words from a set of characters), identify parts of speech, and perform operations based on a word's context.
OxGarage
OxGarage is a web, and RESTful, service to manage the transformation of documents between a variety of formats. The majority of transformations use the Text Encoding Initiative format as a pivot format. OxGarage is based on the Enrich Garage Engine developed by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Oxford University Computing Services for the ENRICH project. See the conversion matrix for details.
music21
From the web site: music21: A toolkit for computer-aided musicology "Music21 is a set of tools for helping scholars and other active listeners answer questions about music quickly and simply. If you’ve ever asked yourself a question like, “I wonder how often Bach does that” or “I wish I knew which band was the first to use these chords in this order,” or “I’ll bet we’d know more about Renaissance counterpoint (or Indian ragas or post-tonal pitch structures or the form of minuets) if I could write a program to automatically write more of them,” then music21 can help you with your work." Web site includes links to documentation and authors, tutorials, FAQs, and mailing list.
Stanford POS Tagger
The Stanford Part-of-Speech Tagger includes English, Arabic, Chinese, and German tagger modules.
Zotero
Zotero is a free tool that collects, manages and cites research sources. It stays on your web browser where you do your work and it's easy to use. It's being downloaded as a firefox extension, used with the chrome and safari browsers or used as a standalone tool. It allows you to attach pdfs, notes and images to your citations, organise them into easily searchable collections for different projects, and open office using any of over 2800 citation styles. references can be added to a zotero library in many different ways: directly from databases, journal websites, google scholar or the library catalogue, by referencing file import ( for example from an Endnote library), by dragging in pdfs from your hard drive, and by entering them manually.
RivEx
RivEX is a GIS tool designed to process vector river networks. It enables the user to undertake a range of tasks associated with the spatial analysis of river networks, including checking the network for topological errors, converting a network to a measured network and generating regular or random sampling points across the network. RivEX is an ESRI AddIn and has been developed to run on ArcGIS 10.2.1. It is not compatible with earlier versions of ArcGIS. There is a cost associated with the software, though this has been discounted for academic use. If you purchase this tool, you will receive all future upgrades free of charge for the current major release.
4th Dimension
4th Dimension is a graphic environment for developing database-driven single-user, client/server and Web applications.
Text Engineering Software Laboratory
Tesla is a virtual research environment for text engineering - a framework you can use to create experiments in corpus linguistics, and to develop new algorithms for natural language processing. Tesla is a client-server application, which can be used by individual researchers as well as by workgroups. The screenshot below shows the experiment editor of Tesla's Client application.
DiscoverText
DiscoverText allows users to import data from a variety of sources (including Facebook & Twitter feeds, plain text, Word, Excel, public YouTube comments, blogs/wikis, PDF, etc.), code them, and generate tag clouds and reports.
Zotpress
Zotpress is a WordPress plugin that enables users to easily add Zotero citations to a WordPress site by using a special syntax that turns a Zotero citation key into a well-formatted inline citation and bibliography, based on the data stored in Zotero.
BuddyPress
BuddyPress is a variant of WordPress that includes social networking features.
TwitterPad
WordPress plug-in for archiving tweets. "This plugin hasn't been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress."
140kit
140kit provides a management layer for tweet collection and analysis. Raw data cannot be passed through to the users, but any analytical process can be run across your dataset, and the data is held for as long as the user wants. When new analytical processes are created, they can be run on existing sets of data. 140kit does not claim any control of the analysis, however it retains ownership of the data collected. Current limits: User: 20,000 Tweets per Dataset or until Dataset time elapses Academic User: 500,000 Tweets per Dataset or until Dataset time elapses
Event Structure Analysis
Developed at Indiana University, Event Structure Analysis is made up of three components: Ethno, prerequisite analysis, and composition analysis. Ethno is an on-line Java program that helps you analyze sequential events; prerequisite analysis produces a diagram showing how events are connected; composition analysis involves coding agent, action, object, and other characteristics of each event.
Dispute Finder
Dispute Finder is a Firefox plugin that allows individuals to tag text on websites as controversial, and view which passages other people have marked.
AnSWR
AnSWR supports qualitative analysis of word-based data. This entails a set of methods for organizing, displaying, processing, summarizing, and interpreting information. Last updated 9/23/2005. Only available for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Google Correlate
Find searches that correlate with real-world data: Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends.
GRETL
GRETL () s a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in C. It features:
- Easy intuitive interface (now in French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, German, Basque, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Czech, Traditional Chinese, Albanian and Greek as well as English)
- A wide variety of estimators: least squares, maximum likelihood, GMM; single-equation and system methods
- Time series methods: ARMA, GARCH, VARs and VECMs, unit-root and cointegration tests, etc.
- Limited dependent variables: logit, probit, tobit, interval regression, models for count and duration data, etc.
- Output models as LaTeX files, in tabular or equation format
- Integrated scripting language: enter commands either via the gui or via script
- Command loop structure for Monte Carlo simulations and iterative estimation procedures
- GUI controller for fine-tuning Gnuplot graphs
- Links to GNU R, GNU Octave and Ox for further data analysis
SwiftRiver
SwiftRiver is free and open source web-based software for real-time filtering, curation, and qualitative analysis of social media data (Twitter, etc.)
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)
"Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is a text analysis software program...LIWC is able to calculate the degree to which people use different categories of words across a wide array of texts." Free and limited web analysis available.
Whatizit
Whatizit can ingest up to 500,000 terms pasted into the input box and execute any of the pre-defined text analysis pipelines.
WEFT QDA
Weft QDA is a free and open-source tool for the analysis of textual data. You may import documents from plain text or PDF, apply character-level coding, category and document memos, retrieve coded text, apply simple coding statistics, apply free-text search, and export to HTML and CSV formats.
HyperRESEARCH
HyperRESEARCH enables users to code and retrieve, build theories, and conduct analyses of your data. You may work with text, graphics, audio and video sources.
Python
A general-purpose high-level programming language that places an emphasis upon code readability. Python supports a number of development models, including object oriented, imperative, and functional design. It provides automatic memory management and a fully dynamic type system. Features:
- Very clear, readable syntax
- Strong introspection capabilities
- Intuitive object orientation
- Natural expression of procedural code
- Full modularity, supporting hierarchical packages
- Exception-based error handling
- Very high level dynamic data types
- Extensive standard libraries and third party modules for virtually every task
- Extensions and modules easily written in C, C++ (or Java for Jython, or .NET languages for IronPython)
- Embeddable within applications as a scripting interface
WordSmith
WordSmith allows users to develop concordances, find keywords, and develop word lists from plain text files.
PDFtoMusic Pro
PDFtoMusic Pro converts PDFs created by other music notation programs to MusicXML scores.
Qualrus
Qualrus is an innovative qualitative data analysis tool that helps you manage unstructured data. Additionally, Qualrus learns your coding trends, provides a visual semantic network display, and gives advice and technical support.
Gamera
A free (under the GNU General Public License) toolkit for the development of document image recognition systems. Features:
- Custom dictionaries may be created to assist with analysis of specific record types
- Extensible functionality
- Optical character recognition (OCR) toolkit plugin
Dropbox
Dropbox is a file hosting service that includes cloud storage, personal cloud, file synchronization, and client software across multiple platforms. Dropbox allows users to create a folder on each of their computers where any type of file can be saved, synchronized, and made available across all computers. Contents of the Dropbox folder are also accessible via dropbox.com and mobile applications. Individual files and folders can be shared with other Dropbox users or made publicly accessible. Dropbox for Business is a paid service targeting organizations by providing administrative controls and auditing functionality while allowing users to create a work account that is completely separate from their personal account but the two are viewable side by side.
TextGrid
TextGrid is a virtual research environment (VRE) for the humanities, providing integrated access to specialized tools, services and content, and serving as a long-term archive for research data in the humanities.
Carbonmade Online Portfolio
An easy and user-friendly online portfolio web based tool. Suitable for illustrators, graphic designers, photographers, writers, journalists, marketers, public relations, communications work.
Scrapy
Scrapy is an open source programming library for web crawling and web page text extraction, written in Python. You can make calls to Scrapy code from within your own scripts and applications to automate the task of extracting data from websites. You would typically use Scrapy to automate the task of visiting one or more web pages, on a website to which you have access. You could alternately use it to invoke web-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Scrapy can download everything it encounters or selected information. One of its capabilities is being able to extract structured data from web pages, such as one or more individual pieces of text from specific locations on the page, or all of the data in a table.
Tabula
Tabula lets you upload a (text-based) PDF file into a simple web interface and magically pull tabular data into CSV format.
NewRadial (INKE)
NewRadial is an interactive visualization environment that uses an adapter system to display and combine content from remotely-served or locally situated databases. Although initially designed for use with image-based databases, NewRadial’s capabilities have been extended to handle the manipulation and annotation, in a visual field, of text-based databases. This adaptive ability makes it ideal for use with literary works, and—given its web-based functionality--ideal for collecting, associating and displaying independent databases together in the same visual field for use by a particular knowledge community. The NewRadial prototype encourages three types of work: 1. A simple search, sorting and manipulation of database objects in a visual field for the purposes of early scholarly inquiry and curiosity-based research 2. Initial, raw and in-process commentary on connections and associations between database objects. Within the database’s visual field, scholars can add comments on such correlations, thus starting conversations, discussions and debates relating to such ideas. These discussions are hosted and archived by the NewRadial server. 3. Larger edition projects in which a community is able to centralize and sort specific selections from a larger database. NewRadial can be used to construct these curated environments, browse such environments, and (if desired) encourage secondary scholarship to proliferate in and around such projects. Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/newradial-inke/
Anthologize
Anthologize is a WordPress plugin that allows users to outline, order, and edit content into a single volume that can be exported as PDF, TEI or epub.
Domeo Annotation Toolkit
Domeo is an extensible web application enabling users to visually and efficiently create and share ontology-based stand-off annotation on HTML or XML document targets. The tool supports manual, fully automated, and semi-automated annotation with complete provenance records, as well as personal or community annotation with access authorization and control.
Coffitivity
Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.
Silk
Silk is a platform for sites that contain collections of information. It's like the Tumblr for websites that have structured content–like software reviews, information about designers, a site with UN datasets, and more. When you have created your site (manually or by uploading one or more datasets), you can visualize and filter your data in a few ways. You can create graphs if your pages contain numbers, maps if you have locations, and filtered tables for just about anything. These visualizations and tables are interactive: anyone can play around with the variables to get the answer they need from the data.
HTML5 boilerplate
The HTML5 boilerplate is a set of HTML/CSS/JS templates for building websites. It offers cross-browser compatibility, caching and compression rules, mobile browser optimizations, graceful degradation, and IE-specific classes.
Scripto
Scripto is an engine for crowdsourcing the transcription of content that can be integrated with a custom transcription GUI and existing CMS.
arts-humanities.net
arts-humanities.net aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities by providing information on projects creating and using digital content; tools and methods to answer research questions; a listing of expert centers and individual researchers; and a library documenting lessons learned through case students, briefing papers, and a bibliography.
RStudio
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It is available in both open source and consumer versions, and can run either on your desktop, or through a browser connected to RStudio Server. Features include syntax highlighting, code completion, smart indentation, and an interactive debugger.
Twitter allows users to send 140-character messages. There is a thriving digital humanities community of Twitter users. This tool is great for communicating and sharing ideas, micro-blogging, real-time communication. You can follow tweets about digital humanities https://twitter.com/hashtag/digitalhumanities.
My Other Office
My Other Office - Transcription Services in Toronto My Other Office is a Toronto-based transcription service specializing in medical transcription, legal transcription, virtual assistant services, and web design.
Annotator
Annotator is an open source JavaScript library that developers can include on their pages (along with jQuery) to allow users to annotate content. Annotations can be stored in AnnotateIt.
quicktime
The Macro-Etymological Analyzer
The Macro-Etymological Analyzer is a web app for text analysis that will look up every word of your text in the Etymological Wordnet, and generate statistics about the macro-etymology of your text, organized by language family. For instance, it can analyze a novel and tell you the proportions of words of Anglo-Saxon origin, or of Afroasiatic origin. First-generation and second-generation language ancestor data is included, and the output is highly granular, allowing the scholar to see the origins of individual words, and statistics about each ancestor language. This data can be useful as a particular type of topic modeling, since some macro-etymological data have have been correlated with particular genres, as well as the ages and sexes of their authors and/or speaking characters. For more details, read the introductory blog post and see these example experiments.
Tackk
A free service that makes publishing content on the web as easy as writing an email.
DICTION
Diction analyzes texts for language indicating certainty, activity, optimism, realism, and commonality.
IrfanView
An image viewer and converter with simple editing features; can also generate slideshows and save them as .exe files. Includes support for Photoshop filters.
iPhoto
iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. It has been included with every Macintosh personal computer since 2002, originally as part of the iLife suite of digital media management applications. iPhoto can import, organize, edit, print and share digital photos.
WordPress
WordPress is an easy-to-use web publishing platform originally designed around blogging that has now evolved with functionality as a robust content or learning management system, with many themes and plugins for extra functionality.
POP - Prototyping on Paper
POP allows paper based wire frames to be converted to a simulated mobile app.
Projects
Projects allows researchers to organise and manage all their research outputs in a safe, simple and structured way. It’s designed to help academics, at any stage of their career, keep track and stay on top of all their results. It’s a light, useful and slick application that integrates into a researcher’s existing workflow to help them work more efficiently and ensure they have more time for making discoveries.
ImageJ
ImageJ is a Java open source image processing program designed for scientific multidimensional images. It is highly extensible, with thousands of plugins and macros for performing a wide variety of tasks, and a strong, established user base. There are three major versions of ImageJ:
- ImageJ1 - The stable version, developed by Wayne Rasband at NIH since 1997
- ImageJ2 - Focuses on analysis of scientific multidimensional image data. Includes ImageJ1 with a compatibility layer
- Fiji - A distribution of ImageJ for the life sciences. It provides a large number of additional plugins to facilitate analysis of life sciences images, particularly microscopy images. Built on the ImageJ2 platform.
DOAJ
The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a full-text search engine for open access journals.
Adapter
Adapter is a free video converter that converts avi, saves flash .flv, crops video and more. It also works with audio and image files. converting wav to mp3 and transforming jpg files.
Cucumber
Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid - all rolled into one format.
Prezi
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them.
Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 provides a cloud-hosted version of the Office suite. Different packages include different combinations of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Microsoft Lync.
ABBYY FineReader
An (optical character recognition) engine for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs. Features:
- Recognition of Digital Camera and Mobile Phone Camera Images
- Comprehensive Language Support
- Complete Integration with Popular Office Applications
- PDF conversion, archiving and security
FotoFlexer
Web-based image editing with special effects and image manipulation features that can import content from PhotoBucket, Facebook, MySpace, Picasa, Flickr, Phanfare, or Smugmug. A free account is needed to save images. FotoFlexer also offers an Open API to provide a simple interface for external websites to use the editing features - no API keys, REST or SOAP.
Picnik
Picnik closed on April 19, 2013. Picnik was a simple web-based image editor that could import photos from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search, Google Plus, and also has upload capabilities. It was acquired by Google in 2010.
TILE (Text-Image Linking Environment)
The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts. It allows the user to import and export transcript lines and images of text, as well as mark up the image, and includes a semi-automated line recognizer.
Minitab
Minitab provides tools for statistical analysis and visualization. It includes tools for creating graphics, and working with variance, regression, reliability, sample size, time series, forecasting, equivalence tests, tables, simulations, and distributions.
Excel
Microsoft Excel is spreadsheet software with calculation, graphing tools, and pivot table options for analyzing data. A cloud-hosted version is available as part of Office 365.
Picasa Web Albums
Users can upload photos and organize them into albums, and they can search photos that have been posted in public albums and filter the results by license (any Creative Commons license, licenses that allow commercial use, licenses that allow remixing).
MicrOsiris
MicrOsiris is a statistical and data management package for Windows. This freeware has been derived from OSIRIS IV, a statistics and data management package developed at the University of Michigan. It can import up to 10,000 variables from SPSS, SAS, STATA, UNESCO IDAMS, and Excel. It is distributed as freeware.
Painter
Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application designed to simulate the appearance and behaviour of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is meant to be used with a graphics tablet or mouse. The software offers a range of traditional artists' tools and materials (watercolour, oil paint, pastels, air brush, felt pens, chalk, charcoal & coloured pencil) and non-traditional effects (Image Hose, pattern pens, F/X, distortion, etc). Corel offers an online webinar library, tutorials, and other learning tools through their website. Corel Painter includes the full set of features. Corel Painter Essentials is a less complex version designed for causal users with an emphasis on photo retouching. Painter Sketch Pad focuses on the early design phase of image creation and includes 13 drawing tools compared to Painter's nearly 900 brushes. It is designed to work with a drawing tablet. Corel also offer mobile versions of Painter for iPhone (Paint It! Now), iPad (Cinco for Painter, Paint It! Show) and Android (Painter Mobile)
Clipping Magic
Clipping Magic lets you easily edit out the background of photos. Mark up the foreground and background in the editor, use the scalpel tool for precision selections, then download the new image. You can upload and edit as many images as you like but you must have a paid subscription to download ($4 - $15 per month depending on the number of download credits needed). Officially supported file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF images using sRGB color space. CMYK displays the wrong colors in the editor but the resulting image is correct. Current max image resolution is 4 megapixels. The Clipping Magic website includes tutorials for each of their tools. Feature List:
- Web based graphical user Interface, with quick feedback on your edits.
- Smart Algorithm minimizes the amount of work you need to put in - you do not need to trace the entire outline of your image
- Pan and Zoom to any level necessary allows you to inspect details while quickly navigating your image.
- Undo / Redo
- Auto-Save
- Configurable Auto-Brush-Size: The brush size adapts dynamically to your zoom level so that you can easily zoom in to make detailed edits.
- Refine Edges gives you full control over smoothing, feathering and offset.
- Dedicated Hair Tool separates out hair from clean and distinct backgrounds.
- Color Levels - tune brightness, shadows and highlights, and the color temperature.
- Rotate / Straighten.
- Crop & Resize
- Shadows creator with both drop shadow and ellipse shadows.
- Background Color or transparent background options
- Configurable Defaults
- Bulk Clipping
- Share Your Results with a secure URL
Serendip-o-matic
Serendip-o-matic extracts keywords from your Zotero library or from text that you've pasted into the web interface, and finds related content in locations such as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Europeana, and Flickr Commons, including photographs, documents, maps and other primary sources.
Lexos
Lexos is an online tool that enables you to "scrub" (clean) your text(s), cut a text(s) into various size chunks, manage chunks and chunk sets, and choose from a suite of analysis tools for investigating those texts. Functionality includes building dendrograms, making graphs of rolling averages of word frequencies or ratios of words or letters, and playing with visualizations of word frequencies including word clouds and bubble visualizations. To facilitate subsequent text mining analyses beyond the scope of this site, users can also transpose and download their matrices of word counts or relative proportions as comma- or tab-separated files (.csv, .tsv). Lexos is part of the Lexomics Project (http://wheatoncollege.edu/lexomics/) and partially replaces the earlier Lexomics tools. See the Bamboo DiRT entry from Lexomics.
MindMup
A free browser-based brainstorming tool that lets you create visually interesting mind maps quickly and intuitively. Similar to other mind-mapping or brainstorming tools (ex. Bubbl.us and FreeMind), MindMup has lots of options for embedding,sharing, or saving maps. Maps can be saved to Google Drive or to MindMup. Includes extensions to allow users to collaborate on maps in real time.
EEBO-TCP
The Text Creation Partnership has double-keyed roughly 55,000 titles from ProQuest’s EEBO image product into fully-searchable, TEI-compliant SGML/XML texts. These texts contain rich metadata fields that indicate when the texts include features like alchemical language, bibliographic citations, and epistolary forms.
Bamboo Services Platform
The Bamboo Services platform, currently in development, provides a number of useful features for tool developers who want to make their tool available as a service, including authentication and authorization options and a result-caching service that allows users to start long-running automated analysis jobs and receive a notification when their data is ready.
Bamboo HUBzero Work Space
The HubZero Bamboo Work Space is an instance of HubZero enhanced with the combined functionality of the Bamboo Services Platform, Content Interoperability Hub, and Person Service built-in.
Statistical Lab
Statistical Lab is a graphical user interface designed to make statistical analysis easier to understand. This interactive tool will connect and display data frames, frequency tables, random numbers or matrixes. Statistical Lab uses R to run calculations, conduct analyses and perform multiple simulations and manipulations.
PhiloGL
PhiloGL is a framework for data visualization using WebGL, a library that extends Javascript to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics.
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit enables users to create interactive web-based visualizations; the demos page has some good examples along with the underlying code.
Project Quincy
Project Quincy allows users to trace the development of social networks and institutions over time and space using information about people, places and organizations. It is a Django application with a MySQL database that can be installed on a web server.
SPSS Statistics
The base SPSS Statistics package includes support for descriptive statistics, bivariate statistics, correlation, prediction for numerical outcomes, and prediction for identifying groups.
SAS Analytics
SAS Analytics is an environment for predictive and descriptive modeling, data mining, text analytics, forecasting, optimization, simulation, experimental design, and other statistical functions.
Sample size calculator
The Sample Size Calculator is simple online tool for calculating sample size according to different variables.
Blender
From the website: Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.
VassarStats
A website that explains statistical concepts and provides a web-based environment for performing those calculations. Tools include a graph maker, distribution generators, t-tests and procedures, and correlation and regression tests. All tools have been written in Javascript and run within the browser.
RSiena
RSiena is a package for the R language that enables the statistical analysis of network data, including longitudinal network data, longitudinal data of networks and behavior, and cross-sectional network data. It provides the same functionality available in SIENA (Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis), Windows software which is no longer maintained.
Lynks - Create Explore Share
Lynks provides an easy to use, in-browser tool that helps you to create your own networks. Lynks is an initiative by Centre for Innovation, part of Leiden University (Campus The Hague). The software has been developed in 2014 in co-creation, with expertise from Dr. Eelke Heemskerk from University of Amsterdam. The software development has been supported by the financial contributions from the European Union Fund for Regional Development (EFRO) and the Municipality of The Hague.
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Internet Explorer > 8
Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE > 8
Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT)
CAT is an environment for group coding and analyzing data sets, including computing inter-rater reliability. Users can create a free account, or download the ASP.NET tool suite to run independently.
StatCrunch
StatCrunch is web-based statistical analysis and data-sharing software.
HUBzero
HUBzero is a web publication platform and content management system designed to facilitate collaboration on research and learning. In addition to standard blog and discussion features, HUBzero's most distinctive traits are a built-in environment that can run interactive software that scholars have developed within the browser, a tool development area, and the ability to share data and documents privately between members of the hub.
METS Page Turner
This is a frames-based page turner servlet with search functionality using XPATH.
AntWordProfiler
AntWordProfiler is free software for analyzing word frequency.
Collex
"Collex allows users to collect, annotate, and tag online objects and to repurpose them in illustrated, interlinked essays or exhibits."
Text 2 Mind Map
Text 2 Mind Map is a web-based tool for mind mapping. Very basic interface and functionality. Requires users to structure information in a linear text outline, which it returns as a diagram.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging/microblogging platform with a focus on data sharing between individual blogs. Users can create and disseminate data in a visual or HTML editor, using standard Tumblr posting formats: text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, and video. Built-in customization tools allow users to manipulate the appearance of their blog with little knowledge of web development. Tumblr also provides a CSS/HTML customization panel for more advanced users, including theme documentation and the ability to upload/alter theme asset files (e.g., CSS, JS).
Posterous Spaces
NOTE: this platform is closing down on April 30, 2013 and will no longer be available. Posterous Spaces is an online sharing platform where users can publish content via a web interface, by email, or by using a mobile app.
TypePad
TypePad is a commercial, fully hosted blogging platform. Provides library of customizable blog designs.
pachyderm
Pachyderm is a web-based rich-media interactive presentation authoring and publishing system that meets most accessibility requirements. It works off of an extensible template system. Pachyderm allows users to upload multimedia (images, audio, video) and publish them online using pre-defined templates or download them for use on their own website, or on a CD or DVD. Version 3 (released June 2014) now also supports iOS and other non-Flash devices using HTML5, and appears to be a major upgrade. Requires Apache HTTP or Tomcat web server installation (WAMP or MAMP is fine).
PachyForge is a community owned and operated Web site designed to improve communications and promote growth within the Pachyderm open source community. The site is intended serve both Pachyderm developers and end-users in sharing ideas and supporting one another. [from the site]. http://www.pachyforge.org/EDITOR's NOTE: Unfortunately, this site seems to have fallen behind, and does not cover the newest release, Version 3. However, it may contain useful links, documentation, and other resources.
Adobe Flash
Authoring environment for interactive content on desktops, televisions, smartphones and tablets
bubbl.us
bubbl.us is a web-based mind mapping tool, useful for organizing ideas, brainstorming, analyzing relationships, and visualizing data. Simple interface, with basic and easily understood functionality. Free to try without creating an account. Also available as an iOS application for iPad.
- Free account allows creation of three mind maps, with minimal customization (e.g., text size and formatting, bubble color and hierarchy)
- Expanded functionality, export options, and unlimited map creation with upgraded accounts
- Monthly or annual subscription options for individual account upgrade, including 30-day free trial
- Group licensing option offered for collaborative use by teams, including custom branding
- Eligible teams may apply for educational discount by emailing [email protected]
Exploratree
Exploratree is a web-based library and editing application for "interactive thinking guides," which are templates useful for mind mapping, brainstorming, planning, and visualization. Originally developed for use in the classroom, to help students refine and focus their ideas, as well as manage plans to further their investigation. Thinking guides can be edited, printed, and downloaded directly from the browser.
Madison Digital Image Database (MDID)
MDID is software for teaching and learning with digital images, with tools for discovering, aggregating, and presenting digital media in a variety of learning spaces.
Greenstone
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It also allows users to publish to the internet or CD-ROM. Software interface and documentation available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Kazakh.
Gallery
Gallery is an open source web-based photo album organizer that enables the integration of albums into websites. The newest edition includes video and audio sharing.
Community Contributed Collection (CoCoCo)
CoCoCo is an application for collecting, cataloging, and assessing the quality of user-submitted text or uploaded-file contributions.
Philomine
Philomine is an extension to the Philologic text retrieval engine that supports a variety of machine learning, text mining, and document clustering tasks.
Zoho
Zoho provides a drag-and-drop interface for creating database-driven applications, such as forms.
Superfastmatch
Superfastmatch is designed to find exact duplicates of text strings between documents.
UMapper
UMapper allows users to create embeddable, interactive Flash maps and geo-games from within their browser. There is a free option available with limited customization, and a more flexible paid option; see the feature comparison.
OpenZoom
The OpenZoom SDK is a free and open source toolkit for Flash for developing Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) for high-resolution images.
Cytoscape
Cytoscape is a platform for complex network analysis, visualization, and annotation.
Omeka.net
Omeka.net provides a web-publishing platform to curate collections and create exhibitions of digitized content. Omeka.net has grown out of the Omeka project. Omeka.net provides some of the same functionality as Omeka, but does not require the user to provide hosting or to maintain their installation in any way. However, use of Omeka.net limits customization, and hosting more than 500MB of content requires a paid account. Objects in the collection can be cataloged with Dublin core metadata fields and georeferenced for display on a map. Omeka.net includes several plugins, including COinS (which makes objects in Omeka accessible to citations management software, like Zotero), HTML5 Media (to play audio and video), and Library of Congress Suggest (which will auto-populate fields with LoC authority and subject headings).
WordPress.com
Wordpress.com provides free ad-supported hosting for basic WordPress sites, with paid options for premium features (custom domain, extra storage, custom design, no ads, etc.)
Graphviz
Graphviz is open source software for graph visualization, representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. The package includes web and interactive graphical interfaces, and auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings.
Heritrix
Heritrix is web crawler used by the Internet Archive, which provides a web-based user interface after initial configuration on a Linux machine. Also used by the Library of Congress, Heritrix captures metadata in the Web ARChive (WARC) format.
SiteSucker
SiteSucker is OSX and iOS software that can download an entire website, including images and videos.
HTTrack
HTTrack provides an easy-to-use interface for downloading websites-- including HTML, images, and other files-- or update a copy of a previously-downloaded site.
Afloat
Afloat is a utility that adds new window management functionality to OSX, including keeping a window on top, or turning a window into an overlay on the screen. This can be particularly useful in full-screen view (e.g. during a presentation) when you want to keep another small window, such as a Twitter client, visible somewhere on the screen.
Confluence
Confluence is enterprise wiki software, available either for installation on a local server or via cloud hosting. Open source projects can request a free license. Confluence integrates with other Atlassian products like JIRA.
JIRA
JIRA is a project management and issue tracking solution that can integrate with other Atlassian products like the Confluence wiki. JIRA is available either for installation on a local server or via cloud hosting. Open source projects can request a free license. JIRA may used as a stand alone issue tracker and is best used with multi participant projects, to ensure that delegated tasks get completed and issues resolved. It can also be used as a support tool to track service delivery issues and ensure their visibility among the support group
Drupal
Drupal is an extremely flexible general content management system with numerous plugins that provide scholar-oriented functionality.
Juxta
Juxta is an open-source cross-platform desktop tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. The software allows you to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or remove witness texts, to switch the base text at will, and to annotate Juxta-revealed comparisons and save the results. New in version 1.6.5 is the ability to upload your comparison sets to a free online workspace called Juxta Commons where you can analyze your data privately or choose to share visualizations of your work with anyone on the web. Juxta presents several kinds of analytic visualizations. The most basic collation offers a split frame comparison of a base text with a witness text, along with a display of the digital images from which the base text is derived. Additionally, Juxta has several visualizations for the collation of multiple witnesses. Juxta can display a heat map of the textual variants that allows you to locate—at the level of any textual unit—all witness variations from the base text. You can also view the collation as a histogram, which displays the density of all variation from the base text and serves as a useful finding aid for variants in long documents. Finally, Juxta can output a lemmatized schedule (in HTML format) of the textual variants in any set of comparisons.
Quirkos
Text analysis software aimed at beginners to qualitative research, and using live visualizations as the interface. Quirkos supports standard code-and-retrieve operations, searches and queries on the data, and can visualize connections between topics and themes. Find more information at http://www.quirkos.com/qualitative-data-analysis-software.html
LiveJournal
LiveJournal is a community publishing platform, with features characteristic of both blogging and social networking platforms. The site is longstanding, originally established in 1999 as a blogging platform and online community built around personal journals. Today comprises more than 50 million journals, with topical focuses such as politics, entertainment, fashion, literature, and design.
MindJet MindManager
MindJet MindManager is visual brainstorming software for Windows.
Flashcard Machine
Flashcard Machine is a web interface with a corresponding iOS app for creating and studying flashcards.
Dedoose
Dedoose is a cross-platform app for analyzing text, video, and spreadsheet data (analyzing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research). Our intuitive software interface allows users or teams to effectively analyze qualitative and mixed methods research data from various research approaches when conducting surveys and interviews in market research, psychology research, social science research, ethnographic research, anthropology research and much more from anywhere in the world, simultaneously, always protected by our industry leading security for about $10 per month (only for months you login). You can even import from a MAXQDA, NVivo, SurveyMonkey, or Atlas.ti, or other projects! Free for one month with nothing to install and setup is instant!
FromThePage
FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It's easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search.
ProProfs Form Maker
ProProfs Form Maker is the easiest way to create online forms. With no complicated software to download or learn, you can create unlimited online forms and start collecting meaningful data from the word go. A simple drag and drop interface, coupled with powerful features such as detailed reports, advanced security, instant notifications and mobile support makes creating online forms easy, fast and fun.
LIWC
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count is a text analysis software program that calculates the degree to which people use different categories of words across a wide array of texts.
Evernote
Evernote is note-taking software in the cloud, with options for private and shared notebooks. Users can take text notes, and upload files to attach them to notes. Evernote has built-in OCR for images with printed or handwritten text. A premium account allows access to notebooks offline, as well as more storage and embedded PDF search.
ANTHROPAC
ANTHROPAC is a menu-driven DOS program for collecting and analyzing data on cultural domains. The program assists with the collection and analysis of structured qualitative and quantitative data, and provides analytical and multivariate tools.
ScholarPress Researcher
The ScholarPress Researcher WordPress plugin displays a user's Zotero library within WordPress.
BuddyPress Courseware
BuddyPress Courseware is no longer supported according to their website: http://buddypress.coursewa.re/.
Leximancer
Leximancer is text analysis software that can create topic and concept based network visualizations and includes a sentiment analyzer.
Netvibes
Netvibes offers a free personal web dashboard for following feeds, friends and using the provided apps. A premium account includes functionality for analytics, tagging, curation, alerts, sentiment analysis, and search.
ScholarPress Workshop
ScholarPress Workshop is a WordPress plugin for managing workshops.
Sharepoint
Microsoft Sharepoint is an environment for sharing documents with collaborators, using granular permissions. Sharepoint can tightly integrated with Microsoft Office (e.g. Office documents can be saved directly to Sharepoint, some Sharepoint installations allow web-based editing using the cloud-hosted Office 365. Sharepoint is commonly used to host collaborative workspaces, data management system, wikis and blogs. Features:
- Extensive integration with Microsoft Office System programs
- Object versioning system
- Browser-based configuration
- Custom site templates
paint.net
From the website: Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Global Translator
Global Translator automatically translates WordPress sites into a variety of user-chosen languages, using one of four translation engines (Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations).
Sophie
Sophie is an electronic tool for authoring, collaborating, reading, and publishing rich media documents in networked environments. Built in Java it runs on a variety of platforms. It does not support either the epub or mobi formats instead using its own internal format. Development of the project seems to have stalled
EPrints.org
A digital repository software package that may be used to accept, manage and publish digital objects. It is widely used in academia as a system to manage academic research papers, electronic theses and other distinct digital resources. EPrints offers an extensible plug-in architecture, enabling data processing activities to be tailored to the requirements of the institution. Features:
- LOAI-PMH support
- Deposit interface for mediated or self-deposit
- PRONOM integration
- PLANETS PLATO integration (forthcoming)
- Dublin Core, EP3-XML, METS, MODS metadata format support
- Extensible plug-in architecture
FigShare
Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models. Users of the site maintain full control over the management of their research whilst benefiting from global access, version control and secure backups in the cloud. By opening up the peer review process, researchers can easily publish null results, avoiding the file drawer effect and helping to make scientific research more efficient. Figshare uses creative commons licensing to allow frictionless sharing of research data whilst allowing users to maintain their ownership.
Mapstraction
Mapstraction is a Javascript library. It provides developers with a single interface for a wide variety of Javascript map APIs including Leaflet, Google, Bing, OpenLayers and ESRI's ArcGIS. A key benefit is that once a developer has loaded Mapstraction, s/he can to switch from one map API to another quickly and easily - often only needing to change a few lines of code. Mapstraction displays points, lines, polygons and markers on the maps, and also allows developers to add base maps and overlays.
SearchTeam
SearchTeam is a collaborative search engine that allows individuals and groups to curate search results in a public or shared SearchSpace.
ScraperWiki
ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that makes the process of data scraping simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor. In the free version, the code and data are shared with the world. Because it's a wiki, other programmers can contribute to and improve the code.
iAnnotate
Full-featured app for reading, annotating, organizing, and sending PDFs. Offers ability to annotate PDFs with pen, highlighter, audio recordings, and photos. For iPad or Android tablet.
Smallpdf- Online PDF Tools
Smallpdf is a free online tool to compress, merge, split and convert PDF documents. It is simple to use and free to use. It can be useful to compress research papers, merge several documents together or extract graphs and images from PDF files.
PDFMiner
PDFMiner is a Python tool for extracting information from PDFs (not only text, but also information about fonts, encoding, and layout.)
Cisdem PDFConverterOCR for Mac
A tool to convert Normal/Scanned PDF and Image to Word, Excel, PPT, Keynote, Pages, Text, etc. on Mac.
Features:
- Convert PDF to Word (.doc), Excel (.xlsx), and More Common Office Format Files
- Convert PDF to Pages and Keynote
- Convert PDF to Graphics Files
- Convert Scanned PDF with Accurate OCR
- Convert Multilingual PDF Files
- Support Password-Restricted PDF Files
- Extract Portions of Text, Image or Table for Reconstruction of Document
Palladio
A platform for visualizing and analysing networks of historical data. Palladio is web-based tool that allows a user to upload structured data, graphically establish context within Palladio and then choose from a variety of innovative spatial, temporal and network visualisations to analyse and present research findings.
Hermetic Word Frequency Counter Advanced Version
This software scans one or many Word DOCX, text and text-like files (e.g. HTML and XML files) and counts the number of occurrences of the different words or phrases. There is no limit on the size of an input text file. The words/phrases which are found can be displayed alphabetically or by frequency. The program can be told to allow or disallow words with numerals, hyphens, apostrophes, underscores or colons, to ignore words which are short or which occur infrequently, and to ignore words (e.g., common words such as 'the', a.k.a. stop words) contained in a specified file. It can also count only words or phrases in a specified list (optionally with pattern-matching). Results can be exported to Excel for further processing. The program works with text in most European languages, and supports the use of regular expressions for specifying words/phrases to count.
Hermetic Word Frequency Counter
This software scans a Word DOCX file or a text file (including HTML and XML files) with text encoded via ANSI or UTF-8 and counts the frequencies of different words. The words which are found and displayed can be ordered alphabetically or by frequency. Characters which can appear in words can be specified, so the program can be told to allow or disallow words with numerals, hyphens, apostrophes, underscores or colons, to ignore words which are short or which occur infrequently, to treat upper/lower case as significant or not, and to ignore words (e.g., common words such as 'this', a.k.a. stop words) contained in a specified file. This software may be used with text in most European languages. The language of the text is detected automatically and (if supported) the corresponding stop words file is optionally loaded. Results can be exported to Excel for further processing. There is also an Advanced Version with greater functionality.
Data for Research (DFR)
After creating a free account, users can submit requests for mining and analyzing JSTOR content. By submitting a query, a user will receive a random sample of 1,000 of JSTOR's 4.6 million documents; more documents can be received by contacting JSTOR directly. Users can choose to receive the following results:
- Citations Only (all requests come with citations by default)
- Word Counts
- Bigrams
- Trigrams
- Quadgrams
- Key Terms
- References
NB
NB is designed for faculty and students to collaboratively annotate PDFs in an online environment. The faculty member can upload course material (e.g. readings), and make it available to their students. Students can then create public and private annotations on those PDFs. NB includes a feature for faculty and (optionally) students to download the resulting fully-annotated PDFs.
HT-Bookworm
Bookworm is a tool that visualizes language usage trends in repositories of digitized texts in a simple and powerful way. It is a tool for culturomic exploration through the observation of chronological trends for words and phrases in large digitized collections of textual documents with metadata facets. The world's great research libraries have, over time, carefully assembled a rich body of metadata pertaining to the books in their collections. Since the HTRC has access to volume-level metadata as well as volume-level content, we have constructed a Bookworm of the HathiTrust Non-Google-digitized public domain (NGPD) corpus. We felt that setting up Bookworm with a HathiTrust corpus would provides scholarly researchers with the means of exploring trends. This tool enables scholars to discover new textual use patterns across the entire corpus. In the future, we plan to ingest the entire HathiTrust corpus and continue to identify appropriate metadata to use for the faceted browsing. This tool will be particularly useful to scholars interested in books that are still under copyright - which is the case for most books published after 1923. Although these books will not be available for reading or downloading online, working with individual words and phrases and tracking their occurrences through time will be useful to academic researchers, especially historians, sociologists and literary scholars. John Unsworth has noted that a fundamental goal of the humanities is appreciation: "by paying attention to an object of interest, we can explore it, find new dimensions within it, notice things about it that have never been noticed before, and increase its value" (2004). Shifting from traditional close reading to a large-scale view of text presents a profound discomfort for humanities scholars, due to the difficulty in retaining the same sensitivity to what is actually contained in the works being studied. HTRC-Bookworm will function as a link between quantitative analysis (distant reading) and close reading. According to Frederick Gibbs and Daniel Cohen, "any robust digital research methodology must allow the scholar to move easily between distant and close reading, between the bird's eye view and the ground level of the texts themselves" (2011). This is what HTRC-Bookworm intends to accomplish (within the limitations of applicable copyright laws.) Current limitations and future improvements: The current instantiation (the alpha version) of the HTRC-Bookworm is set up to work with only 250,000 out-of-copyright volumes from the HathiTrust NGPD corpus. Overall the HathiTrust has more than 11,000,000 volumes in all their corpus, consisting of 420 billion pages. As a demonstration we have selected some metadata for use with this smaller corpus, but we are open to feedback on improvements to this metadata. Our plan is to ingest the larger HathiTrust corpus and to allow facets to be selected based on HTRC worksets.
SigmaJS
Tableau Public
PROS Tableau Public is a free service that lets anyone publish interactive data to the web. Once on the web, anyone can interact with the data, download it, or create their own visualizations of it. No programming skills are required. No plug-ins are required. You just need a browser with JavaScript enabled. Stylish, slick and user-friendly interface that allows the user to easily convert time and spatial datasets from a range of files, xlsx, csv etc in order to create colourful, interactive data visualisations very quickly. Good for people, for example journalists, students, teachers, researchers, who have no coding skills and want to convert large datasets to interactive, graphical data. CONS Not open source. Also the data you enter into Tableau Public and any visualisations you create are stored on Tableau's public cloud, and are accessible to everyone - so not suitable for converting private or sensitive datasets. Originally was designed for Windows, but now works with Mac, however only with OS 10.8 or later versions.
Noteflight
Noteflight is a flash-based web product for the creating and sharing of musical text online. As well as the musical text processor, which is much like full software programs such as Sibelius and Finale, Noteflight has a dynamic social element where you can share original compositions with others and invite them to suggest or edit the work. It is ideal for online collaboration in music and for teaching purposes. A brief review of Noteflight, carried out as part of the MA DAH course at UCC, can be found at a href=https://fuaimabu.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/a-personal-review-of-noteflight/
Catmandu
Importing, transforming, storing and indexing data should be easy. Catmandu provides a suite of Perl modules to ease the import, storage, retrieval, export and transformation of metadata records. Combine Catmandu modules with web application frameworks such as PSGI/Plack, document stores such as MongoDB and full text indexes such as Solr to create a rapid development environment for digital library services such as institutional repositories and search engines. In the http://librecat.org/ project it is our goal to provide an open source set of programming components to build up digital libraries services suited to your local needs. Read an in depth introduction into Catmandu programming at https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu/wiki/Introduction.
MuseScore
Free and open source music notation program. From website: MuseScore runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and is available in over 40 different languages. - Create sheet music with WYSIWYG editor - Listen to your score with computer playback - Share & print your score - Work the way you like - Get help MuseScore can import and export MIDI and MusicXML files, and it can also import from Capella and several other programs. MuseScore can export to PDF, PNG, and other graphic formats, to WAV and other audio formats, or to LilyPond for an alternative layout and print option. MuseScore can upload scores directly to the score sharing site musescore.com. Program support is provided on musescore.org.
VennMaker
VennMaker provides an interactive platform for compiling, generating, visualising and analysing relationship data.
Balsamiq Mockups
Balsamiq Mockups is a simple, flexible, and collaborative software for building wireframes for websites, apps, and other digital media. Users may purchase a desktop license or pay a monthly subscription fee for the web app. Free desktop software is available for classroom use.
STACKS
STACK is an extensible social media research toolkit designed to collect, process, and store data from online social networks. The toolkit is an ongoing project via the Syracuse University iSchool, and currently supports the Twitter Streaming API. Collecting from Facebook public pages and Twitter search API are under development. The toolkit architecture is modular and supports extending. Basic Linux / Mac command line skills needed. To learn more: https://github.com/bitslabsyr/stack
Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a social platform that allows academics to share research papers, gray literature, reviews and other scholarly materials. The site provides user statistics on the number and geographic origin of profile and document views. Academic affiliation is displayed in a tree-like format, grouped by universities and departments.
Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder. Basic features, as listed on their website, include:
- Record live audio.
- Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
Morphadorner
MorphAdorner is a Java command-line program which acts as a pipeline manager for processes performing morphological adornment of words in a text. Currently MorphAdorner provides methods for adorning text with standard spellings, parts of speech and lemmata. MorphAdorner also provides facilities for tokenizing text, recognizing sentence boundaries, and extracting names and places.
TokenX
TokenX is a web-based environment for visualizing, analyzing and playing with texts. Options include word clouds, highlighting words, keywords in context, replacing words with bocks, highlighting punctuation and non-words, counting words in context and decontextualized, and substituting words. A number of sample files are provided, or users can point TokenX to any XML file online.
Scrivener
Scrivener is software for writing that includes virtual index cards, outlining, version control, import/export options, and scriptwriting features, and provides a management system for notes and documents plus support for document metadata. It allows the creation of documents from sub documents, ebook (epub and Kindle/mobi) and TeX and LaTeX export as well as ODF, PDF and Microsoft Word exports. A Linux version is in beta, and an iOS version is reportedly under development
OmniFocus
OmniFocus is task management software that can sync between Macs and iOS devices.
Scratch
Scratch is a programming language, designed for children, for creating interactive stories, animations, games, music and art and publishing them online.
Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. It allows users to generate bibliographies, find and import papers of interest, access your papers from anywhere online, and collaborate with other researchers online. Mendeley has also developed an iOS app that allows users to sync across devices and access their libraries from wherever they are.
Eris Solver - Free Crowdsolver for Complex Problems
Eris Solver is a free crowd-solver for complex problems. It implements an innovative way to solve complex problems by adapting brainstorming technique to a Problem Tree Analysis and by channelling Collective Intelligence. When simple problem may require a unique solution to be solved, Complex problems behave differently and multiple solutions are sometimes necessary to solve them. On the contrary to simple problem that may not need further deepening, a complex problem may be broken up in multiple small ones that help us understand the big picture. Every branch of the issue tree represent a different aspect of the problem, problems can be decomposed this way until reaching the bottom line where solutions to the ultimate sub-issues are added. Eris Solver uses an interdisciplinary approach and users are allocated into six major areas of expertise
RoSE
Hypothes.is
import.io
import.io is a free web-based platform that puts the power of the machine readable web in user's hands. Using their tools users can create an API or crawl an entire website in a fraction of the time of traditional methods, no coding required. Their highly efficient and scalable platform allows users to process 1,000s of queries at once and get real-time data in any format you choose. They also offer an easy to use client library to make exporting, integrating and using data as simple as extracting it. import.io also offers a bespoke, affordable data solution for organizations who want them to provide live data directly. Import Data brings companies live data direct from the source, giving them actionable information in real-time. Live data allows a company to react more quickly and efficiently to situations saving time and money.
Oral History Metadata Syncronizer
OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) inexpensively and efficiently enhances access to oral history by providing users with word-level search capability and a time-correlated transcript or indexed interview connecting the textual search term to the corresponding moment in the recorded interview online. OHMS is an open source, web-based application designed to improve the user experience you provide for oral history, no matter what CMS or repository you use. There are 2 main components of the OHMS system OHMS Application: The OHMS application is where the work is done. This is the back-end, web-based application where interviews are imported, and metadata is created. In the OHMS application transcripts are time-coded and/or interviews are indexed. Upon completion, the interview record (including the synchronized transcript and/or time-coded index) are exported as an XML file. When located on a web server, the OHMS XML file is what interfaces with your content management system through the OHMS Viewer. OHMS Viewer: The OHMS viewer is the user interface of ohms. When an interview is called by the repository, the OHMS viewer loads, calling select interview level metadata and the intra interview level metadata created in the OHMS Application from the corresponding xml file.
OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle is a comprehensive diagramming and drawing application. Drag and drop to create wireframes, flow charts, network diagrams, UI mockups, family trees, office layouts, etc.. Upgrading to OmniGraffle Pro adds Visio support, shared layers, presentation mode, object-geometry controls, AppleScript and Actions support and more.
Commentpress
Commentpress is a theme and plugin for WordPress that enables granular public commenting on texts.
Vida.io
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Tesseract
Combined with the Leptonica Image Processing Library Tesseract can read a wide variety of image formats and convert them to text in over 40 languages. This code is a raw OCR engine. It has no output formatting and no UI. It can detect fixed pitch vs proportional text. Nevertheless in 1995 this engine was in the top 3 in terms of character accuracy, and it compiles and runs on both Linux and Windows. Training code is included in the open source release. The core developer on the project is Ray Smith (theraysmith). Thomas Breuel (tmbdev) and Ilya Mezhirov (mezhirov) work on the OCRopus project, for which Tesseract is one of the pluggable OCR engines; OCRopus also provides layout analysis and statistical language modeling. Most of the work on Tesseract is sponsored by Google.
CollateX
CollateX is a Java software for collating textual sources, for example, to produce a critical apparatus. As of January 2012 the project was at an early stage of development and lacked thorough documentation.
BITEXT
Bitext provides multilingual semantic technologies in the field of Text Analyics via API with services like Entity Extraction, Concept Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, and Text Categorisation.
JGAAP (java graphical authorship attribution program)
JGAAP is software designed for textual analysis, text categorization, and authorship attribution
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MALLET package for R
This package allows users to train topic models in MALLET and load results directly into R.
Text Analysis Markup System (TAMS) Analyzer
TAMS Analyzer is a program that works with TAMS to let you assign ethnographic codes to passages of a text just by selecting the relevant text and double clicking the name of the code on a list. It then allows you to extract, analyze, and save coded information.
Textal
A free iOS app for text analysis. Textal allows you to analyze documents, tweet streams, and webpages. Create clickable text clouds based on the source data that you choose. It comes pre-loaded with a large number of public domain texts. Text clouds are easily shareable via various Twitter and email.
TextSTAT- Simple Text Analysis Tool
"TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads plain text files (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files. This version includes a web-spider which reads as many pages as you want from a particular website and puts them in a TextSTAT-corpus. The new news-reader, too, puts news messages in a TextSTAT-readable corpus file. TextSTAT reads MS Word and OpenOffice files. No conversion needed, just add the files to your corpus... In TextSTAT you can use regular expression which provides you with powerful search possibilities. The programme is multilingual. Because it uses Unicode internally, TextSTAT can cope with many different languages and file encodings. "
Creately
Creately is a web based diagramming tool with real-time collaboration to work together on diagrams. If you're not comfortable storing data on the cloud you can use the desktop version. It lets you create workflows, mind maps, concept maps, business process models, wire-frames, org charts and many more diagram types useful in research projects.
GAMS
Cirilo is an application developed for content preservation and data curation in FEDORA-based repository systems. Content preservation and data curation include object creation and management, versioning, normalization and standards, and the choice of data formats. The client offers functionalities which are especially prone to be used as tools for mass operations on FEDORA objects, such as ingest or replacement processes. Cirilo uses a collection of predefined content models, which can be used without further adjustments for standard workflow scenarios like the management of collections of TEI objects. It encapsulates functions for the resolvement of place names or ontology concepts, thus semantically enriching resources in the digital archive. Various dissemination options can also be assigned with the client. Cirilo is a contribution to the DARIAH-EU task “Reference Software Packages. The source code of the client can be found at https://github.com/acdh/cirilo, the documentation is available at http://gams.uni-graz.at/doku. An „archive-in-a-box“-installation package (Client including a FEDORA 3.5 instance) for Debian-based Linux-distributions can be downloaded from http://gams.uni-graz.at/download/cirilo-installer-2.4.tar.gz
Editors' Notes
Editors' Notes is an open-source, web-based tool for recording, organizing, preserving, and opening access to research notes, built with the needs of documentary editing projects, archives, and library special collections in mind.
Projects that work closely with documents—researching, contextualizing, and ordering them—invariably produce massive amounts of thorough research notes which are too often locked away in filing cabinets or the minds of editors and curators, never to be seen by anyone. The Editors' Notes project is a collaboration between the editors of the Stanton-Anthony Papers, the Emma Goldman Papers, the Margaret Sanger Papers, and the Labadie Collection which aims to preserve those research notes in a way that makes them useful to future scholars and interested minds.Research teams can use Editors' Notes to manage their research and note-taking. Project administrators can assign research tasks to other team members, and they can control who has permission to edit their project's notes. Notes can be organized around documentary sources or thematically around topics (or both). Users can browse by topic, search full text, and filter using bibliographic metadata. Documents can be annotated with bibliographic metadata, topic keywords, and textual notations. Researchers can also upload scanned images of documents into the zoomable interface. Researchers can annotate specific passages in document transcripts. Annotations, like other notes, can include bibliographic metadata and topic keywords and are fully searchable. In addition to creating annotated transcripts, researchers can upload scanned images of documents, which can be viewed in a zoomable interface. New accounts are by invitation only. Request an invitation. Editors' Notes is currently in limited beta release (Nov 10/14)
Heurist Data Manager / Visualiser
HEURIST is a database management system designed specifically for Humanities data. Any confident researcher can design, create, manage, analyse and publish their own richly-structured database(s) through a simple web interface, without programmers or consultants. They can get started with the free online service hosted by the University of Sydney Data Centre to build a new database in minutes and a complete application in hours. Databases can be designed and built incrementally, as existing data are not affected by changes in structure. Databases can easily be migrated later to a personal or institutional server. Since the data are stored in a standard MySQL database with a fixed and well-documented structure, the data can be accessed directly via SQL from most programming languages independently of Heurist. Heurist is applicable in many domains including History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Cultural Research, Linguistics, Media Studies etc. It handles everything from text, tags and categories, through networks of rich relationships and offset annotations, to images, video, spatial data and dating (including non-western systems and dating uncertainty). Sophisticated searches (including faceted and rule-based) can be saved, organised and rendered as layered interactive maps, timelines, network visualisations, crosstabulations, lists, custom reports, XML and XSLT transforms, all of which can easily be printed or embedded (live) in a website - Heurist provides the html code required to embed results in a web page or CMS. A new version (4.0) is due in second quarter 2015, which will deliver a user-customisable interface of widgets, along with better mapping and visualisation.
GeoNames
A global geographical database that may be used to identify and tag all references to location. The database contains over 8 million entries, each of which possesses a geographic name (in various languages), latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and postal codes and information on unique features. Features:
- Built upon web service, enabling transparent look-up and use of content through third-party tools and sites
- Browse by geographic location, country name, size of geographic region and other categories.
- Full text search support
- Extensible, enabling users to expand existing information or contribute new content
- Support for the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) co-ordinate system
TimeRime
TimeRime is a web-based tool allowing people to create, view, and compare interactive timelines.
- TimeRime features vary by account type.
- Free Account
- No cost to use. Create unlimited timelines, with a maximum of 100 items per timeline. Able to insert embedded media (e.g., YouTube, Google Maps), including MP3 audio and videos from YouTube. 50 MB storage. Integrate timeline in blog or other website via embed code. No control over timeline design.
- Premium Account
- Costs $49/year. Create unlimited timelines, with a maximum of 400 items per timeline. Able to insert embedded media, including MP3 audio and videos from multiple sources, and in multiple file formats. 200 MB storage. Integrate timeline in blog or other website via embed code. Control over timeline design.
Open Conference Systems
Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Web publishing tool that can create a complete Web presence for scholarly conferences. It is a highly flexible management and publishing system that can be downloaded for free and installed on a local Web server. It has been designed to reduce the time and energy devoted to the clerical and managerial tasks associated with managing a conference, while improving the record-keeping and efficiency of editorial processes. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of conference publishing through a number of innovation, from making policies more transparent to improving indexing. Features:
- create a conference Web site
- Manage conferences that occur more than once (e.g., yearly)
- compose and send a call for papers
- electronically accept paper and abstract submissions
- allow paper submitters to edit their work
- Conduct peer reviews
- post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format
- Schedule a Conference
- post the original data sets
- register participants, including accepting payments
- integrate post-conference online discussions
- utilize an e-mail template system
- support multiple languages with localization files
- Take advantage of more customizable, scalable and secure code
- PHP >= 4.2.x (including PHP 5.x); Microsoft IIS requires PHP 5.x
- MySQL >= 3.23.23 (including MySQL 4.x) or PostgreSQL >= 7.1 (including PostgreSQL 8.x)
- Apache >= 1.3.2x or >= 2.0.4x or Microsoft IIS 6
- Operating system: Any OS that supports the above software, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows
OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is a digital notebook that allows you to gather notes and information in a central environment, and search across your shared notebooks to better manage information and work with others. OneNote used to be available as paid software, but is now free across platforms.
Sci2 Tool
The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool is a modular toolset supporting temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels. Users of the tool can:
- Access science datasets online or load their own
- Perform different types of analysis with the most effective algorithms available
- Use different visualizations to interactively explore and understand specific datasets
- Share datasets and algorithms across scientific boundaries
Citavi
Citavi's core features are reference management, knowledge organization, and task planning. Reference management
- Search in thousands of databases and library catalogs from within Citavi
- Organize references
- Annotate and automatically rename PDF files
- Batch import PDF files and import their metadata automatically
- Find fulltext to references
- Collaborate with others on a local network (no need to have your data in the cloud)
- Import from other reference management programs and formats, including RIS and BibTeX
- Import ISBNs, DOIs and PubMed-IDs on web pages with a click
- Import web pages with a click
- Transform web pages into PDF files to save their content
- Work seamlessly with Word (versions from 2003)
- Send references to Open Office and LibreOffice Writer and any program that can process files in RTF (i.e. Scrivener)
- Use with LaTeX editors
- Create subject bibliographies with a click
- Publish in all common citation styles. Styles for journals can be for free
- Integrated citation style editor
- Advanced style finder
- Integrated quick help
- Interface and quick help in seven languages (English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish)
- Import text excerpts and images from documents as quotations and organize them together with summaries, comments and own ideas imported as "thoughts"
- Quotations, summaries, comments and thoughts can be outlined directly in Citavi to reflect the structure in chapters of the publication prior to the actual writing, thus permitting to separate the construction of the argumentative structure from the actual writing process
- Schedule tasks related to titles (order, photocopy, extract citations, read, check, ...) and milestones
- Print lists of to do lists with a click
Ainm.ie
For the purposes of review, I have chosen a tool called 'Ainm.ie'. It is an online database which consists of approximately 1700 biographies for individuals who have made a significant contribution to the Irish language over the past 5 centuries. My goal is to use it as a resource for my dissertation (" 'Sun Tzu Is Ainm Dom': Ireland's Language and Its Military Diaspora"). To that end, I have been searching Ainm.ie for figures connected to both the Irish language and military history. So far, I have searched for individuals based on the following criteria: 1: Each candidate must have a connection to Irish military history (a field which is at times difficult to separate from overall military history). 2: Definition of a connection: a person of Irish descent who has engaged in military service on behalf of a foreign power in an army, marine (in the case of Britain or the US), naval or air capacity. 3: If an individual is related to a figure who has engaged in such activities, this is also acceptable. 4: Also counted amongst my choices are individuals who have aided war efforts in civilian capacities, e.g. propaganda campaigns, recruitment drives, diplomacy or intelligence work. 5: They must also have made a positive contribution to the Irish language, or have used it to some extent during wartime. 6: The (surprisingly large) number of people with no Irish connection but who have served in military conflicts will not be included for the purposes of this particular study. 7: Those who may have served in the Irish army are not mentioned as I do not count them as part of the military diaspora. Based upon said qualifications, I have chosen 90 people (so far). In order to understand my choice of Ainm.ie as a research tool, it is first necessary to understand my reasons for choosing my research topic. I want (insofar as it's possible) to tell the story of Irish speakers at war, because it's something which I feel has been neglected. Because this is a very much a niche topic, it has proven impossible for me to rely solely on conventional digital tools. Simply typing the phrase 'Irish (or Gaelic) speakers in the British (or American/French/, etc.) army' into Google, Google Scholar or DuckDuckGo does not guarantee a result. It has even been necessary for much of the time to consult non-digital resources. Since my goal has been to create a digital artifact using any and all means at my disposal, I have had to content myself with a lack of digital tools at my disposal. Ainm.ie has, however, been an exception due to the sheer volume of information it contains. Here is a breakdown of how the site's functions relevant to my work:
- Search engine
- This is the most basic function on the sight and it has the standard function of any website search engine. Beneath it, there is another search button for more specialized searches involving 'keywords' and 'phrases'. I have used this many times for military terms such as 'soldier(s)', 'war(s)', 'military', 'regiment(s)', 'brigade(s)', etc. The site is mostly in Irish. Changes in spelling and grammar are important when deciding what phrase to search for. Take for example if one searches for the phrase briogáid (the Irish for 'brigade' in the nominative case), the same results will usually be yielded if he/she uses bhriogáid (the dative case equivalent).
- Alphabetical list
- This enables the user to search for individuals by the first letter of their surname. Highly useful, but a distinction must be made between "Ó" and "O' " at the start of some names, and also between names rendered wholly in Irish or English.
- Themes
- Searches can be carried under the following headings: placenames, works, the Gaelic League, educational institutions, professions and political parties. In my view, this section has its drawbacks because the part dealing with placenames is limited insofar as one cannot search for South Africa, even though references are made to the Boer War. The 'professions' search is also problematic, because although one can find 'SMYTHE, William James' under the title 'soldier', because he is tagged as such in his entry's information box (see next entry), having spent a good deal of his life in the Royal Artillery. Ó FLAITHEARTA, Liam cannot be found under same, because even though he fought in the Irish Guards during the First World War, he is not tagged as a soldier. The reasons for such distinctions are not made clear. Ó Flaithearta left the army after the war. Ó CATHÁIN, Seán (1889–1948) was in the US army at the same time, and left the army after the war, but he is tagged with Smythe.
- Information box
- Each individual biographical entry contains a box on the left-hand corner containing basic details such as place of birth, gender, school, higher education and writer. The place of birth section because it provides a link to 'logainm.ie', a website which provides information in both English and Irish regarding Irish placenames. Some entries also contain a profession section, where those with similar professions are usually tagged together, but with some exceptions (see previous entry)
Google Open Gallery
Zoom feature for high resolution images to be embedded in websites. Hosted website for online exhibitions of uploaded images, text video and sound. Metadata management for digitised items. Clear interface allows for searches and comparisons. Free to use but one must apply for an invitation.
Alpheios
The goal of the Alpheios project is to help people learn how to learn languages as efficiently and enjoyably as possible, and in a way that best helps them understand their own literary heritage and culture, and the literary heritage and culture of other peoples throughout history. One of the principal tools, a Firefox plugin, allows a reader to browse a web page with Latin, ancient Greek, or Arabic, click on a word, and get a definition and morphological analysis of the word. Initial focus is on classical literature in languages no longer spoken, such as Latin and ancient Greek, but will eventually include a wide variety of languages, ancient and modern. By sharing these tools and the source code in which they are written freely on the Web, the Alpheios Project also hopes to encourage their collaborative development. The software as of July 2012 is in Beta release, with all the caveats normally associated with that level of development. Other tools under development include a treebank editor, an alignment editor, text analysis software, and learning management software.
VisualEyes
VisualEyes is web-based authoring tool developed at the University of Virginia to weave images, maps, charts, video, and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations.
WorldMap
WorldMap is a web-based map collaboration platform hosted at Harvard, which allows anyone to store, organize, visualize, edit, collaborate, and publish geospatial information. Upload your own map layers or use maps others have contributed. The system attempts to fill the growing gap between powerful desktop-bound mapping applications, and lightweight web map solutions with limited storage capacity.
GeoRSS
Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. GeoRSS was designed as a lightweight, community driven way to extend existing feeds with geographic information. As RSS and Atom become more prevalent as a way to publish and share information, it becomes increasingly important that location is described in an interoperable manner so that applications can request, aggregate, share and map geographically tagged feeds. RSS Map of Digital Humanities centers Two primary GeoRSS encoding exist, including GeoRSS Geography Markup Language (GML) and GeoRSS Simple. GeoRSS-Simple is a lightweight format that supports basic geometries of point, line, box, polygon. GeoRSS GML is a Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GML Application Profile, and supports a greater range of features than GeoRSS Simple.
Kartograph
Kartograph is a pair of free and open source libraries for representing data with a spatial component on webpages or in print. The first library, Kartograph.py, is a Python library that builds lightweight vector graphic maps from either shapefiles or PostGIS tables. These graphics files can be styled either using a cascading style sheet during creation or later on the second library, Kartograph.js. The vector files can also be edited and enhanced in a vector graphics program like Adobe Illustrator. Kartograph.js allows the user to create interactive maps for web pages and web applications, using vector graphics files and data files to both draw the basemap and the features of interest. Unlike many web-based mapping libraries, Kartograph.js requires no server or even internet connection. All of the pertinent information is in the vector and data files. The results are highly customizable and can absolutely arresting, visually.
Omeka
Omeka is a content management system designed for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Omeka allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects.
Ushahidi Platform
Ushahidi is an open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, to build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. It has been used for election monitoring, crisis and emergency response, civil society, city/community building, arts and even where to find the best burger. Specific tools: Crowdmap: A simple map-making tool, built on an open API, that allows for collaborative mapping Swiftriver: Curate real-time data and analysis from a variety of sources, including social media streams CrisisNET: A consolidated source of global crisis data Ping: Two-way multichannel group alert during an emergency SMSSync: Create a two way gateway with an Android phone and local SIM anywhere in the world BRCK: Supports connectivity in remote locations, self-powered, mobile WiFi device
DH Press
DH Press (originally called diPH) is a toolkit conceived as an easy-to-use WordPress plugin which allows potentially every kind of user to visualise and mashup historic and geographic information, documents and various types of multimedia content to develop digital humanities project. The user cannot start from the toolkit itself, as the first step to set up a project, when the toolkit is already installed, is a CSV import. This means that the raw information has to be processed first, through any software like Microsoft Excel or Google Spreadsheet, following some conventions dictated by the toolkit, and once completed must be exported in CSV format. The file can then be imported into DH Press. At this point, the user finally has full control over the data. First, the toolkit needs to be informed of what kind of data is in each column, as it can handle various types, such as Short Text, Long Text, Lat/Lon, Date, and Link. The steepest learning curve resides here, in the data management part, as the database must be set up very carefully, and fixing any problem later is complex. This does not mean that new users cannot approach the tool, but some basic research on data management is required to make correct use of it. After setting up all this fields, called “motes” in the toolkit, a legend can be assigned to each of them, for example a field called “city” might contain, through multiple entries, ten different cities, and to each of those will correspond the colour chosen by the user. It is also possible to assign icons or png images instead of colours. A single control panel then allows the user to create, set up and manage multiple visualisations of different kind, and in each of them the user can choose which information to display and how. This part is the most useful and is really straightforward. The last section of the control panel lets the user set up custom fields for data and run a test of the whole project, and outputs detailed error information. Following the training page, http://dhpress.org/training/, it is possible to take advantage of a pre-existing database, which can be used to quickly set up a project, so that one can instantly work on the main control panel. There is a detailed google document that guides the user through the process step by step, and also offers an even more detailed annex. A couple of hours is enough to go through all of it and get the necessary information to use it correctly. Then, any view can be quickly set up and customised in any desired way. Overall, this toolkit is quite stable, reliable, user-friendly after the first entry barrier and gives you a varied set of tools to visualise and display a large amount of data in a neat, organised manner. For a more detailed and personal review, please read http://claudiasartori.com/2015/01/tool-review-dh-press/
MapHub
Maphub in a web portal for georeferencing and annotating digitized historic maps. Georeferencing transforms the map image to align with real world geographic coordinates, while the annotations are overlaps plus notes. Maphub suggests possible tags for the annotation based on its text and location; tags link to related Wikipedia articles. Once created, user-contributed annotations are shared via the Maphub Open Annotation API. A first prototype of Maphub, using digitized maps from the Library of Congress’ Map Division, can be found at http://maphub.herokuapp.com/.
nodegoat
nodegoat is a web-based data management, analysis & visualisation environment. Using nodegoat, you can define, create, update, query, and manage any number of datasets by use of a graphic user interface. Your custom data model autoconfigures the backbone of notegoat's core functionalities. Within nodegoat you are able to instantly analyse and visualise datasets. nodegoat allows you to enrich data with relational, geographical and temporal attributes. Therefore, the modes of analysis are inherently diachronic and ready-to-use for interactive maps and extensive trailblazing. In order to share the functionalities of nodegoat with the scholarly community, scholars and research institutes are invited to use nodegoat for their own research purposes. Send an email to [email protected] to discuss using nodegoat for your research projects. nodegoat allows scholars to build datasets based on their own data model and offers relational modes of analysis with spatial and chronological forms of contextualisation. By combining these elements within one environment, scholars are able to instantly process, analyse and visualise complex datasets relationally, diachronically and spatially; trailblazing. nodegoat follows an object-oriented approach throughout its core functionalities. Borrowing from actor-network theory this means that people, events, artefacts, and sources are treated as equal: objects, and hierarchy depends solely on the composition of the network: relations. This object-oriented approach advocates the self-identification of individual objects and maps the correlation of objects within the collective. nodegoat can host multiple projects with different relational data models and manage users with various privileges and project affiliations. With the integration of version history and dynamic discussion fields, users can work on and discuss different aspects of the datasets without losing any data in the process. Scholars define their own data models freely and dynamically with no limitations to relational structures or depths. This model allows for filtering and analysis of complex relations between objects in your datasets. Paths between different objects can be analysed to expose relational networks. As each object can be supplemented with geographical and temporal attributes, diachronic geographic and social visualisations of your datasets are directly available. nodegoat is capable of processing complex queries. In nodegoat you query your data by means of filtering functionalities. These filters are based on the data model that has been set up and are as complex or as simple. Also, these filters will go as deep as the connections that can be made within the data model. Each filter can be stored and re-used by other users and can be used for various functionalities within a research project. For instance, once a filter has been stored a user can ‘follow’ a filter and be notified when an object matching this filter has been added or modified. nodegoat allows scholars to define in-text references to any object in your dataset. Example: should you include a transcript of a meeting, you can 'tag' people or organisations mentioned in this transcript. The database will save this reference as a relation between the object of the person/organisation and the object of the meeting. nodegoat is built to be fully platform independent. It is possible to import complex and relational datasets from file and to export clean relational datasets in standard JSON or XML formatting.
ArcGIS
ArcGIS is a suite of software that comprises of Desktop GIS, Server GIS, Mobile GIS, and ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS is a platform for building a complete geographic information system (GIS) that lets you easily create, edit, and analyse geographic knowledge on the desktop; publish data, maps, globes and models to a GIS server and/or share them online; and use them on the desktop, on the Web, or in the field. Features:
- View and query maps
- Manipulate shapefiles and geodatabases
- Data manipulation, editing and analysis
- Mobile device enabled
PolyMeta
PolyMeta is a metasearch engine that displays the search results in the form of clusters and images. The results are sorted according to source and category.
Weave (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment)
Weave (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment) is a visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency — novice to advanced — as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography.
Weave (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment) on DiRT
Map Warper
This is an open source platform for georectifying scanned images of maps, so that they can be displayed in web maps or used in GIS applications. It could be particularly useful for creating map overlays for Google Earth or similar applications, without using specialized desktop software. Map images must first be uploaded and made publicly available, and then by aligning with Open Street Map reference data, the maps are warped into georeferenced images. Georectified images are downloadable as GeoTIFF, PNG, or KML files, along with map tiles or WMS capabilities. The same platform was used for NYPL Map Warper and WorldMap Warp.
mapline
Mapline (previously Topo.ly) is a free and paid online service for capturing and geocoding spatial data from spreadsheets and creating point, territory and heat maps. It is free for limited use (quite generous) and paid when you need to map significant (we are talking substantial) datasets. It's intuitive, easy to use and produces high quality interactive maps. Free service has only minimal map customization options and does not include the visual analysis that is included with the fee options.
MapWarper
Map Warper is a tool for digitally aligning ("rectifying") historical maps to match today's precise maps. It is used publicly by the NYPL to crowdsource georectification of their own library of digitised historical maps. In the wider version developed by Tim Waters user supplied maps can be georectified for subsequent use in your own mapping projects.
ERDAS Imagine
ERDAS Imagine is a suite of geospatial data authoring software. The suite contains a raster graphics editor and remote sensing application that performs advanced remote sensing analysis and spatial modelling to create new information. ERDAS IMAGINE can also visualize results in 2D, 3D, video, and on cartographic quality map compositions. It is primarily designed for geospatial raster data processing and the creation of digital images for mapping use in GIS or CAD software. Features:
- Image Analysis, Remote Sensing
- Parallel Batch Processing
- Spatial Modeling
- High Performance Mosaicking Engine in IMAGINE Advantage
- Expanded Change Detection Tools (with Zonal Change Detection)
- ERDAS ER Mapper Algorithms
- Converts over 190 Image Formats to all Major File Formats, including GeoTIFF, NITF, CADRG, JPEG, JPEG2000, ECW and MrSID
- Implements Comprehensive OGC Web Processing Service (WPS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Catalog Services for the Web (CS-W)
iBoogie
iBoogie is a clustering search engine that puts documents with similar content or with related topics into the same group. Each group is assigned a label based on the content of the documents. The results are presented to the user in a hierarchy of topics (clusters) for browsing.
ZeeMaps
ZeeMaps quickly maps point data on Google base maps in two ways: 1) The user uploads a .csv file of data points and their locations. 2) A group of users all add their own data location points to the map, on their own time from their own devices. Each point can include text, video, image, or audio annotations. Basic functionality is free; larger uploads and large numbers of maps require a paid subscription.
TileMill
Open source map design studio for creating and styling web tile maps, based on either provided free MapBox Geodata, or data imported as a variety of file formats. It uses the CartoCSS styling language to customize interactive visualizations, with powerful control of symbols, zoom levels, labels, and other cartographic details. The finished maps can be exported either as images or tiled web maps. Though the TileMill software is free, there may be a fee to host the created tiles on MapBox or elsewhere.
Leaflet
This JavaScript library can be used to create mobile-friendly interactive maps. It does not provide data to map, but can be used to map spatial data in GeoJSON format, or display tiles from other sources such as MapBox.
Eva Wallace
“Geocaching is an online adventure where you can use your GPS or your phone to track a nearby “cache” which can be anything using the GPS location after setting up a free account.The aim is then to find an object of whichever shape or size, sign the logbook or even trade “nic-naks”.The geocaching application enables the user to connect to the geocaching world, login, log caches,use your device as a GPS and compass.
QGIS
QGIS is a user-friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.
Modest Maps
Modest Maps is a small Javascript library for interactive tile-based maps that can display maps from external sources (e.g. OpenStreetMap, but not commercial layers like Google Maps), enable panning and zooming, and track the position of points based on XML data. It is designed to be lightweight and offer a minimal set of features, and therefore has less functionality than Leaflet, a similar tool.
CONTENTdm
CONTENTdm is digital collection management software that allows for the upload, description, management, and access of digital collections. CONTENTdm is mostly used by libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, universities, corporations, historical societies, and other organizations that wish to host a digital collection.
- Collection storage, management, and delivery to users across the web, in any format (e.g., local history archives, newspapers, books, maps, slide libraries, audio, video)
- Integrated OCR capability for full-text searching
- Support for complex media; import tools and wizards
- Controlled vocabulary for consistent, uniform metadata entry
- Standards support (e.g., Unicode, Z39.50, Qualified Dublin Core, VRA, XML, JPEG2000, OAI-PMH)
- Collection metadata harvesting to WorldCat
- Flexible and fully customizable; integration with OCLC products
- Website configuration tools and hosting services
- Advanced customizations can be made using the CONTENTdm API
OpenLayers
OpenLayers is a Javascript library that can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source in web browser. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications.
Recollection
Recollection is a platform developed by Zepheira for the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), allowing users to create and share embeddable interfaces to digital cultural heritage collections. The Library of Congress released its latest version of Recollection as Viewshare, built to increase the ease of finding, using, and sharing the project's software. Recollection incorporates a series of web-based open standards and open source tools, including RDF, Simile Exhibit, Akara, and Django.
Quadrigram
Quadrigram describes itself as a "visual programming environment" for living data. It is a web-based tool for data visualization that allows the user to customize and publish interactive visualizations with a range of data types. Visualization possibilities range from basic charts and graphs (e.g., pie chart, bar graph), to more sophisticated visualizations for exploring complex datasets (e.g., networks, geo-data, zoomable tree map, quadrification, stacked flow). Easy to use; ideal for users with visualization needs, but little to no experience programming or creating visualizations. Users may include data researchers, analysts, consultants, and data journalists, as well as any individual or group with one or more readily available data source. In-depth documentation available. Quadrigram offers variable features and pricing, based on the following plans:
- Academic — $7.47/month*
- Free trial available
- Includes 1 user, 100 MB storage, 1 GB/month bandwidth
- 10 public published projects, 2 protected published projects
- Comprehensive connector access (all file formats, databases, APIs)
- Support via a support team
- Personal — $23.66/month*
- Free trial available
- Includes 1 user, 3 GB storage, 5 GB/month bandwidth
- Unlimited public published projects, 20 protected published projects
- Same connector and support access as the Academic plan
- Professional — $73.48/month*
- Includes 3 users, 10 GB storage, 15 GB/month bandwidth
- Unlimited public and protected published projects
- Same connector and support access as Academic and Professional plans
- Additional support via account manager
- Workgroup — $310.09/month*
- Includes 20 users, 100 GB storage, 75 GB/month bandwidth
- Same project volume, connector, and support access as the Professional plan
- Enterprise — Inquire for pricing
- Can include customized cloud servers and appliances
- Added training and consulting services
MapTiler
MapTiler allows efficient and fast multi-core paralellized rendering of raster geodata (TIFF/GeoTIFF, MrSID, ECW, JPEG2000, Erdas HFA, NOAA BSB/KAP, Ozi Explorer OZF2/OZFx3, JPEG, GIF, PNG and more…) into map tiles suitable for Google Maps API mashups (OpenStreetMap, Microsoft Bing, MapQuest, MapBox, Google Earth; MBTiles format is supported), native mobile applications (iPhone/iPad/Android) with Apple MapKit, RouteMe or OSMDroid. It automatically produces large seamless maps from several input files (MapTiler Pro) and directly optimizes the produced tiles for minimal filesize which allows extremely fast distribution of maps from any ordinary webserver or from a cloud CDN (Rackspace Cloud Files, Apache, PHP, Linux, DropBox, Google Drive, Amazon S3/CloudFront, Google Cloud Storage). Interaction with the software and tips are available in Youtube tutorials at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHe6Moaz52PiQd1mO-S9QrCjqSn1v-ay
Crowdmap
Crowdmap allows the investigator to set up a Web map around a particular topic and invite multiple users (participants, research subjects, collaborators, multiple assistants) to contribute information to the map on their own time and from their own device. For $10/month, users can buy fee-based services including private maps and custom branding. Users have complained that Crowdmap is glitchy and unreliable. It is hard to find recent examples of successful projects built with the app. There is no other free and open source tool that fills the precise niche. For a freemium closed source service that allows crowdsourced point data only, try ZeeMaps. For a fee-based, open source crowd mapping tool, try the shared tables function of CartoDB.
myHistro
Visualizes a series of events across both time and space. Allows researcher to create of an interactive timeline and map that are linked together. Users of the timeline can press "play" to watch the timeline scroll forward and the map zoom from place to place as they highlight each event (and the researcher's attached images and text) in turn. Users can also pause the progress of history, move forward or back at their own pace, and zoom in or out of either the map or timeline to examine areas of interest. Compare to: StoryMap JS, MapStory, Odyssey.js
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
ORBIS is an "interactive scholarly work" that allows a user to determine the cost, time, and distance of various land, sea, and river routes among hundreds of sites in the ancient world, at various times of day and in various seasons. The work can be (and has been) used as a tool to study questions in various fields of study about antiquity, including trade and social interaction.
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World on DiRT
SQL Server
A server-side software application that enables databases conformant to a relational data model to be created, managed and queried. Information, most commonly text may be stored as one or more records contained within a table. The table may exist in isolation or have some relationship to other tables. Information may be manipulated using a set of T-SQL or ANSI SQL commands. Several editions of SQL Server 2014 are available, including SQL Server Business Intelligence, Developer, Enterprise, Express, Standard and Web. Features:
- Service Broker
- Replication Services using transaction, merge, or snapshot replication
- Analysis functionality to perform data mining, OLAP and other services
- Report generation services
- Enterprise scalability across compute, networking, and storage
- Consistent data platform on-premises to cloud
- Easy integration with Microsoft Azure
Oracle Database
Oracle Database is a powerful and extensive relational database management system (RDBMS). There are restrictions on the free version of the software. Features:
- Supports symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
- Stores data logically in the form of tablespaces and physically in the form of datafiles
- Transportable tablespaces
- Advanced Queuing (AQ)
- 64-bit database
- Data Mining Option
Plone
Plone is a powerful, flexible, open source Content Management System (CMS) built on top of Zope application server and CMF. Features:
- Flexible and adaptable workflow
- Customisable
- Free add-ons
- Versioning, history and reverting content
- Support for multiple mark up formats
- Multilingual content management
- RSS feed support
- WebDAV and FTP support
- WYSIWYG
- Integrates with Active Directory, Salesforce, LDAP, SQL, Web Services, LDAP and Oracle
CiteULike
CiteULike is a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser so you can access it from any computer with an Internet connection. CiteULike supports annotation and rating of items, and upload of attachments (e.g. PDF file). (Attachments are only accessible privately by individual users). Bibliographic entries can be imported singly or in batches using BibTex or RIS formats.
Adobe Dreamweaver
A visual development tool for creating, publishing, and managing websites and mobile content: Dreamweaver offers a graphics-based WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You GET pronounced wizzywig) and code-based user interface for the development of web pages and sites. The tool may be used to simplify the process of web site development (in comparison to creation of individual web pages), through the provision of a templating system that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting. Features:
- WYSIWYG
- Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
- Subversion integration
- FTP/SFTP support
- WebDav support
- Web site template system
- Adobe Spry AJAX framework support
bitly
Bitly is a link shortening service that also helps you share, track, and analyze your links. Now includes "bundles" which can be public or private, to gather your links by categories you choose. A social network style feed of other people's bitly links can be added to your dashboard. An iOS app is available for iPhone. Wordpress plugin and API are available. Site includes a sub-site about the API for developers here: dev.bitly.com
DEVONthink
DEVONthink is a database that helps users organize, manage and collaborate on digital files, including Office files, links, e-mails, research data and PDFs.
Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
TiddlyWiki
TiddlyWiki is a reusable personal web notebook. It allows anyone to create personal hypertext documents that can be published on the Web, and also search and tag content. The developers write, "TiddlyWiki is designed to be non-linear, structuring content with stories, tags, hyperlinks, and other features. You can organise and retrieve your notes in ways that conform to your personal thought patterns, rather than feel chained to one preset organisational structure. You can use TiddlyWiki as a single file that you view and edit through any web browser, whether you are online or offline. Or you can use it as a powerful Node.js application that stores each of your notes as a separate file."
Diva.js
Diva.js (Document Image Viewer with AJAX) is a JavaScript book image viewer designed to present multi-page documents at multiple resolutions. Using Diva.js, high resolution images can be delivered to scholars interested in studying fine details of archival collection images.
Archeosurveyor (TerraSurveyor)
Now called TerraSurveyor, it is a software application for the transfer, assembly and enhancement of geophysical data obtained from gradiometers, resistivity meters and other monitoring instruments. With support for Geoplot, GSSI Profiler, Surfer (ASCII & binary) and Scintrex input formats
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is a web development framework written in the Ruby language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology that is used by web developers for rapid development.
KORA
KORA is an digital repository that allows institutions to ingest, manage, and deliver digital objects and metadata.
Wiggio
Wiggio is a free service that allows users to create groups, host virtual meetings and conference calls, manage events, create to-do lists, poll members, send messages, and upload and manage folders. You can connect with your FaceBook account or create a new and free account with Wiggio. They are no longer supporting previously available Wiggio apps.
Vérité TImeline
TImeline is an open source framework for visualizing data files and data feeds in a variety of formats via an aesthetically pleasing web display. Timelines are interactive and media rich. User creates timeline by completing a google sheets template. The Timeline then processes and generates the code for display. Minimal programming knowledge is required.
OpenRefine
OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a tool for cleaning messy data (e.g. fixing inconsistencies), transforming it between different formats, and exploring data.
JsFiddle
JsFiddle is a prototyping tool for web developers, a tool which may be used in many ways. It can be used as an online editor for snippets build from HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The code can then be shared with others, embedded on a blog, etc. Using this approach, JavaScript developers can very easily isolate bugs. We aim to support all actively developed frameworks - it helps with testing compatibility.
FacultyFiles
Web-based tool for managing courses (especially online courses) that allows you to save grading feedback, discussion reply posts, files, lectures, and so forth. Features a user community to discuss the tool, teaching in general, and includes a job board.
OttoBib
OttoBib generates a bibliography or citation with just an ISBN. Additionally, the reader or teacher can see the books, their covers, links to Amazon or other online references.
Proxémie
A French-developed Java application that displays the lexical relations of a word in a 3D environment.
timesheet.js
Timesheet.js is a javascript library to construct and display simple timelines. There are no external dependencies, no jQuery is needed and no Angular.JS. Timelines are rendered within your browser but do not offer the advanced interaction of products such as Timeline.js or SIMILE Timeline/Exhibit.
timesheet.js
Timesheet.js is a javascript library to construct and display simple timelines. There are no external dependencies, no jQuery is needed and no Angular.JS. Timelines are rendered within your browser but do not offer the advanced interaction of products such as Timeline.js or SIMILE Timeline/Exhibit.
timesheet.js
Timesheet.js is a javascript library to construct and display simple timelines. There are no external dependencies, no jQuery is needed and no Angular.JS. Timelines are rendered within your browser but do not offer the advanced interaction of products such as Timeline.js or SIMILE Timeline/Exhibit.
Lightroom 5
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a photo processor and image organizer developed by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X. It allows viewing, organizing and retouching a large number of digital images. Lightroom's edits are non-destructive. However, despite sharing name with Adobe Photoshop, it is incapable of performing many of Photoshop functions such as doctoring (adding, removing or altering the appearance of individual image items), rendering text or 3D objects on images or modifying individual video frames.
Pulse Work
Important Note: Pulse Workspace requires an enterprise license. Please contact your school's IT organization before attempting to use this client. Pulse Workspace helps your educational organization/school enterprise mobilize their applications, govern their data, and respect the privacy of their employees without compromising native user experience. Pulse Workspace' App Virtualization technology secures and isolates enterprise data for any app on any device with no dependence on the app vendor or device manufacturer. This allows enterprises to mobilize their business, secure their data and prevent data leakage from mobile devices. It gives the enterprise the flexibility to choose the apps it needs and the employee the freedom to choose the device they want. Workspace for enterprise apps: • Enterprise data is secured and isolated. • Personal data remains out-of-reach of IT. • Application level VPN integrated with Pulse Secure’s Connect Secure SSL VPN gateway • Apps run natively, locally, and offline. • Apps share data within the workspace. Centralized Policy Management: • Enterprise application management • Passcode, data-at-rest encryption, controlled information sharing, Network/per-app VPN • Enterprise wipe leaves all personal data untouched Any App on Any Device: • IT can push any apps it needs (Built-in, Google Play, Custom) to any device • Users install the Workspace on the device of their choice. • Android 4.x
Islandora
Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage, and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework. Islandora was originally developed by the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library, but is now implemented and contributed to by an ever-growing international community.
CMAP
CMAP allows users to create, navigate, and share concept maps that can easily be displayed online using HTML and Javascript.
Apache Solr
Standard web browser, Firefox, Chrome, Safari
DM (Digital Mappaemundi)
DM is an environment for the study and annotation of images and texts. It is a suite of tools, enabling scholars to gather and organize the evidence necessary to support arguments based in digitized resources. DM enables users to mark fragments of interest in manuscripts, print materials, photographs, etc. and provide commentary on these resources and the relationships among them.
Scalar
Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. Scalar can also be used to assemble and annotate video content, and combine in with text to create a rich media document
Mukurtu CMS
Mukurtu CMS is a free, mobile and open source platform built to manage and share digital cultural heritage. Mukurtu (MOOK-oo-too) is a grassroots project aiming to empower communities to manage, share and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways. We are committed to maintaining an open, community-driven approach to Mukurtu's continued development. Our first priority is to help build a platform that fosters relationships of respect and trust.
T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation)
Extensive set of tools to allow collaborative transcription of manuscript pages in TEI-compliant XML.
Features of T-PEN through version 1.2 [from project blog]
Zoom Tool in Transcription User Interface: Holding CTRL+SHIFT will result in a magnified image of the current line being transcribed.
Magnifying Tool in Full Page View: Click on "Magnify" button at the top right of the browser window and a magnifying glass tool will appear as the mouse pointer. Click on the same button to dismiss the tool. The magnifying tool is also available in the Compare Page feature.
Create a Project “Pipeline” to the outer world: In partnership with The Carolingian Canon Law Project (CCL), T-PEN developed a model for enabling users working on transcription projects in T-PEN to export their work to a larger, external project. In this instance, the CCL prepared for T-PEN an XML-markup template (XML button set) that may be used for all transcriptions destined for the CCL database. Users identify their T-PEN projects as destined for the CCL, and when the transcription is complete, they can submit it from T-PEN to the CCL project. The CCL receives notification of the stable URL in T-PEN that the CCL can (either manually or by automation) use to extract the designated transcription from T-PEN’s data store. Other projects interested in creating their own pipeline should contact T-PEN via t-pen.org
T-PEN Administration: T-PEN administrator can clear registration requests that have not been approved (ones that were mostly generated through internal testing).
Transcription UI: The previous line text will scale to the size of the screen. When on the first line of the page, available text from the last line of the previous page will be shown.
Visual Cue for Closing Tag Proximity (Transcription UI): Closing tags originating on previous pages are faded to indicate their distance from the current line of transcription.
Transcription Preview: The preview tool now applies a simple color filter to
T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation) on DiRT
TimeMapper
TimeMapper is an open source timeline tool that takes information in a Google spreadsheet and uses it to generate a timeline that can then be published, shared, or embedded on the web. It utilizes components from other open source tools like TimelineJS and Leaflet maps. It is simple to use, but not easily customizable.
Tiki-Toki
Tiki-Toki provides users with the ability to create interactive and stylish timelines either through a web application or through a desktop app. Timelines created through the web interface can be shared or embedded. Timelines created through the desktop app are only available locally, and can be used for presentations, or for creating timelines using data that you wish to store locally. Users with a free account can create one timeline that can't be embedded. Paid users can create multiple timelines that can be embedded, as well as edited by multiple users.
Blogger
Freedity
VIPS
IIP Image Server
IBM AeroText
IBM AeroText is an information extraction system for developing knowledge-based content analysis applications.
Transana
Transana is a computer program that allows researchers to transcribe and analyze large collections of video, audio, and image data.
Praat
Praat is software for the phonetic analysis of speech, including support for articulatory and speech synthesis.
VARD
VARD 2 is an interactive piece of software produced in Java designed to assist users of historical corpora in dealing with spelling variation, particularly in Early Modern English texts. The tool is intended to be a pre-processor to other corpus linguistic methods such as keyword analysis, collocations and annotation (e.g. POS and semantic tagging), the aim being to improve the accuracy of these tools The VARD 2 software uses techniques derived from modern spell checkers to find candidate modern form replacements for spelling variants found within historical texts. The user can choose to process texts manually, selecting a candidate replacement offered by the system; automatically, allowing the system to use the best candidate replacement found; or semi-automatically, training the tool on a sample of the corpora. The tool is designed specifically for Early Modern English spelling variation, but it can be used to deal with possibly any form of spelling variation, in any language, by plugging in your own dictionary and spelling rules. Various related publications are available detailing the tool and its uses. And a full userguide is available.
Xendo
Xendo is an online research tool that provides unified search across cloud-based storage (such as Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, OneDrive) and email (such as Gmail, Office 365) and other services such as Slack, Trello and Asana (25 integrations to-date). Xendo offers advanced search capabilities such as proximity searching (looking for term or phrase within a number of words of a second term or phrase). Xendo uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to make scanned documents searchable. For some services, Xendo offers a content preview to speed research.
Babbel Language Learning Tool
Spoken Word -My Other Office Transcription Service
Spoken Word - My Other Office Transcription Services is based in Toronto, Ontario, but serves clients across Canada and the United States. We strive to maintain our position as one of the best transcription companies through our guarantee of high quality product, quick turnaround times, and commitment to our customers’ satisfaction.
Annotation Graph Toolkit (AGTK)
AGTK is a suite of software components for building tools for annotating linguistic signals, time-series data which documents any kind of linguistic behavior (e.g. audio, video). The internal data structures are based on annotation graphs. Annotation Graphs are a formal framework for representing linguistic annotations of time series data. (Note: last release 2007. Last update on sourceforge page 2011). The links on the sourceforge page are broken: software is reportedly released under a 'Common Public Licence', although the link to the licence at http://www.opensource.org/ is broken; link to the project website at the Linguistic Data Consortium is broken.
CorpusSearch
CorpusSearch 2 allows users to construct and search syntactically annotated corpora, including finding and counting lexical and syntactic patterns, correcting systemic errors, and coding linguistic features. The software is released under Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1) .
Concordance
A software tool for performing concordance – the analysis of a set of words within its immediate context - on a body of text. The tool performs full concordance, reading and analysing each and every word in a text. It was initially written for the analysis of English texts, but has since been extended to cater for other Western languages. Limited support is also provided for text in East Asian scripts, such as Chinese and Korean. Features:
- Full concordance of a text
- Index and word list creation
- Word frequency count
- Word usage comparison
- Keyword analysis
- Phrase and idiom discovery
CLAWS Tagger
Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging software for English - the classification of words into one or more categories based upon its definition, relationship with other words, or other context, also known as wordclass tagging. CLAWS (Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System) uses several methods to identify parts of speech., most notably a system called Hidden Markov models (HMMs) which involve counting examples of co-occurrence of words and wordclasses in training data and making a table of the probabilities of certain sequences of words. Features:
- Parts-of-Speech tagging with an accuracy rate of approximately 96-97 percent for text analyzed for common text types in British English.
- Template tagging
AntConc
AntConc is free concordance software. It is multi-platform and easy to deploy and use. AntConc is part of a suite of related tools for text processing and analysis, including applications for parallel corpus analysis, word profiling, PDF to text conversion, text structure analysis, detecting and converting character encodings, Japanese and Chinese segmenter and tokenizer, wordclass tagger, and spelling variant anaysis. The developer is currently drafting a more explicit licence for the use of the software.
Jonny Mathias
Pretty cool reference tool which is free to use. The team behind it will build referencing styles free of charge and change there product based on feedback. They're keen to learn
Aelfred
Aelfred is a bare-bones Java XML parser. It has not been updated since 2002, and is dependent on JDK 1.4, which is very outdated.
Adlib Archive
Adlib Archive is archival management software that allows archives to create records for objects and make them available online. Adlib Archive is also available as software-as-a-service.
Adobe Acrobat Distiller
Adobe Acrobat Distiller was software for converting Postscript files to PDF. It was discontinued in 2013, with the exception of a server-based version.
Storify - Simple, social storytelling...
This is a very versatile tool for the novice and expert alike; easy to use, visually arresting, creative and works seamlessly with Twitter and other social media. It allows users to curate, what for them are the most important voices and turn them into bespoke stories. This tool enables users to build an information network that can give a unique social and political perspective to any event. Users search through multiple social networks from one place, and then drag and drop individual elements into stories. Users can rearrange the stories and add text to help give context to the readers. It can work well for presentations or quick reporting on what is happening on the internet at any given moment in a snap shot format.
Sketchbook Pro
Sketchbook Pro is a professional grade digital sketchbook. It offers a number of brushes and tools that give the illustration created a natural feel. It is easy to use and along with the use of a graphics tablet can quickly allow for the mock up of a visual concept or can be used in the creation of storyboards for a audio visual production. It also comes as an app that can be used on android tablets or the ipad offering flexibility in order to suit your work flow methods.
MyWebFace
The myWebFace tool allows a person to be creative not only in photo editing, but also to create a cartoon image. The image can be of the self or of another. The picture editing is however limited unless one is willing to pay for service. To compensate for the limitations of the free service provided therein I engaged the photo editor tool available at www.pizap.com . It did this because pizap.com provides options lacking in myWebFace. However, both myWebFace and pizdap.com are photo editor tools and neither provide for free video animation. To overcome this limitation I engaged the video maker kizoa tool, available at: www.kizoa.com . Examples of my videos are set out in the last section of this review. MyWebFace: Research and Evaluation and Associated Web-Sites In researching the myWebFace tool I found an article by Chris Hosea (03 Feb 2011) named “People are looking better: Christopher Williams at David Zwirner” (in the work: Article: and the imaginative promise). Therein the myWebFace tool is mentioned among others. The article elucidates the view that by way of contemporary technology a person can easily “apply dramatic effects to photos” and “create a cartoon version of themselves”. The journal article also encourages people to engage with the tools (http://articlejournal.net/2011/02/03/people-are-looking-better-christopher-williams-at-david-zwirner/ refers). Upon research into the practical application of the myWebFace tool I found that to install it in a computer either Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista is required. Moreover, (i) the tool takes up 1 MB of space on the C drive, (ii) it needs 16 MB of RAM and Internet access to work. With regard to the practical use of the myWebFace tool I found a website named freelancer which advertises that a person can hire professionals who are experts in using the myWebFace tool. They will create animated image(s) for such a customer. The service also provides help (upon separate payment) for customers who want to know how to create their own animations. The service site also advertises jobs for people to work in its customer service departments. The site is available at: https://www.freelancer.is/work/myWebFace-effects/3/. With specific regard to the MyWebFsce site the company provides a road-map (question and answer) provision covering information on how to install the myWebFace toolbar, help for the use of the tool and ways to un-install the tool. The site is available at: http://home.myWebFace.com/support/faqs.html Other helpful sites with reference to myWefFace are: • there is a site that provides plugins and exercise downloads. This is available at: http://softped1a.net/files/myWebFace%20cartoon%20yourself%20free&id=my; and, • there is information about how to remove the myWebFace toolbar from you computer. This is available at: http://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/6986-remove-myWebFace-toolbar There is limited provision on how to use the myWebFace tool. In the overall view regarding the use of the tool, although the tool provides some free open access for use, that access/use is relatively limited; so to is information about how to use the tool even though a tutorial is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJw_PojchU It is however a fact that the myWebFace tool is useful to me for my research objectives. I say this because I wish to engage some limited elements relating to animation in my final submission for the purpose of Arts and Humanities course. In addition, the limitation can be compensated by making use of other free open access sites that also provide limited but different types of limited access; and as mentioned before these sites are pizap.com and kizoa.com. Put differently, the myWebFace tool is useful in that it allows one to created cartoon images, add elements to a picture, distort or melt parts of the image and add or extend facial characteristics. ,
Inkscape
Inkscape is an open-source vector based imaging programme similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X.
Crochet Charts
Crochet Charts is software for creating charts in symbol crochet. It is designed to be easy enough for the hobbyist to use, while also being powerful enough for the professional.
Anki
Anki is flashcard program to aid in rote memorisation. Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example: Learning a language Studying for medical and law exams Memorizing people's names and faces Brushing up on geography Mastering long poems Even practicing guitar chords!
SpatialNote
SpatialNote is a 3D note-taking software. The workspace consists of cubes. SpatialNote allows for working with details from the inside the cube view, and with the big picture from the outside structure view. The idea behind making a 3D note-taking solution is to include spatial memory into the process, and boost memorization by implicit spatial metaphors.The application doesn't require any special skills in 3D.
Prismatic
Content curation and topic discovery website based primarily on publishers the user follows through social media. Upon signing up, users are asked to select a number of topics that fall within their fields of interest. Relevant content is shown in a vertical feed. Users have the option to recommend, comment, share, remove the content from their feed, or save it. Prismatic "learns" from your behaviour which topics and publishers are of most interest to you. They say the more people who use it the better it gets, as recommendations figure greatly into popularity rankings. There are no human editors, just algorithms. Promoted features include connecting with communities who share your interests, learning from users who work in your field, the ability to share your discoveries with friends, and taking a "deep dive on any topic." According to Aria Haghighi, one of the founders "...we have an architecture similar to a search engine: polling and crawling the open web and activity on social networks." A 2013 article on Slate.com refers to Prismatic as "the world's smartest news reader". It's a good addition to other search and curation tools such as Google Alerts and saved Twitter hashtag searches. It aims to be better than the rest through use of parameters that are not static; it adjusts to your preferences as well as trending content on other social media sites.
Freedom
About Freedom Freedom is the amazing little app for Windows and Mac computers that locks you away from the 'net for up to eight hours at a time. At the end of your time offline, Freedom allows you back on the internet. Freedom enforces freedom; you'll need to reboot if you want to get back online while Freedom's running. The hassle of rebooting means you're less likely to cheat, letting you focus on work.
Zotero
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help users collect, organize, cite, and share their research sources Users can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of their libraries, enabling them to find exactly what they're looking for with just a few keystrokes.
http://doodle.com
chart.io
Create interactive charts and perfect dashboards through an intuitive drag and drop interface. Switch from basic tables to sophisticated data visualizations in a single click. Powerful filters let you slice and dice your data, and you can drill down into most charts without configuring a thing. Chartio currently provides nine essential visualization types that can be tweaked, designed, and iterated in any number of ways. Chartio lets you blend data sources in-browser, without the need to clean or format your data in advance. At the very moment you start to explore your data sources, you can blend them together with just a few clicks and chart the results.
OpenSocial
OpenSocial provides a set of shared APIs that allow applications to work across multiple social networks, including LinkedIn, Ning, and MySpace.
writeLaTeX
WriteLaTeX is a free service that lets users create, edit and share their scientific ideas easily online using LaTeX, a comprehensive and powerful tool for scientific writing. Users can start projects with quality LaTeX templates for journals, CVs, resumes, papers, presentations, assignments, letters, project reports, and more.
Rwui
Rwui allows you to convert an R script to a web page with an interface where users can run the script(s) even if they don't know R.
Slideshare
SlideShare is a community for sharing presentations. You can use this free online service to share slides from a talk, share lesson plans, or disseminate information.
Timeflow
Time Flow is an open-source timeline built to help journalists analyze temporal data. The application offers several view modes--timeline, calendar, list, table--to help explore thousands of data points. It is not a web-based tool--it is a desktop application that can run off a thumb-drive and is built to handle large datasets, and timeline events that may include approximate dates or date spans. The project is in the alpha stage of development, but is available for download from Github.
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
GIMP is image editing software, much like Photoshop. It is a multi-platform software application primarily used for image composition and editing. The basic tool may be augmented by plug-ins and extensions that allow the use of new file formats, effects filters and batch processing capabilities. GIMP was initially created to manipulate raster images, but has been extended to provide limited vector image and moving image support. A number of free extensions are available in the plugin registry.
SketchUp (Formerly Google SketchUp)
Google SketchUp is easy-to-use free 3D modeling software.
Google 3D Warehouse
A collection of free-to-download 3D models that have been designed using Google SketchUp.
Frogr
Frogr is a small application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in the Flickr image hosting website. It supports all the basic Flickr features, including uploading pictures, adding descriptions, setting tags and managing sets and groups pools. The latest stable version of Frogr (0.10) currently features a basic flickr uploader with the following features:
- Allow upload of pictures and videos to flickr, specifying details such as title, description, tags, visibility, content type, safety level and whether to "show up on global search results".
- Allow uploading pictures and videos from remote machines, through different protocols (SMB, SSH, FTP...).
- Allow loading/saving the work session from/to 'project' files.
- Allow setting specific licenses and geolocation information for pictures right from the desktop.
- Allow specifying sets and group pools for the elements to be added to after the upload process.
- Allow to create sets right from frogr, opposite to just adding elements to already existing ones.
- Command line interface and integration as MIME type handler for pictures.
- Import tags from picture's metainformation (if present) when loading.
- Support for handling multiple Flickr accounts.
- Support for specifying HTTP proxies manually.
- Integrated with GNOME Shell and the Mac OS X desktops.
Photoshop Express
Photoshop Express allows simple web-based image editing and cloud storage (2 GB free via Adobe Revel), as well as video storage and streaming, slideshow templates, and a photo gallery. Features include online galleries and slideshows, exporting and searching images, and privacy settings. Android, Windows and iOS (including iPad) apps are available.
Picasa
Picasa is an image organizer and viewer for organizing and editing digital photographs that includes an integrated photo-sharing website. For organizing photos Picasa has file importing and tracking features, tagging, facial recognition, and collections for sorting. It offers basic photo editing functions including color enhancement, red eye reduction, cropping, and adding text to images. Other features include slide shows, printing, and image timelines. Picasa does not store the photos you view or edit, it simply looks at folders on your computer to find photos to display. It can display the file types you tell it to from the folders you tell it to search. When editing images in Picasa your original files are never altered. You can choose to save your edits and Picasa will create a new version of the photo, leaving the original intact. Images can be prepared for external use, such as e-mailing or printing, by reducing file size and setting up page layouts. There is also integration with online photo printing services. Picasa uses picasa.ini files and IPTC Information Interchange Model keyword data (JPEG files only) for tracking keywords for each image. The following file types are supported in Picasa (for Windows):
- Photos: .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .gif, .psd (Photoshop), .png, .tga, and selected RAW formats.
- Movies: For general playback: .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, .mkv. For several of these file types, the correct software is required for playback.
- For use in Movie Maker: .avi, .asf, .wmv, .mpg, .m2t, .mmv, .m2ts
- Audio (for slideshows and the Movie Maker): .wma and .mp3
- Animated GIF files will not animate in Picasa
Sumo Paint
Sumo Paint is a free online Flash-based image editor that works in a web browser, without needing to install anything on your device. It has functionality similar to Photoshop and offers many of the same tools but is focused on illustration rather than photo editing. Sumo Paint offers community features such as uploading, commenting, and rating images for users who create free accounts. The paid pro version of the software features a downloadable version of the software which runs on Adobe AIR. Sumo API allows you to embed Sumo Apps to your site. You can integrate Sumo API for free for non-commercial use. Paid subscriptions allow access to the downloadable editor, increased image resolution, enhanced customer support, and early access to new features. Sumo is planning on releasing a photo editor in the near future.
UVic Image Markup Tool
The UVic Image Markup Tool allows you to "describe and annotate images, and store the resulting data in TEI XML files," all within a "simple enough interface that it can be used by people with little or no experience in editing XML code." Designed to be Windows-only, but can be successfully run on Linux using Wine. Guenther Goerz has created a Mac version of the Image Markup Tool using Wine Bottler (it's a large download). Download it from the IMT Downloads page. Features:
- Supports "a wide variety of image formats"
- Saves markup information in conformant TEI P5 XML files
- Create simple web output to display the annotated image in an interactive format
- Simple, graphical interface lets you see the image and the fields for entering your markup notes
- Annotations are visually represented on the image
- View and hide different pieces of annotation as you work to see overlap or remove visual clutter
- Allows knowledgeable TEI users to add additional TEI markup tags to their annotations
- Allows access and manipulation of standard schema used, as well as creation of additional schema
- Can handle multiple images in one file
- Does for images all the wonderful things that XML markup does for text
- Program checks XML for well-formedness and provides some basic assistance in automatically correcting ill-formed XML
- Menu command for creating zip packages (containing image file, XML markup file, and associated schema files) provides an easy solution for moving projects
- This tool also allows you to easily create thumbnails of a whole image or one annotated part of an image--one less task to perform in a separate image editing tool
- Editing done to Image Markup's XML files in an external editor may not be preserved: Image Markup Tool "will not guarantee to preserve XML code which is added to one of its files in an external editor (although it will try)"
- Web output provides only a starting place for web display, and is not a one-stop shop for a finished web product
- Although the program documentation states that little or no user experience with XML markup is needed, it would be advisable to have, at the minimum, some familiarity with the basic concepts of markup (an introductory understanding of HTML, for instance).
- If you are interested in manipulating schemas, they are presented as ODD files (rather than schemas) which are then used to generate the schemas
Snipshot
Snipshot has been acquired by Ansa instant messaging service. A browser bookmarklet that-- when used-- allows a user to select any of the images on the page to edit (basic color enhancement, cropping, etc.). Allows users to save the resulting image in a variety of formats, or email the image.
Analyse-it
A set of dataset management and statistical plugins for Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010 & 2013 including single and multiple linear regression, polynomial regression, and scatter plot with fit, fit confidence and prediction bands. The program can be used to generate visualizations and data reports. Requires Microsoft Excel.
Data Desk
Data Desk implements traditional statistical techniques using a simple graphic display interface for data exploration. The program focuses specifically on the visual exploration of data.
Dataplot
Dataplot is free, public-domain software for statistical analysis, and non-linear modeling. It was developed by the National Insistute of Standards and Technology in the United States. It performs "scientific, engineering, statistical, mathematical, and graphical analysis" through the use of "an interactive, command-driven language/system with English-like syntax." It will function on Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows XP/VISTA/7 systems.
Matlab
MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, Java, and Fortran.
R
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R can be run from the command line, or using any of the many graphical user interfaces available on a variety of platforms; these are listed as separate tools.
Gephi
Gephi is graphing software that provides a way to explore data through visualization and network analysis.
HathiTrust Digital Library
The HathiTrust Digital Library offers public domain texts scanned from university libraries for the Google Books Project, in a variety of formats for search and browsing.
Jumpchart
Jumpchart is a way to collaboratively design website wireframes and sitemaps, and includes the ability to create navigation menus, draft and organize content, and track changes. It could be used as a way to get a head start on building a website, even before a server and/or software are available. Jumpchart offers HTML exports, and a direct-to-WordPress export ($25+/month accounts only).
CATMA: Computer Aided Textual Markup & Analysis
CATMA (Computer Aided Textual Markup & Analysis) is a free, open source markup and analysis tool from the University of Hamburg's Department of Languages, Literature and Media. It incorporates three interactive modules: (1) The tagger enables flexible and individual textual markup and markup editing. (2) The analyzer incorporates a query language and predefined functions. It also includes a query builder that allows users to construct queries from combinations of pre-defined questions while allowing for manual modification for more specific questions. (3) The visualizer provides basic visualization options for texts and corpora. CATMA also interfaces with the Voyant toolset. As of version 4.1, CATMA is a web application with collaborative work functions, and improvements to its user interface, queries and corpus analysis capacity. Version 4.2 offers, among others, new visualization options.
Edition Production & Presentation Technology (EPPT)
EPPT allows users to encode image-based scholarly editions without having to know XML syntax. It automates or semi-automates repeating attributes, and provides templates to reduce errors and accelerate the encoding process.
Philologic
Philologic is a full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool with support for TEI-Lite XML/SGML, Unicode encoding, plaintext, Dublin Core/HTML, and DocBook.
Weka
Weka provides machine learning algorithms in Java for data mining and predictive modeling tasks. These algorithms can either be incorporated into other Java code or called from the Weka Workbench, a GUI environment.
PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations)
PAIR is a sequence alignment algorithm for humanities text analysis designed to identify "similar passages" in large collections of texts. In addition to a Philologic add-on, PAIR is available as Text::Pair, a generalized Perl module that supports one-against-many comparisons. A corpus is indexed and incoming texts are compared against the entire corpus for text reuse.
PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations) on DiRT
PhiloLine
PhiloLine is an add-on for the Philologic text retrieval engine that provides a sequence alignment algorithm for humanities text analysis designed to identify "similar passages" in large collections of texts.
ARTFL Encyclopédie Project
The ARTFL Encyclopédie Project has digitized the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres (published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert between 1751 and 1772, containing 74,000 articles written by more than 130 contributors) and made it available online for scholars to use with the Philologic text retrieval engine and the Philomine text mining tools.
960 Grid System
960 Grid System is a CSS template that comes with corresponding Acorn, Fireworks, Flash, InDesign, GIMP, Inkscape, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Visio, Exp Design, and printable templates to facilitate different stages of the web design process.
Navicat for MySQL
Navicat for MySQL is an interface for working with MySQL databases, including importing data from CSV or Excel, exporting, reporting, querying, and for developing scripts etc, and general database exploration Navicat for MySQL can also be used with MariaDB databases
Scholarpress Vitaware
ScholarPress Vitaware enables you to build a CV in Wordpress using Zotero.
Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system. Public Knowledge Project (the sponsor of OJS) is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing
Open Harvester Systems
The Open Harvester Systems is a free metadata indexing system that allowers users to create a searchable index of the metadata from Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant archives, such as sites using Open Journal Systems (OJS) or Open Conference Systems (OCS). It can harvest OAI metadata in a variety of schemas (including unqualified DC, the PKP (Open Journal Systems/Open Conference Systems) Dublin Core extension, MODS, and MARCXML).
ConfTool
ConfTool is a conference management system that helps users register participants, submit and review contributions, and schedule the conference program. Non-commercial events with less than 150 participants can request a free license. The paid ConfTool Pro version includes additional features like bidding for reviews, assignment to reviewers based on biddings and topics, paper downloading by reviewers, bulk mailing, and data export.
SEASR
SEASR provides an environment for developing data flows that ingest data, process it through a series of transformations and analytics, and send the data to a results viewer.
Wordle
A simple word cloud generator with customizable font and color options. Word clouds are generated by pasting text into a box, or by entering the URL of any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed.
cue.language
cue.language is a Java library that has tokenizing (words/sentences/ngram), string counting, language guessing, and stop word detection capabilities.
CulturalAnalytics
CulturalAnalytics is an R package containing functions for statistical analysis and plotting of image properties, including statistics such as the standard deviation and mean in the RGB and HSV color spaces, image entropy and histograms in greyscale (intensity) and color, and for plotting color clouds and image scatter charts.
TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research)
The TAPoR Portal is an online environment where users can keep track of texts they want to study (uploaded or available online), learn about and try different tools, and run tools on texts.
MONK workbench
The MONK workbench provides 525 works of American literature from the 18th and 19th centuries, and 37 plays and 5 works of poetry by William Shakespeare, along with tools to enable literary research through the discovery, exploration, and visualization of patterns. Users affiliated with CIC (Big Ten) schools can access a larger data set that includes about a thousand works of British literature from the 16th through the 19th century, provided by The Text Creation Partnership (EEBO and ECCO) and ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey Nineteenth-Century Fiction).
MONK Project
MONK is a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study.
Abbot
Abbot is a tool for undertaking large-scale conversion of XML document collections in order to make them interoperable with one another. In particular, Abbot can make one or more collections conform to a designated schema (including a schema used to define one of the collections). By default, Abbot converts documents into TEI Analytics -- a TEI subset designed for text analysis applications.
Voyeur Tools
Voyeur is a web-based text analysis environment where users can apply a wide variety of tools to any text they import.
HyperPo
HyperPo is a user-friendly text exploration and analysis program that allows users to import texts or use texts available online (in English or French), and provides frequency lists of characters, words and series of words, color-coding to indicate repetition, KWIC, co-occurrence and distribution lists, and the ability to simultaneously compare data from multiple texts.
MALLET
MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.
Skim
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taking software, with different colors of highlighting, annotation, sticky notes, numerous export formats and searching and filtering notes.
Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)
The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is concept mapping software that can integrate with multiple repositories to pull in, organize, and analyze data. Multiple features for advanced management of digital resources for teaching, learning, and research.
Github
GitHub is a web-based repository service which offers the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of GIT with a graphical user interface, desktop, and mobile integration. It also provides collaboration tools such as access control, wikis, task management, code review, bug tracking, and feature requests. It offers free accounts, often used to host opensource software projects, and private (paid) repositories. Projects on GitHub can be accessed and manipulated using the git command-line interface and all of the standard git commands work with it. GitHub also allows registered and non-registered users to browse public repositories on the site. Multiple desktop clients have also been created by GitHub and other third parties which integrate with the platform. GitHub is mainly used for code but can also be used for non-code files, it supports the following formats and features:
- 3D render files
- Photoshop's native PSD format can be previewed and compared to previous versions of the same file.
- Nested task-lists
- Documentation and wikis
- Small websites can be hosted from public repositories on GitHub. The URL format is http://projectname.github.io.
- Issue tracking (including feature requests)
- Visualization of geospatial data
- Gantt charts
Image Map Tool
Image Map Tool allows you to upload an image (or specify the URL of an image found online) and turn it into a clickable image map.
ICE (Integrated Content Environment)
Integrated Content Environment (ICE) was an open source project of the Learning Resources Development (LRD) unit at the University of Southern Queensland. The content management system allowed users to convert content authored in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Writer into self-contained course websites using the IMS format. The ICE authoring environment enabled:
- Basic generic formatting of a document using styles for headings and other structural elements
- Pedagogical elements such as learning outcomes, lists of readings and activities
- Piece-by-piece course construction with immediate feedback about the web and print views
- Modular collaborative and distributed authoring
- Revision control
- Content reuse
- Basic print and web/CD publishing under author control
- Common/generic content
Beautiful Soup
Beautiful Soup is a library, written in the Python programming language, for pulling specific pieces of data out of HTML and XML files. It is especially suitable when working with data files that aren't well-formed, or are otherwise difficult to parse. Saves programmers hours or days of work on quick-turnaround screen scraping projects.
Calibre
Calibre is a free and open source ebook library management application, including options for syncing to devices and converting between a large number of formats. Calibre also has a built-in e-book editor for EPUB and AZW3 formats.
FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager
Windows .NET based open source Digital Asset Management solution designed for medium size preservation, cataloguing, media archiving and batch transcoding.
GDAL
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a translator library for vector and raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
EndNote
EndNote is a reference management tool developed by Thomson Reuters that allows users to
- Search databases right within EndNote
- Collect full-text PDFs in one click
- Organize references
- Organize, rename, annotate, search and open PDFs
- Sync desktop and online libraries
- Build and format bibliographies
- Write, polish and publish
- Share research with colleagues and team members
- Network and collaborate privately with your own team, or openly with the wider research community
Text Fixer
Text Fixer allows users to copy and paste a Word document into a box and convert it to clean HTML.
Word2cleanHTML
Word2cleanHTML allows users to copy and paste a Word document into a text box, and convert it to clean HTML. Additional options include removing empty paragraphs, replacing non-ascii with HTML entities, replacing smart quotes, indenting with tabs, and replacing non-breaking spaces with ordinary spaces.
epub-tools
epub-tools is a collection of Python tools for generating and managing epub documents from Word, RTF, DocBook, TEI and FictionBook.
Mercury Amira
Mercury Amira is a multifaceted tool that allows for integration, manipulation, and visualisation of large sets of data. Automatic and interactive segmentation tools support processing of 3D image data. Features:
- One platform for visualizing, analyzing and presenting
- Very large data sets are easily accessible with specific readers
- C++ coding wizard for technical extension and customization
EATS
The Entity Authority Tool Set (EATS) is a web application for recording, editing, using and displaying authority information about entities. It is designed to allow multiple authorities to each maintain their own independent data, while operating on a common base so that information about the same entity is all in one place. EATS also comes with client tools for automatically looking up entities in a text by name and adding appropriate TEI markup. Features:
- A web API for importing and exporting entity data
- Robust searching with support for variant name forms
- Support for exporting entity data in a variety of formats
QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress desktop publishing software is commonly used to create page layouts for a variety of print publications such as books, newspapers, magazines, posters and brochures. Similar in function to InDesign, the main differences are Quark's unique features for exporting documents as interactive webpages as well as its widespread use by printers, typesetters and page designers. Features:
- Enables the production of HTML and XML content without the need to convert or refine documents
- Supports direct PDF importing and outputing according to regulations
- Fully supports Adobe Photoshop files, avoiding complicated and time-consuming conversions
- Uses OpenType and Unicode, making font and character settings easy
- Free TypeTricks XTension locates overset text boxes as well as widows and orphans
- Presents intuitive colour-management tools that includes the unique option of hexachrome printing
- Allows the customisation of line and border dashes and stripes as well as the merging of boxes to generate complex shapes
- Text runaround for hidden layers may be turned off
- Shared Content instantly incorporates any text or graphic changes consistently throughout a project
- XPress Composition Zones allow team members to work simulatenously on a project, with all modifications being updated instantly
- Job jackets keep print job specifications consistent throughout the project, ensuring their clarity and memorability
Solr
Solr is an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. It operates as a standalone full-text search server within an appropriate servlet container, such as Tomcat. Solr uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from virtually any programming language.
ArcExplorer
ArcExplorer is a custom mapping tool that can be used in a web browser. ArcExplorer allows you to perform a range of basic GIS functions such as display, query and retrieve data. Features:
- Display and query a variety of standard data sources including ESRI shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages Images, ArcIMS services
- Pan and zoom through multiple layers and identify, locate, and query geographic and attribute data.
- Symbolize data based on attributes contained in the data layers to create thematic maps.
- Perform basic spatial analysis tasks on the geographic data
- Freely distributable data
Attensity
text analytic and data extraction framework: data and semantic analytics in a suite of business applications.
Wavesurfer
A software tool for the manipulation of audio recordings. Wavesurfer provides basic audio editing function, such as excision, copying, pasting, zero-crossing adjustment, and effects such as fading, normalization, echo, inversion, reversal, replacement with silence, and DC-removal. Features:
- Audio format support, including WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, Ogg/Vorbis, and NIST/Sphere
- Read/write support for HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+, and Phondat transcription formats
- Direct-to-disk playback/recording enabling use of audio recordings larger than available memory
- Plug-in architecture
- built-in script interpreter
IBM InfoSphere
IBM InfoSphere is intended for enterprise-scale data warehouses, delivering access to structured and unstructured information and operational and transactional data.
xMod
xMod is a desktop application which can transform a repository of XML into a completely finished website. The entire process can be setup and run to produce a basic website assuming some prerequisites:
- A set of valid XML files. These would normally comply with a TEI DTD.
- a configuration script that indicates the relationship between files
- A 'personality pack' (CSS and image files) that determine its visual appearance. However if they are not present, the completed website falls back on a default look and feel.
- Batch file processing
- Modular XSLT structure, with special libraries for different transformation scenarios
- Ability to group files for generation of indices at document and intra-document level
ICTA (internet community text analyzer)
Netlytic is a web-based system for automated text analysis and discovery of social networks from electronic communication such as emails, forums, blogs and chats. What can the current version of Netlytic do? Import and clean your data set from an RSS feed, an external database or a text file Find and explore emerging themes of discussions Build and visualize Chain Networks (social networks based on the number of messages exchanged between individuals) and Name Networks (social networks built from mining personal names).
Chicken
Chicken (originally called Chicken of the VNC) is a VNC client, or Virtual Network Computing, that allows you to display and interact with a remote computer while displaying it on a remote screen.
Basis Technology
Basis provides natural language processing technology for the analysis of unstructured multilingual text.
MantisBT
MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system written in the PHP scripting language. The most common use of MantisBT is to track software defects. However, MantisBT is often configured by users to serve as a more generic issue tracking system and project management tool. Features:
- event-driven-plug-in system
- works with MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and IBM DB2 databases
- RSS Feeds
- Customisable workflow
- Wiki integration
- Chat integration
GeoParser
GeoParser is a text analysis tool that may be used to identify and tag references to geographic location in a text resource using Natural Language Processing to analyse the composition of a resource and identifying words that match its geographic database. The approach is useful for processing names that may have one of several locations (e.g. Belfast in Ireland, New Zealand and Canada) and distinguishing names that may be confused with other common words (e.g. Reading in Berkshire and reading as an activity). GeoParser may be used with GeoCrossWalk to tag a place name with full geographical coordinates (e.g. an OS National Grid Reference).
Lextek
Lextec offers a range of services and software for full-text indexing search and retrieval; automatic classification, routing, and filtering electronic text according to user defined profiles.
oXygen XML editor
A cross-platform XML editor that may be used to create and validate XML documents and associated schema. It fully supports XSL (both XSLT and FO), DTD, Schema (Relax RNG and W3C), Database, XQuery and CSS. OXygen XML Editor works with all XML-based technologies, including XML databases, XProc pipelines, and web services and comes with ready-to-use DITA, DocBook, TEI, and XHTML support. Frequently updated and supported, and with a very large set of features, this software tool has proved popular with digital humanists.
MAXQDA
MAXQDA is a tool for qualitative data analysis, evaluation, and text analysis. You can export parts or all data into reports in Word, Excel, XML, or Images. The MAXQDA Multimedia Browser enables to code audio and video files directly without having to create a transcript. You can code your information however you like for easy retrieval and organization.
Exceed
Exceed is a PC X server system which allows for graphical user interface (GUI) interactions with networked computers. Exceed provides data exchange among applications on different platforms including UNIX, Linux, VMS, X Window Based System and IBM mainframes. Enables users to connect Microsoft Windows desktops to a wide variety of X Window-enabled servers and access X applications.
NVivo
NVivo is commercial software for qualitative analysis of unstructured data, in a range of formats and from diverse sources. Enables users to collect, organize, and analyze content from interviews, focus group discussions, surveys, audio, social media, videos, and webpages.
capella-scan
capella-scan can "OCR" music scores from PDF or common image formats and output the results in MusicXML for use with common music editing software.
MMax2
MMax2 is a text annotation tool for creating and visualizing annotations. It has advanced and customizable methods for information and relation visualization. Features:
- Determination of the word class / part of speech (POS) for words in a text
- Determination of word senses, including the disambiguation of homonymous and polysemous words
- Detection of anaphoric expressions and identification of their antecedents
Readware Information Processor
The main programs that comprise the Information processor are called the analyst server and query or knowledge processor. The analyst program can be called from a command line, from an html form, or through a TCP/IP socket protocol. The query processor can be accessed with any browser using HTML commands. It analyzes text and allows the user to search it.
LilyPond
LilyPond is text-based music engraving software, with specific text input conventions.
Text Analysis For Me Too (TAToo)
TAToo is an embeddable Flash widget that displays TAPOR analytics for the page on which it resides.
Wmatrix
Wmatrix is web-based software for corpus analysis and comparison. It provides a web interface to the USAS and CLAWS corpus annotation tools, and standard corpus linguistic methodologies such as frequency lists and concordances. It also extends the keywords method to key grammatical categories and key semantic domains.
Word Hoard
"In the WordHoard environment, texts are annotated or tagged by morphological, lexical, prosodic, and narratological criteria. They are mediated through a 'digital page' or user interface that lets scholarly but non-technical users explore the greatly increased query potential of textual data kept in such a form."
Denemo
Denemo is a music notation editor with a graphical user interface that allows users to enter notation for typesetting by the LilyPond music engraver.
Aruspix
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Twapper Keeper
Twapper Keeper lets users create an archive of tweets based on hashtag, keyword, or person, for them to review online.
Your Twapper Keeper
TwapperKeeper is now called Hootsuite Archives and can be accessed from within Hootsuite.
PhotoScore
PhotoScore takes an image of a music score-- including handwritten scores-- and outputs it in an editable format, including MusicXML.
SmartScore
SmartScore takes an image of a music score and converts it into an editable format, including MusicXML.
LC Newspaper Viewer
The LC Newspaper Viewer is an open-source web application that understands how to model newspaper data created according to a set of technical guidelines, with the goal of publishing an online archive like Chronicling America.
ColorBrewer
ColorBrewer is a web tool for selecting color schemes for thematic maps, most usually for choropleth maps. It includes 35 basic schemes with different numbers of classes for over 250 possible versions. Each scheme has CMYK, RGB, Hex, Lab, and AV3 (HSV) specs for the colors. The software is designed simply to list color specs for a scheme you find useful so you are able to create these colors in the mapping software you are using. It should be noted that ColorBrewer is not mapping software. It is designed specifically for users to look up color sets to use in mapping environments. It does not allow you to read in your own data and it will not open any other geography files.
Silverlight
Dundas
Software for creating data dashboards. Many of the sample galleries portray corporate financial data.
Exhibit 3.0
Exhibit 3.0 is a publishing framework for large scale data-rich interactive Web pages. The beta version is scalable up to 100k items.
Flare
Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel.
GeoCommons
Create and share geo-temporal visualizations. Upload and share data. Offers API.
Firefox
Firefox is a free open source browser with numerous user-contributed plugins.
Papers
Papers helps users collect and curate the research material that they're passionate about. From citations to search, Papers will improve the way users find, organize, read, and cite. Find Federated search across 25+ search engines. From PubMed and Scopus to arXiv and Google Patents. Read Focus on reading with the full-screen reader, which supports highlights, annotations, and tabs. Organize Throw out those folders of uncategorized PDFs and let Papers organize your documents. Cite Citing has never been easier. Format citations in one of 7000+ citation styles. Share Collaborate, share and discover with Papers Online. Providing shared collections and a personal reading list.
Edublogs
Edublogs is an educational blogging service for teachers and students to create, manage, and publish on their own WordPress sites. Provides cloud hosting and a simplified interface, as well as additional account options at the university level.
eXist-db
eXist-db is an open source database management system that stores XML data according to the XML data model and features efficient, index-based XQuery processing.
GPS Visualizer
GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use tool for creating maps from GPS data, driving routes, street addresses or co-ordinates. Data is uploaded into the utility and displayed in a format specified by the user. A wide range of data formats may be uploaded into the tool, including .GPX, .KML and .CSV files. Some of the formats in which GPS Visualiser displays the data include Google Maps, Google Earth, SVG drawings, elevation profiles, image files, plain text files or GPX files. The website includes a number of other useful tools: a utility for finding the latitude and longitude of addresses, a tool for converting between GPS file formats) and the ability to look up elevation data, to name a few.
BatchGeo
BatchGeo is an online service that maps address data as points. The cut and paste interface makes it easy to convert a spreadsheet of street addressed into a map can be embedded or downloaded as a KML file. A limited number of addresses can be mapped for free; large files require a subscription.
Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (DeL eTools)
"The Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (VLMA) is an educational tool for collecting and reusing in a structured fashion the online contents of museums and archives with visual components. With VLMA, you can browse and search collections, construct personal collections, export these collections to xml or Impress presentation format, annotate them, and share your collections with other VLMA users."
Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (DeL eTools) on DiRT
Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT)
The Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT) is a free, Web-based system for capturing, archiving and sharing blog posts. Blog posts are acquired via RSS feeds, and stored in a database where they can be accessed and shared by other researchers. Free registration is required.
Google Docs
Google Docs is an online environment for editing and sharing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, drawings, and tables. Google Docs documents can be public or private, or shared with anyone with a Google account, e-mailed, or downloaded in various formats, including conversions to PDF and other formats not identical to the original or to the proprietary format used at creation.
Designated people with whom items are shared can be given permission to comment or edit the files, thus providing a quick way to collaborate on creating and editing documents and presentations.
Formspring
Formspring allows users to create and answer questionnaires either within the web interface or using an iOS app.
Freebase
Freebase "is an open, Creative Commons Attribution (aka CC-BY) licensed collection of structured data," and a "platform for accessing and manipulating that data" via API. Almost 40 million entities and assertions about those entities are stored within a graph database. The database was built by pulling in open data and relies on community contribution to stay updated. Freebase is part of the semantic web and emits Linked Open Data (via RDF) for all its entities.
ScrapBook
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Major features are: * Save Web page * Save snippet of Web page * Save Web site * Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks * Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection * Editing of the collected Web page * Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera's Notes
Survey Monkey
Survey Monkey is a web-based survey creation and distribution site, with free and paid plans that allow users to create surveys and collect responses through a link, email, Facebook, or being embedded in a website or blog. Survey Monkey also allows for the collect and analysis of data.
Transformer
The Transformer is a tool designed for aligned transcribed linguistic data that can convert data between a variety of formats, as well as organize, search and display the data.
Wufoo
Wufoo is an online form builder with built-in analytics. Free users are allowed to create up to three forms with up to 10 fields.
VoiceWalker
VoiceWalker has fine-grained controls for playing back audio and video to facilitate transcription.
Zoomerang
Zoomerang is online survey software; paid plans include analysis tools. Zommerang is now part of Survey Monkey.
Bamboo Content Interoperability Hub
The Bamboo Content Interoperability Hub (CI gub) is an effort to largely automate the time-consuming process of downloading and compiling data from different repositories and archives and standardizing some of the format differences. When scholars browse the repositories whose content they want (and have rights to) use, they can bookmark it at the proper level of granularity in Zotero, and import those Zotero bookmarks into a workspace integrated with the CI hub. The CI hub then retrieves the data, and normalizes it to a certain extent so that data from different sources can be used together. The CI hub also offers a "preview" tool to see what data has been ingested, before that data is handed off to the environment where the scholar will use it. The CI hub currently has adaptors to draw data from TCP-EEBO/ECO, Hathi Trust, Perseus, and AustLit.
jotform
Jotform allows users to create web forms (for surveys, etc.) using a drag-and-drop interface.
Doodle
Doodle is an online scheduling tool to help collaborators find a common time to meet. An organizer can set up a number of proposed meeting times and send a survey to participants who indicate availability. The free version offers scheduling and the option for a MeetMe page, which allows users to see your available time slots; paid versions include options such as calendar integration, automatic reminders, SSL encryption, and seeing who is missing. Private plans are $39 a year and business/group plans vary in price, which is dependent on the number of Doodle organizers. Ideal for team work planning and easy to use.
ECHODamp
ECHODamp is a multi-channel audio mixer and echo controller designed primarily for the High-Bandwidth Musical Video-teleconference environment and is meant for audio-engineers and musicians to share high quality audio in video-teleconferencing.
Skype
Skype allows free voice and video computer-to-computer calls, and calls to phone numbers for a fee. Video is only available for person-to-person calls, but multiple users can join a voice call. Skype can be used for free by educators in the classroom: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/complete-guide-to-use-of-skype-in.html
Versioning Machine
The Versioning Machine displays multiple versions of text encoded according to TEI Guidelines and allows for comparisons of annotation and introductory materials. This is a text editor and allows editors "to immediately see the consequences of their editorial decisions." This tool does not appear to have been updated since 2011.
Virtual Lightbox
The Virtual Lightbox enables online image comparison, with features like an image-centric whiteboard. There are two versions, application and applet, which have different functionalities.
EXMARaLDA
EXMARaLDA (Extensible Markup Language for Discourse Annotation) is a system of concepts, data formats and tools for the computer assisted transcription and annotation of spoken language, and for the construction and analysis of spoken language corpora.
The Field Linguist’s Toolbox
The Field Linguist's Toolbox is Windows software for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing and interlinearizing text.
Bamboo Person Service
The Bamboo Person Service can help scholars access all the resources (tools, collections, and shared data) they have permissions for due to their institutional affiliations, scholarly society membership, association with research groups, etc. By connecting accounts from these different groups (e.g. a Google account for a research group, a university ID, and a generic username for a scholarly society), scholars will be able to use resources provided by any of these groups, in any work space or tool environment within the Bamboo ecosystem. Where previously research groups would have to agree on a single environment to work collaboratively and share their data, the Bamboo Person Service can allow group leaders to indicate which scholars in the Bamboo Person Service should have access to a set of data, which will then become accessible for each of those people in the environment of their choosing. The Bamboo Person Service also provides mechanisms for making contributions to projects easier to document (e.g. to present to tenure and review committees), by keeping track of which individuals are doing curation work on corpora, or contributing entries to Bamboo DiRT. As the Bamboo Person Service develops, it may be integrated with social and scholarly networking sites, to allow scholars to opt into sharing the tools they use, as part of their profile. For tool developers and collection holders, the Bamboo Person Service can reduce the time and development effort that would go into writing custom authentication and authorization, and can facilitate quality control in crowdsourced projects by keeping track of the curator assessments made about the validity of individual users' additions.
iTunesCyrFix
iTunesCyrFix can convert jibberish text in the title, artist, artist, or other ID3 tags in iTunes (e.g. Ñïëèí) into readable UTF-8 Cyrillic text.
Koha
LibLime Koha is a web-based, open source integrated library system (ILS) that has also been used for virtual library systems (e.g. recreating historic libraries). LibLime Koha offers libraries circulation policies, patron management modules, parent-child relationship for patron records, club and service management features, in-depth "holds" support, single click batch import "undo" option, EzProxy compatibility, self-checkout interface and more.
DownThemAll
DownThemAll is a Firefox plugin that allows users to download all the links or images contained in a webpage.
PDF to Word Converter
The PDF to Word Converter is Windows software that can convert a PDF (with no password protection) to a Word .doc file.
GNU Wget
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
Lemon8-XML
Lemon8-XML helps authors convert scholarly papers from word processor formats (e.g. .doc, .odt) into XML-based formats web-based application designed to make it easier for non-technical editors and authors to convert scholarly papers from typical word-processor editing formats such as MS-Word .DOC and OpenOffice .ODT, into the XML-based publishing layout formats expected by Open Journal Systems.
PDFCreator
PDFCreator is a free PDF creation utility for Windows that includes features for password protection and disabling printing.
Sort My List
Sort My List will alphabetically sort a list of plain text data, and do some simple text reformatting (e.g. going from CSV to TSV)
LibraryLookup
Library Lookup is a bookmarklet that can look up whether a book is available in the user's local library, based on information about that book on a separate website (e.g. Amazon). Supported library systems are listed here.
Transformer
Transformer can load Unicode-encoded text files and transform them in various ways, including trying to rescue text files created in word processing programs that no longer run (e.g. old versions of Word.)
Zamzar
Zamzar converts between a wide variety of formats (including support for word processing documents, audio, images, video, and ebooks) and emails the result to the user.
Pipes
Yahoo Pipes allows users to combine, filter, translate, and geocode data from RSS feeds, JSON, KML, or other similar formats, and power widgets/badges using that data.
BASE
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is a search engine for academic open access web resources that searches materials stored in OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) enabled repositories.
DeeperWeb
DeeperWeb is a Firefox add-on that adds a tag cloud to Google search results.
Google Books
Google Books provides full, free PDF scans (and web-viewable versions) of public domain books and magazines, free previews of some books and magazines under copyright, and the option to purchase digital editions of available items to save and read on Google Play, their e-reading platform. You can also find a local library based on your zip code that has the item available. Reader reviews of the items are available and you can contribute your own. Search for authors, titles, as well as keywords and Google will return results with matches in the title/text of the item. There are permalinks to available pages. Highly useful for finding items that contain your keywords in its text.
PDFmyURL
PDFmyURL converts websites to PDFs. Premium, paid features include watermarks and preference configuration (e.g. paper size, table of contents, disabling/enabling links, etc.)
Pro Tools
Pro Tools is audio creation and production software. With Pro Tools it is possible to compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for pictures and video with out havingto use a variety of software. Features:
- over 70 groundbreaking virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins
- over 8 GB of audio loops
- view, edit, arrange and print MIDI data as music notation
- Supports files up to 4 GB
PDFsam (PDF Split and Merge)
PDFsam can split and merge batches of PDFs.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches books and scholarly articles (and optionally patents, legal opinions, and legal journals).
Pdftk (PDF Toolkit)
The PDF Toolkit allows users to merge, split, rotate, decrypt/encrypt, compress/uncompress, and repair PDFs.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system running on all major platforms. Support for native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and ODBC among others. Features:
- fully ACID compliant
- full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages)
- includes most SQL 2008 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP
- supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video
- multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC)
- Highly customisable
LibX
LibX is a Firefox or Chrome plugin that enables direct access to the user's library's resources, including support for Google Scholar, CiteULike, COinS, and xISBN.
Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk 3ds Max (formerly 3D Studio MAX) is an open source graphics software tool used by video game developers, motion picture studios and architectural visualisers for modelling and animation projects. One of the most advanced 3D modelling tools in the industry, 3ds Max has been utilised by many CGI-animated films such as Avatar and 2012 to generate computer graphics alongside live acting. Features:
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Originally developed for text manipulation, it is now used for a wide range of tasks including graphics programming, system administration, network programming, applications that require database access and CGI programming on the Web. Features:
- C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed
- Powerful text processing facilities
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Support for multiple programming paradigms
- Reference counting memory management
TextPad
TextPad is a text editor. It may be used as a basic text editor, web page editor, or as part of a programming IDE. Features:
- Universal Naming Convention (UNC) style names support
- Files up to the limits of 32-bit virtual memory can be edited
- Spell checker with dictionaries in 10 languages
- Multi file editing support
- Commands to change case, and transpose words, characters and lines
- Commands to indent blocks of text, split or join lines, and insert whole files
- Change tracking
Apache Subversion Version System (SVN)
Apache Subversion Version System (SVN) is an open source version control system. Access and revision to objects are carefully controlled, to prevent unauthorized access and alteration. Developers use SVN to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Their Vision:
Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.Features:
- Version support for all files and directories in repository, enabling administrator to track changes that have occurred and obtain earlier versions of files
- Renamed/copied/moved/removed files retain full revision history
- Free-form versioned metadata
- Atomic commits
- Merge tracking
- File locking
- Changelists to organize commits into commit groups
- Preservation of file attributes, such as executable and read/write status
- Apache network server support with WebDAV/DeltaV protocol
- Write-through proxy using WebDAV
- Interactive conflict resolution
- Repository read-only mirroring
- Parsable output, including XML log output
- Full MIME support - users can view or change the MIME type of each file, with the software knowing which MIME types can have their differences from previous versions shown
XMetal
XML-based software application for structured authoring and editing documents and content collaboration. Features:
- Spellchecker, thesaurus, track changes and other word processing functionality
Captivate
Captivate is software for recording audio and video of a user's screen. Users can import PowerPoint slides and add rich media, simulations, and quizzes, and publish them to learning management systems that support the SCORM standard.
CamStudio
CamStudio is free and open source screencasting software that saves the video as AVI files, though a Flash converter is included.
Camtasia
Camtasia is Mac/Windows software for recording screencasts and editing video. Videos can be sent directly to YouTube or integrated with Google Drive. Camtasia is the high end of a suite of screen capture products. SnagIt is a cheaper alternative with fewer features. Jing, the most basic of the TechSmith screen capture products, is free.
Capture Fox
Capture Fox is a Firefox plugin that allows the user to record their voice and their sccreen.
Boxer
Boxer is an easy-to-use DOS emulator for Mac OSX intended specifically for playing old DOS games.
Scholarometer
Scholarometer is a browser plugin for Firefox and Chrome that can help contribute to citation and impact analysis.
Search Pigeon
Search Pigeon allows users to search Open Access journals and research tools for the humanities.
WorldCat
WorldCat can simultaneously search the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
Paletton (Color Scheme Designer 4)
Paletton (a.k.a. Color Scheme Designer 4) presents the user with a color wheel and several color scheme styles:
- Mono
- Complement
- Triad
- Tetrad
- Free style
BBEdit
A text editor designed for use by software developers and web designers to edit, search, and manipulate text. BBEdit provides native support for several programming and scripting languages. Third party custom modules are available, created by users, to handle languages that are not supported in the native application. Features:
- Multi-file text searching
- Scripting
- Syntax highlighting for ANSI C, C++, CSS, Fortran (through Fortran 95), HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Object Pascal, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Rez, Ruby, Setext, SQL, Tcl, Tex, UNIX shell scripts, XML and YAML
Zoomify
A suite of products developed for web designers that may be used to convert large images into a form that can be zoomed and panned. Zoomify enables large images to be viewed and manipulated, without an increase in server load or download time. It converts large images stored in raster formats (e.g. TIFF, JPEG) into a set of pieces or 'tiles' The individual pieces contain sub-sections of the image at different resolutions or levels of zoom, which are combined to create a type of mosaic. Features:
- Enables access to high quality still images without an increase in server load
IBM Many Eyes
A variety of visualisation tools are available for use with existing datasets, or upload your own.
SARIT
SARIT (Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts" is a collection of electronic editions of Sanskrit and other Indian-language texts that have dated and embedded notes about their change history. You can perform a text search, retrieval and analysis of works in SARIT, as well as download all the texts and convert them to PDF, HTML, etc.
CHET-C
CHET-C, or Chapel Hill Electronic Text-Converter, is a browser based software tool designed to convert digital texts that employ standard epigraphic conventions such as the Leiden sigla into EpiDoc-compliant XML files. The tool can be accessed online at http://www.stoa.org/projects/epidoc/stable/chetc-js/chetc.html. Fragments of epigraphic text using standard sigla (eg Leiden convention markup) are pasted into the tool and Epidoc compliant XML is generated. Prior versions exist (MSAccess + VBA and Java, both now deprecated) for use by those without stabel web access or who wish to customise the underlying regular expressions to process non standard sigla
3DVIA Virtools
A software tool for the creation of 3D interactive environments. It may be used to model and interact with physical objects that currently or have previously existed in the real world, or create virtual environments that have not previously encountered. VirTool player software is available for Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS X, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360.
Asset Bank
A digital asset management system for the storage, management and delivery of raster images, audiovisual content, documents and other digital asset types. The software provides limited eCommerce functionality for use by institutions that wish to use the system to sell digital products. It may be installed in-house on a Windows/Linux/Unix system or hosted on a system operated by the developers. Asset storage can be customized to suit the needs of your project on server hard disk, network or SAN, cloud storage via Amazon or Rackspace, via Box accounts, or stored as BLOBs in your database. Pricing quotes are available through the product website. Asset Bank offers active customer support including guided demos, customized quotes, monthly webinars, a knowledge base, in depth documentation, and a support ticket system. This resource is ideal for large Enterprises and supports multi-lingual configuration, organisational units, and LDAP integration. Features:
- Image versioning
- User-driven rating system
- Automatic generation of thumbnails and preview images
- Rapid downloading of files in a range of formats
- Search or browse by keywords and popularity
- Monitor & control asset usage
- Brand guidelines to provide consistent access to project/organization logos, colours, etc
- Metadata batch edit
- Date validation
- Metadata import in XML or other delimited formats
- configure and customize almost all aspects of the interface
- Document Editor Plug-in for desktop applications used to edit common file types (.doc, Photoshop & InDesign file formats)
- Video Keywording module allows you to link keyword metadata to points of time in a video asset
- Presentation Builder module maintains project presentation slides in Asset Bank, creates master presentation sets including slides that can be shared and reused
Pie-Slice
A statistical package that may be used to compare quantified assemblages of broken and incomplete objects, such as ceramics, glass and bones. Pie-Slice uses Estimated Vessel Equivalent (EVE) as a base form of measurement, in which each measurable fraction is scored as a fraction of a complete vessel. It also trials the use of a new statistical transformation - the pseudo-count transformation - which converts EVEs into Pottery Information Equivalents (PIEs). The latter enables assemblages to be compared using techniques such as log-linear and correspondence analyses. The resultant output is visualised through the use of GNUPlot. Features:
- User-defined variables that may be tailored to specifics of the object being described
- Visual depiction of the relationship between assemblage variables (e.g. pottery forms), which may be used to evaluate their statistical significance
epcEdit
A structured text editor that may be used to create, edit, validate and convert XML and SGML documents. EpcEdit contains an integrated validating parser, an editor for CALS and HTML tables, an attribute editor and an element manipulation tool. Features:
- XML/SGML parser with full support of Oasis SGML-Open catalog files
- Document structure mapping, enabling users to visualise the construction of an XML/SGML document without a DTD
- Attribute editor that supports conformance checking of attribute values and has special support for ID and IDREF attributes
- Configurable user interface that may be integrated with other tools through use of Tcl programming language
Xalan
Xalan is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. It implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0. Features:
- Conversion between structured markup formats
- Stylesheet validation
Fedora Commons
Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) was originally developed by researchers at Cornell University as an architecture to store, manage, and access digital content in the form of digital objects. Fedora defines a set of abstractions for expressing digital objects, asserting relationships among digital objects, and linking behaviors to digital objects. Developed by the community and stewarded by Duraspace — a nonprofit involved with open source technology projects including VIVO and DSpace — Fedora Commons implements the Fedora abstractions in an open source, modular repository system for managing and disseminating digital content. Fedora Commons is widely used in the academic sector as a basis for digital libraries, archives, or repository systems. Its worldwide installed user base includes academic and cultural heritage organizations, universities, research institutions, university libraries, national libraries, government agencies, and more.
- Management and maintenance of any digital content type and of metadata about content in any format
- Scale to millions of objects
- Access data via APIs (REST/SOAP)
- Provide RDF search (SPARQL)
- Rebuilder utility (for disaster recovery and data migration)
- Entire repository can be rebuilt from the digital object and content files
- Content model architecture (define "types" of objects by their content)
- Many storage options (database and file systems)
- JMS messaging (your apps can "listen" to repository events)
- Web-based administrator GUI (low-level object editing)
- OAI-PMH provider service
- GSearch (fulltext) search service
- Multiple, customer driven front-ends
SoundScriber
A software application for the playback of audio recordings. SoundScriber offers specific functionality for researchers that wish to transcribe a recording. It was originally developed for use in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) project and released for use by academics performing similar work. Features:
- Audio playback via installed audio codecs (e.g. Wav, MP3)
- Variable speed playback
- 'Walking' support – playback of a small stretch of an audio stream several times to ensure accurate transcription is made, followed by an advancement to a new section of audio.
TurnTool
TurnTool is a suite of tools that enable 3D models to be created and viewed in a low-bandwidth environment. The suite consists of two components: a TurnToolBox plug-in for integration with 3D Studio Max, Autodesk Viz, Cinema4D and ArchiCAD that allows these software applications to export objects into the TurnTool format; and a TurnTable Viewer plug-in that is able to recreate the 3D model in a windowed environment or web browser. Features:
- 3D modelling
- ActiveX viewer
- Low bandwidth use
Anastasia
A software application that enables a user to search, manipulate and publish large SGML/XML documents. Anastasia was developed within an academic context to enable the manipulation of a single, large mark-up documents or a set of documents. It utilises two methods to interpret the structure of a mark-up document: First, it uses pattern-matching algorithms to process a hierarchical tree, similar to other XML software applications; Second, it interprets the document structure as a series of sequential 'events' which must be processed. The latter method, it is indicated, enables the application to perform processing activities that are difficult or impossible using the traditional approach. For example, it is able to build a view of textual content across element divisions and in different types of hiearchical structure and to allow the easy publication of user defined extracts from complex documents. Features:
- Pattern-matching algorithms to process a hierarchical tree
- Event-driven analysis to manipulate information stored across element boundaries and contained in semi-structured or unstructured text mark-up
MySQL
A software application that enables relational databases to be created, managed and queried. The database management system enables multiple users to access a database through an appropriate interface. As an open source tool, MySQL underpins a number of free software projects, such as WordPress, phpBB and other software built on a LAMP infrastructure. Although widely used, there are a number of performance issues that limit its use in some environments. For example, it is unable to use multiple CPU cores to process a single query, potentially limiting its use as a data warehouse. Features:
- X/Open XA distributed transaction processing (DTP) support
- Connector/ODBC enables connection to a MySQL server using the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API
- Connector/NET enables developers to create .NET applications that use data stored in a MySQL database
XSugar
XSugar is a proof of concept tool for mapping textual content between a flat file schema and XML format. It performs statistical analysis to establish if transformations between the two formats are bi-directional, enabling content that has been converted into an XML format to be re-exported to the original flat file structure, or vice-versa. To validate the conversion, a schema must exist for source and destination formats, e.g. a bespoke XFlat encoded XML document that contains a definition of the structure of a class of flat files, an XML schema. Features:
- Bi-directional content conversion
- Support for any flat file structure that has been document in an appropriate XFlat format.
- Support for variety of XML-based formats
Adobe After Effects
After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software. After Effects allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2d and 3d space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation. The latest version, CS5.5, is the twentieth generation in the product line. Features:
- Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
- Searchable timelines and projects
- Independent keyframing of x, y, z values
- Cartoon effect
- layer-oriented
- Animate and composite flexibly in 2D and 3D
- Create and animate text and vector graphics
- Choose among extensive visual effects
- Fluidly key, mask, rotoscope, and paint composites
- Take control of motion and keyframes
- Automate with scripting
- Work with 32-bit audio
- Gain professional results for every media type
- Paint and clone with nondestructive vector brushes
- Save time with efficient tools and a customizable interface
Adobe InDesign
InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. The latest version, InDesign CS5.5 , is the twelfth generation in the product line. Features:
- Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
- Dynamic cross-reference support that updates content when moved within a document
- Spread rotation
- Smart guides (Quickly align space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides.)
- Conditional text (Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.)
- Smart Text Reflow (Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference.)
- Live Preflight
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. Adobe Creative Suite products, including Illustrator, have recently moved to a subscription based service model. Adobe Illustrator CS6 was the last version released on disk. Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud is now available starting at $19.99/month. Features of Adobe Illustrator CC include:
- Use powerful creative tools
- Boost productivity
- Deliver virtually anywhere
- Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
- Raster and type-in vector format support
- Mobile and tablet suport
- Cloud storage
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is a media management application used for organizing, browsing, locating, and viewing creative assets. It was provided as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2, and is now in version CS5 Features:
- Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software (except for the standalone version of Adobe Acrobat 8)
- Extensible through use of Javascript
OmniPage
A software tool capable of performing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) upon a set of images. It achieves the task by analysing pixel sets and in an image and cross-matching them to a dictionary of words. Omnipage automates large sections of the digitisation process enabling physical objects to be scanned, processed using the OCR software and exported to a document file format. Later versions of the software incorporate image enhancement features to improve scan quality (and recognition results) and better support for complex page layouts and forms. Features:
- Integration with scanning software
- Maintain layout of captured document
ImageMagik
A software suite for displaying, converting and editing still images stored in a raster image format. Image manipulation may be performed via the command line, API libraries, or through a simply graphical user interface. Features:
- Software control through API and command line
- Format conversion
- Image transformation
- Transparency support
- Format identification
- Text to image conversion
- Read, process, or write mega-, giga-, or tera-pixel image sizes
- Distributed pixel cache
- Perceptual hash
Pycoon
A Python-based XML web publishing framework which enables dynamic pipelining of XSLT transformations. Data is processed by an XML pipeline composed of several WSGI applications and middleware components. Features:
- Apache Cocoon Sitemap 1.0 compatible
- WSGI modularity
- URI pattern matching
Pattern
Pattern is a Python web mining module with tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data visualization (graph networks).
digilib
Digilib is a web based client/server technology for images. The image content is processed on-the-fly by a Java Servlet on the server side so that only the visible portion of the image is sent to the web browser on the client side. It supports a wide range of image formats and viewing options on the server side while only requiring an internet browser with javascript and a low bandwidth internet connection on the client side. digilib enables very detailed work on an image as required by scientists with elaborate zoom features like an option to show images on the screen in their original size. digilib facilitates cooperation of scientists over the internet and novel uses of source material by image annotations and stable references that can be embedded in URLs. digilib is used in the ALCATRAZ framework of image, text and annotation tools and many other projects.
Collation Works
CollateX-based text collation client. CollateX, run on an server independent from the URL above, is a powerful, fully automatic, baseless text collation engine for multiple witnesses. A second collation technique, ncritic, provides a slightly different baseless text collation. Each engine complements each other nicely. The user can use different files, even URLs, then output the result in GraphML, TEI, JSON, HTML, or SVG. Fuzzy matching is an option.
iShowU
iShowU is publishing and recording software for Mac. It enables you to record audio and video on your screen, capture full screen shots, and program recording settings.
Jing
Jing allows you to take screenshots, record screencasts, and instantly share information. Jing is the low end of a suite of screen capture products. SnagIt provides a few extra features (such as saving videos in formats other than SWF) for a small fee. Camtasia is at the high end, with full video editing capabilities.
ScreenFlow
ScreenFlow is a screen recording software for the Mac that allows you to record, edit and share audio and video on your computer.
Snapz Pro X
Snapz Pro X allows you to record anything on your computer screen. You can save audio or video as a QuickTime® movie or screenshot that can be shared.
TipCam
TipCam is a screen recording software for Windows, which allows you to record images and audio on your screen, and upload to YouTube. Latest version was released in 2008, likely not supported anymore.
WebSlides
WebSlides allows you to convert your bookmarks and feeds to present them as live web pages in an interactive slideshow. Each WebSlide has a unique URL, or comes as a widget. Users may create a guided tour of any website, group course information for students, provide a simple tutorial on any subject, or share images on the web. Additionally, content publishers may use this presentation format for repacking and remixing content.
Wink
Wink is a tutorial and presentation creation software, that allows you to create tutorials on how to use software, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements, and accompanying audio.
BibDesk
BibDesk allows you to edit and manage your bibliography. It keeps track of the bibliographic information, associated files, and web links.
BibMe
BibMe is an automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills information, allowing you to build easily a works cited page. You can download your bibliography in either MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turbian formats.
Screencast-o-matic
A free Java-based online application which allows you to create recordings of your desktop.
ScreenFlick
ScreenFlick enables large-resolution recording, allowing you to make videos of screencasts with audio.
Screenr
Screenr is a free web-based screen recording program that allows you to create and share screencasts on the web. You can record on a Mac or PC, and the recordings play everywhere, including iPhones. Very easy to use.
Purdue OWL
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material. As a member of the Writing Lab community, you can find information to assist with various writing projects. Teachers and trainers can also use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction. Links should be attributed to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL). No commercial use of the Purdue OWL is permitted.
Bibus
Bibus is a bibliographic and reference management software. As with other such tools, Bibus allows one to search, edit, and sort bibliographic records. In addition, Bibus contains features that makes it unique among open source and even commercial bibliographic databases:
- Hierarchical organization of the references with user defined keys
- Designed for multiuser environments
- Database sharing among an "unlimited" number of users
- Individual classification for each user
- Ability to define read-only and read-write users
- Live queries; that is searches that update as the database changes
- Online PubMed queries
- Online eTBLAST queries
- Insertion of references and formatting of bibliographies into three widely used Word Processors (LibreOffice.org,OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word)
- Foreign language support through Unicode and gettext. As of version 1.4, Bibus is available in English, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish.
Bookends
Reference management entails the collection, annotation, curation, and citation of published information. Bookends simplifies these tasks. Bookends can perform Internet searches to retrieve references and associated pdfs or web pages, or immediately find and import references for which you already have the pdf. Versatile groups (static, smart, and virtual), term lists (keywords, authors, etc.), reference cross-linking (links), multiple notecards per reference, PDF annotation, tag clouds, and instantaneous live searches help organize and find information in your personal collection. Highly configurable displays let you view the reference information and attachments the way you want. Scan your word processor manuscripts to create publication-ready documents complete with bibliographies and footnotes. Sync references and pdfs in your library with your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad (requires separate purchase of Bookends On Tap from the iTunes App Store). Create and edit PDF annotations and highlighted text, which instantly appear as Bookends notecards. And much more. Compatible with Microsoft Word, Mellel (including Live Bibliography, updating of citations and bibliographies as you type), Apple Pages '08, ’09, and (provisionally) Pages 5, Nisus Writer Pro, and OpenOffice 3.
BibText
Citeline
Citeline was a web-based service that assisted with the publishing of bibliographies and citation collections. Users could create interactive exhibits and share your data online. Additionally, users could also import Zotero and BibTex files. Citeline was one of MIT's Simile project that has since been retired.
JabRef
JabRef is a graphical application for managing bibliographical databases. JabRef is designed specifically for BibTeX bases, but can import and export many other bibliographic formats. JabRef runs on all platforms and requires Java 1.6 or newer.
myPeers
myPeers is a scholars social network that allows you follow your peers' research, get notified when their papers are published, and have access to their published work.
NoodleTools
MLA, APA, Chicago / Turabian and most-common Bluebook forms as an integrated citing and note-taking platform for individual or group projects. Prompts for analysis of source types and is unique in offering teaching support and personal help on any citation. Instructor / librarian view allows teacher to comment on work-in-progress providing just-in-time feedback in-context. Archives copies of web pages and pdfs which can be annotated. Dashboard provides long-term access to a portfolio of work. NoodleTools MLA Lite is a free version with a Bibliography component and limited set of citation types appropriate for elementary or middle-school students.
Qigga
Qiqqa is a research management software that allows you to organize large numbers of papers; find new papers to read and new information about papers you already have; review materials and create annotation reports. Qiqqa has several PDF tools that also allow you to convert from PDFs to text, and use a clipboard function to cut and paste text into your document.
Referencer
Referencer is a Gnome application to organize documents or references. You can also generate a BibTeX bibliography file.
RefWorks
RefWorks allows users to create personal databases and use them for a variety of research activities. References are quickly and easily imported from text files or online databases. The databases can then be used to manage, store, and share the information. Users can automatically insert references from their database into their papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds. RefWorks allows you to…
- Organize and create a personal database online – no more index cards to write out and organize. Everything is done automatically as you import the reference into RefWorks.
- Format bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds – this saves hours of typing time and decreases the number of errors in creating tedious bibliographies. Easily make changes to your paper and reformat in seconds.
- Import references from a variety of databases using the already created Import Filters.
- Manage Alerts – RefWorks has incorporated a RSS feed reader to allow you to establish links to your favorite RSS feeds and import data from those feeds directly into RefWorks.
- Searching your RefWorks database is fast and easy – RefWorks automatically creates author, descriptor and periodical indexes when importing so you just click on the word to perform the retrieval. Use Quick Search to search all fields for the most comprehensive results or Advanced Search to narrow your search to specific terms and fields.
Sente
Sente is a full-featured reference manager for Macs, iPads and iPhones. It helps users build, organize and use very large research libraries so they will always be in control of their research literature.
- gather
- organize
- read, annotate, take notes
- sync
- cite
iSpring
iSpring is an authoring tool that allows you to create online presentations with slides synced with audio and video narration. You can create quizzes and courses, add attachments and web links, and integrate these courses with BlackBoard LMS. Additionally, you can download iSpring Free which allows you to convert PowerPoint to Flash for free to view your presentations online.
IssueLab
IssueLab is an online research archive in the nonprofit sector. In addition to archiving social policy research by nonprofits at no cost, IssueLab distributes this research online with a broad audience via e-newsletters, RSS feeds, and social media. Additionally, IssueLab advocates for the broad use of open licenses and the overall adoption of open access standards, to allow people to find and reuse nonprofit materials.
Skitch
Skitch is a free screenshot editing utility for OS X, iOS, Windows 8, and Android. The app permits the user to add shapes and text to an image, and then share it online using Evernote. Images can also be exported to various image formats. Originally developed by Plasq, Skitch was acquired by Evernote on August 18, 2011.
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a collaborative slide show that allows people to navigate slides and comment in five different ways (using voice, text, audio, or video). VoiceThreads can be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites, and exported to play as archival movies.
VUVOX
VUVOX ("visual voice") is an easy to use production and sharing service that allows you to instantly create and share stories. You can create, mix, and personalize media - videos, photos and music - to share with others.
Writeboard
Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents. You can use Writeboard on your own or collaboratively, to revise and organize documents, compare different versions of documents, and collaborate on materials. It's no longer possible to create new Writeboars on Writeboard.com. Existing Writeboards are still available on Writeboard.com and Writeboards are available as a tool in Basecamp (https://basecamp.com/).
Mellel
Mellel is a word processor for the Mac OS. Use Mellel for writing and designing documents.
OpenOffice
OpenOffice is an open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases.
TextExpander
Save time and effort with TextExpander! Whether it's a simple email signature or several paragraphs of a standard response, you'll love how easy it is to use TextExpander to avoid typing the same thing over and over.
- Insert standard greetings, text, and signatures, including formatted text and pictures
- Save keystrokes by typing short abbreviations to get long snippets
- Correct typos automatically (Add them to your snippet library and/or use one of the included AutoCorrect snippet groups for English, French or German)
- Reposition the cursor in the expanded snippet, or use our new fill-in-the-blank snippets to enter variable data in multiple fields
- Position the cursor wherever you want in your expanded snippet
- Automatically insert clipboard content in a snippet
- Use fill-ins for snippets with multiple options for variable content
- Sync snippets via Dropbox; use snippets on multiple devices (with TextExpander touch)
- Organize snippets into groups
- Search snippets from menu bar or via keyboard shortcut
- Get suggestions of matching abbreviations via keyboard shortcut
- Add snippet groups from external files and online sources HTML, CSS, AutoCorrect, Accented Words, Symbols snippet groups included
- Internet Productivity snippet group (shorten long URLs automatically)
- Insert the current date and time in any format you prefer
- Date/time math (add or subtract years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds from current date and time)
- Print snippets by group
- For programmers, make editor-independent code templates; invoke AppleScripts and shell scripts
WriteRoom
WriteRoom is an alternative to Microsoft Word, that removes distractions on your computer while you're writing. WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment that has certain functions like word count and autosave. WriteRoom for iOS is synced with Dropbox, and your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.
Dragon Dictation
Dragon Dictation is a voice recognition application that allows you to speak and instantly see your text content from email messages to blog posts on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
GoodReader
GoodReader is a PDF reader for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. GoodReader allows you to read anything -- books, movies, maps and images -- on your mobile device.
HearPlanet
HearPlanet is a real-time audio tour guide. This application plays audio tracks based on points of interest surrounding your current location; it pulls from Wikipedia as well as user-created content and other partners. Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android OS.
InstaPaper
Instapaper is a tool to save web pages for reading later. This tool allows you to read on the computer, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Kindle, or on paper.
Instaviz
Instaviz is a pocket whiteboard for the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. You sketch rough shapes and lines, and Instaviz transforms them into laid-out diagrams.
Nature mobile
Nature.com reader apps allow you to read scientific content on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Android. You may browse news and free open access content, save material to read for later, save searches, and access the articles' references. With a subscription you will have full access to their content.
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MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day.
Noter
Noter is a to-do list application for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. You may open up Noter on your iPhone or sync with your computer.
QuickVoice iP
QuickVoice iP is a voice recorder for Mac and Windows, as well as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. You can record voice notes, reminders, dictations, meetings, to do lists and entire lectures.
TitanPad
Collaborators can write and edit a document simultaneously. TitanPad does not currently work with iOS devices like Apple's iPad or iPhone.
Rehearsal Assistant
Rehearsal Assistant is an open source voice/audio recorder. You may organize recordings, record reminders and lists, and annotate events. Though this app is still actively available, it doesn't appear to be regularly updated or offer fixes to current bugs.
Wikidot
Wikidot is a web application service that allows you to create a traditional wiki, forum, or blog. Wikidot is also a large community with an active question and answer forum.
Stanza
Stanza allows you to read books on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Stanza supports HTML, PDF, Microsoft Word, and Rich Text Format reading, as well as all the major eBook standards. It's also a very open reader - developers can add new formats to the programs API meaning it will always be able to handle the latest releases
Bibliogo
Bibliogo is a journal article web app that allows you to create and share bibliographies, manage journal alerts, follow feeds, tag citations, and order articles. You can connect your LinkedIn account, and others, with this web-based app.
EventSeer
Eventseer is a personalized tracker that alerts you when a new event matches your interests (people, topics, organizations). You may contribute material on your personal research whiteboard, such as job offers, requests for reviewers, or information about software releases, workshops, conferences and seminars
Google Alerts
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries.
Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage, and share web pages from a centralized source.
Diigo
Diigo ("Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff") allows users to bookmark web pages, annotate, highlight and share them. You can also discover resources other people have bookmarked.
iBreadCrumbs.com
iBreadCrumbs.com is a recording toolbar for your web browser. It records all the web pages you visit while you research. You may also save, review, and share your research with friends or colleagues.
Blackboard Scholar
Blackboard Scholar is a social bookmarking service customized for education. It allows students and instructors to find educational resources on the Web. Available only to users of the Blackboard Learning System.
Social Science Research Network
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid, global dissemination of social science research. The SSRN electronic library consists of an abstract database containing abstracts on over 574,300 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, as well as an electronic paper collection with over 475,8000 downloadable, full-text PDF documents. SSRN houses a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, encouraging early distribution of research results, as well as direct communication between readers, authors, and other subscribers. SSRN's specialized subject area networks include:
- Accounting Research Network (ARN)
- Cognitive Science Network (CSN)
- Corporate Governance Network (CGN)
- Economics Research Network (ERN)
- Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN)
- Financial Economics Network (FEN)
- Health Economics Network (HEN)
- Information Systems & eBusiness Network (ISN)
- Innovation Research & Policy Network (IRPN)
- International Business & Management Network (INTL)
- Leadership Research Network (LRN)
- Legal Scholarship Network (LSN)
- Management Research Network (MRN)
- Marketing Research Network (MKTG)
- Negotiations Research Network (NEG)
- Organizational Behavior Research Network (ORG)
- Political Science Network (PSN)
- Social Insurance Research Network (SIRN)
- Sustainability Research & Policy Network (SRPN)
- Classics Research Network (CRN)
- Music Research & Composition Network (MRCN)
- Philosophy Research Network (PRN)
- Rhetoric & Communication Research Network (RCRN)
Express Scribe Transcription Software
Express Scribe is a professional audio player software for PC or Mac that assists in the transcription of audio recordings.
FOLKER
FOLKER is an editor for the transcription of audio recorded multiparty dialogue.
Trailfire
Trailfire allows you to create "trails" -- or guides -- that link together web sites, add notes, and find content via other people's trails.
BibApp
BibApp allows you to promote your research, find collaborators on your own campus in your research area, in order to make research more accessible in general. BibApp identifies which publications should be placed on the Web for greater access, and can place publications directly into an institutional repository.
Cestagi
Cestagi is a collaborative platform that connects interdisciplinary communities. You can create a CV, share contributions, ask questions, learn about upcoming events, search employment opportunities, and track information.
H-Net
H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Web by providing curated lists and web sites publishing peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion.
Ning
Ning is a social website that brings together people in various realms, including education, social service work, tools, and music.
InqScribe
InqScribe is a software for transcription and subtitling. You may view and transcribe audio or video side-by-side. You may insert blocks of text, time codes, as well as convert your transcript into a subtitled movie.
MacSpeech Scribe
MacSpeech Scribe is a transcription software that allows you to create your own personal transcriptions, and supports a wide variety of audio file formats.
Proofread Page
Proofread Page is an extension for MediaWiki which allows you to edit transcriptions side by side with the page images. It is used on WikiSource for manuscript and early print transcription projects. Proofread Page supports workflow, but no markup.
Stories Matter
Stories Matter is an oral history database that allows you to cut, index, and export audio and video recordings.
Transcriber
Transana is open source software for the transcription and qualitative analysis of audio and video.
Transcript
Transcript is a desktop-based manuscript transcription tool that supports word-processor style formatting.
Transcription Assistant
Transcription Assistant is a tool that assists in transcription, and incorporates metadata about each image and transcription that may be used to search through an electronic library of transcriptions.
AskSam
askSam is an application to organize information. You may use askSam to turn email, word processing documents, text files, spreadsheets and Web pages into a searchable database.
Journler
Journler is a daily notebook and entry based information manager. Scholars, teachers, students, writers, and everyday users may use this on a daily basis to integrate their notebook content to other sources of media such as audio and video. The site has not been updated since 201. It looks like Journaler is now available open source though the option to purchase is still displayed.
NoteBook
NoteBook is an application that offers a notebook-like interface for organizing digital information. Technical features include the ability to take notes and edit, add sticky notes, copy/paste information, diagram and sketch, annotate, import/export files, and more.
Personal Brain
PersonalBrain is a mind mapping and brainstorming application that helps users visualize their ideas. PersonalBrain applies visualization to your content, in order to great a digital map visualization of networked information.
Supermemo
SuperMemo is a learning software that is devoted to increasing the speed of learning and heightening the level of knowledge retention.
Yojimbo
Yojimbo is an information organizer software that allows you to store text, images, PDFs, and passwords; organize information with tags and labels; export a copy of your data to your mobile device; and search all of Yojimbo content. Licenses available for individual, family, or educational use.
FieldWorks
FieldWorks consists of software tools that help you manage linguistic and cultural data. FieldWorks supports tasks ranging from the initial entry of collected data through to the preparation of data for publication
A.nnotate.com
A.nnotate.com allows you to annotate documents and images online. You may also collaborate on documents and index files. A.nnotate.com supports PDF and MS Office file formats, and runs on all common web browsers.
Annotator's Workbench
The Annotator's Workbench is a software tool that enables users to create a collection from a set of existing video files, segment that collection, create annotations and assign vocabulary terms to the segments, and control access. This tool is part of the Ethnographic Video for Institution and Analysis (EVIA) Digital Archive Project at Indiana University and the University of Michigan.
Annozilla (Annotea on Mozilla)
Annozilla allows you to view and create annotations associated with a web page. To use Annozilla you need to install the packages and get set up with an account with the W3C test server.
Awesome Highlighter
Awesome Highlighter enables you to highlight text on a web page and then provides you with a link to the highlighted page.
Co-ment
Co-ment is a text annotation and collaborative writing tool. Co-ment provides a friendly graphic user interface for text annotation, collaboration and writing texts online.
digress.it
Digress.it is a WordPress plug-in that allows paragraph-level commenting in the margins of a text. Use digress.it as a collaboration tool for blog-style comment threads off individual paragraphs. Host your project on digress.it or download it for use with your own WordPress installation.
eLaborate
eLaborate is an online work environment in which scholars can upload scans, transcribe and annotate text, and publish the results as on online text edition which is freely available to all users.
ELAN
ELAN is a tool for creating annotations on multiple layers on audio and video resources. The textual content of annotations is in Unicode and the transcription is stored in XML.
VideoANT
VideoANT is an online environment that synchronizes web based video with timeline based annotations.
Fleck
Fleck was a browser extension that allowed you to collect bookmarks and annotate webpages.
VoodooPad
VoodooPad is an annotation and organization tool. You may drag and drop folders, PDF files, applications, and URLs into VoodooPad, while maintaining the links. VoodooPad provides full screen editing, the ability to export your pages as HTML documents, and search capabilities.
Google Notebook
Google Notebook was a web application that helped you collect notes and information from the web for research or planning. You could use Google's bookmarklet to add text and images to any page of your notebooks, access your notebooks from any computer or your mobile phone, and also share your notebooks with others. Google Notebook is no longer available, all the existing notebooks have been automatically converted into Google Docs files.
Jarnal
Jarnal is an open-source application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal, making a presentation, annotating a document - including pdf - or collaborating using a stylus, mouse or keyboard. It is similar to Microsoft Windows Journal and to the earlier Mimeo whiteboarding and Palm notepad applications.
MyStickies
MyStickies allows you to place virtual sticky notes on websites, viewable each time you visit the page. Requires users to create an account, and install either a browser extension or bookmarklet. When logged in, MyStickies provides an interface to browse, search, sort, and edit existing sticky notes. May be useful for annotating research from multiple online resources, or for collaborative, interactive editing across a team.
Carrot2
Carrot2 is an open source search results clustering engine. It automatically organizes small collections of documents into categories.
Notational Velocity
Notational Velocity is open-source software that allows you to search across thousands of notes. You may create a new note or view or edit an existing note.
Pliny
Pliny is a scholarly note-taking and annotation tool. It may be used with both digital (web pages, images, PDF files) and non-digital (books, printed articles) materials, run as a desktop application on the user's computer. Pliny is useful for taking and managing annotations and notes while reading, as well as subsequently developing and presenting an interpretation.
Project Pad
Project Pad is web-based system for media annotation and collaboration for teaching and learning and scholarly applications. Project Pad provides tools for browsing and working with audio, video, and images from digital repositories. The user may organize and annotate excerpts within their own "online notebook." Available as a standalone web application or set of Sakai tools.
Reframe It
Reframe It was a web browser plugin that created a space for comments in the righthand margin of any webpage. No plugin exists for Chrome, and the Firefox plugin is only available for older versions. Wikipedia lists project status as "unclear" as of May 23, 2014.
Scribe
Scribe is a note-taking program that allows you to manage your research notes, quotes, thoughts, contacts, published and archival sources, digital images, outlines, timelines, and glossary entries. You can create, organize, index, search, link and cross-reference your note and source cards. Further information about Scribe can also be found at http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/index.php?title=Scribe, 23.05.2014.
SharedCopy
SharedCopy was a tool developed by Choon Keat, allowing users to individually and collaboratively annotate webpages. SharedCopy worked with platforms including Twitter and Basecamp, and enabled integration with other online services via its API.
Thinkport Annotator
The Annotator allows you to analyze any block of text created by other authors. You may use virtual markers to highlight important passages, questions, thoughts, or add comments.
Tinderbox
Tinderbox is a personal content assistant that helps you visualize, analyze, and share your notes. Tinderbox provides maps, timelines, charts, and outlines to help you view and organize your information.
Vertov
Vertov is a free media annotating plug-in for the research tool Zotero. Vertov allows you to cut audio and video files into clips, annotate the clips, and integrate annotations with other research sources and notes stored in Zotero. You must first download and install Firefox and Zotero before using Vertov.
Lexipedia
Lexipedia is a metadictionary displaying a semantic map of parts of speech related to the word of inquiry.
ManagedQ
ManagedQ is a search engine that classifies results into three categories (person, place, thing) and displays the results on a grid.
Miiget
Miiget allows you to search for famous people and connect them to other celebrities pertaining to more or less the same sphere. Miiget displays the results in a circular cluster of windows centered around the main query.
Mnemomap
Mnemomap is a flash interactive search engine that generates a visual "Atomic-Tree", sends your queries to a Query List, and delivers the search results. The Atomic-Tree allows you to improve your query mid-search. The Query List allows you to customize your search query.
oSkope
oSkope is a visual search assistant that allows you to browse and organize items from Amazon, eBay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo!Image Search and YouTube. Results are displayed on an interactive Flash grid of thumbnails.
Casual
Casual allows you to search for a concept or common word and produces a unique cloud of concepts. Results are randomly displayed as definitions, related tags, and pictures.
Cluuz
Cluuz is a search engine that shows not only links to related pages, but also entities (people, companies, organizations) and images that are extracted from within the search results. In addition to the results, Cluuz displays a tag cloud of the most relevant entities extracted from returned results, as well as a semantic graph view of a cluster of terms.
LiveShare
LiveShare allows you to create photo streams, invite friends to add their photos, and share your photo stream online. Available for iPhone and Android.
Quintura
Quintura is a visual search engine that provides a tagcloud option to allow for easier navigation and search refinement into more specific categories. You may search across the web, images or video. As of October 2012, Quintura is no longer in service. quintura.com redirects to quinturakids.com http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0830.htm
Evri
Evri develops iPad, iPhone and Android applications that provide news, photos, videos and tweets. You may customize your app to get updates on your favorite topics. Evri ceased to exist in 2012. http://www.geekwire.com/2012/paul-allen-backed-evri-calls-it-quits/
RedZ
RedZ is a 3D search engine that displays its results in the form of web page snapshots. The user may navigate through these relatively large snapshots, which are displayed in a Cover Flow layout.
flokoon
flokoon displays search results from Last.fm, YouTube, and Fotolia in a graphic interactive map, that connects related topics through a series of spiderweb-like graphics.
Gnod
Gnod is a cultural search tool that generates its results in floating tag clouds. You may search for books, music, movies, and people.
Google Wonder Wheel
Google allows you to see relevant search results to your query in a unique semantically relevant and graphically designed way.
Kartoo
Kartoo is a search engine that works across many different languages. Kartoo also provides a variety of other features and games.
KwMap
KwMap is a search engine that functions as a "keyword map" across the web. KwMap utilizes a keyword generator with a graphical interface that allows you to navigate from your initial query to results for related topics.
WebKruz
WebKruz is a visual search engine that allows you to navigate through the results (web page snapshots) of your query automatically.
WikiMindMap
WikiMindMap is a mindmapping tool that allows you to browse in wiki content. It uses an interactive interface based on a system of nodes and brackets. Maps may be exported into FreeMind.
WordVenture
WordVenture is an interactive visualization of the WordNet database that employs the technology and interface of TouchGraph.
Search-Cube
Search-Cube is a search engine that presents the results in an interactive 3D cube-shaped format. Search-Cube displays 96 thumbnails of search results generated by Google. Currently, Search Cube is powered by a Google search box and returns links and thumnails.
Silobreaker
Silobreaker is a search engine that aggregates the news from numerous sources and presents the contents in various visualization formats.
Tianamo
Tianamo (beta) is an information visualization search engine that displays the search results in a 3D landcape where subtopics are presented topographically as peaks. Tianamo is no longer online and the link bounces to a Chinese commerce site.
TouchGraph SEO Browser
TouchGraph is a Java application that creates network graphs of websites returned in Google searches.
TuneGlue
TuneGlue is a music search engine that generates and connects nodes containing artist names related to the one queried, and networks the related artists in an interactive web.
VisuWords
VisuWords is a mindmapping linguistic tool that shows the relationships between the queried word and related words in an interactive map, with corresponding definitions.
D3.js
D3.js is a data visualization library by Mike Bostock, who is also the primary creator of Protovis, which D3 is designed to replace. There is a great introductory tutorial available from Luke Franci. It is one of many other tutorials linked to from Bostock's D3 wiki.
Protovis
Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example. Protovis is no longer being developed. The developers have moved on to a new visualization library, D3.
Processing
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production.
Orange
Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting. Components for machine learning. Add-ons for bioinformatics and text mining. Packed with features for data analytics.
yED Files
yWorks is a powerful set of tools for creating diagrams using any number of frameworks. There are tools for working with HTML, FLEX, AJAX, Silverlight, Java and .NET. yEd is also available from the yWorks site. This free graph editor can be used to create diagrams manually, or to import data for analysis.
Nominatim
Nominatim is a tool to search osm data by name and address and to generate synthetic addresses of osm points (reverse geocoding). Nominatim is also used as one of the sources for the Search box on the OpenStreetMap home page and powers the search on the MapQuest Open Initiative websites.
Polymaps
Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and other providers of image-based web maps. Birmingham Airport Parking Manchester Meet and Greet
TXM
TXM is a free and open-source cross-platform Unicode, XML & TEI based text/corpus analysis environment and graphical client, supporting Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It can also be used online as a J2EE standard compliant web portal (GWT based) with access control built in. It offers a comprehensive range of analysis tools (concordances, collocate search, frequency lists, etc.) based on the powerfull CQP full text search engine (http://cwb.sourceforge.net) and a range of statistical functions (factorial analysis, classification, cooccurrency analysis, etc.) based on R packages (http://www.r-project.org).
Viewshare
Viewshare is a free web application for creating interfaces and visualizations of cultural heritage collections. It can create interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds, histograms, and image galleries. The intended users of Viewshare are individuals managing and creating access to digital collections of cultural heritage materials. Viewshare is offered as a software as a service (SaaS), email [email protected] to request a free account.
- Import Collection Data: Ingest collections from spreadsheets, JSON, CONTENTdm, XML MODS or OAI records. Upload from your desktop or import them from a URL.
- Generate Views: Generate distinct interactive visual interfaces to your digital collections, including maps and timelines, and sophisticated faceted navigation
- Embed & Share:Copy/Paste to embed your visualization interface in any webpage. Provide your users with novel and intuitive ways to explore your content System Requirements: Viewshare makes every attempt to support the following Web browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer v.7 & 8, Firefox v.3.x and Safari v.3.x. Opera v.9.x, Camino v.1.6.x, Firefox v.4.x, and Chrome v.14.x mostly work but are not as thoroughly tested and not officially supported. Internet Explorer v.6 does not work with some of the software used by Viewshare. Viewshare currently supports the US English (en-US) locale.
Open Attribute
Open Attribute is a suite of tools that makes it simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work. These tools will query the metadata around a CC-licensed object and produce a properly formatted attribution that users can copy and paste wherever they need to.
VIVO
VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution and beyond. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information. Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually, brought into VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies.
ifttt
Put the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure: if this then that. Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).
Kartograph
Kartograph is a new framework for building interactive map applications without Google Maps or any other mapping service. It was created with the needs of designers and data journalists in mind.
TimeGlider
TimeGlider is a data-driven interactive timeline application built using JavaScript. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out to view centuries at a time or just hours. TimeGlider allows you to create event-spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, TimeGlider lets you collaborate and share easily.
Transcriva
Transcriva is transcription software for the Mac. Whether it's your meeting minutes, interviews, lectures, home movies, dictation, speeches, or your favorite TV show, Transcriva can help you transcribe them all.
DocuScope
DocuScope is a text analysis environment with a suite of interactive visualization tools for corpus-based rhetorical analysis. Designed as a tool for rhetorical analysis, it's also extremely effective for developing the dictionary in a systematic fashion. The tool uses a collection of lists called "Language Action Types," or LATs, each of which contains words believed to belong to a given conceptual category. Words that designate "Positive Emotion" constitute one LAT; words that are associated with orality make up another LAT, and so on. DocuScope reads documents in and measures the degree to which each parsed document contains words from each of the LATs. Users may customize the LATs, and may visualize the results in various ways.
LATtice
LATtice lets you explore and compare texts across entire corpora but also allows you to “drill down” to the level of individual LATs (language action types) to ask exactly what rhetorical categories make texts similar or different.
Xena
Xena is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena is an acronym meaning Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives. Xena is a component of the Digital Preservation Software Platform (DPSP). Xena software aids digital preservation by performing two important tasks: detecting the file formats of digital objects and converting digital objects into open formats for preservation.
Gliffy
Gliffy is a tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams. Gliffy works directly in your browser and can be used to build flow charts, organization charts, network diagrams, workflows, technical drawings, and wireframes.
BuzzData
BuzzData was a website that allowed users to create accounts to share and follow datasets. Data was shared in public rooms under open licenses. The service included tools to help visualize and present data. BuzzData was closed on August 1, 2013.
Hackety Hack
Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up. No previous programming experience is needed! With Hackety Hack, you'll learn the Ruby programming language. Ruby is used for all kinds of programs, including desktop applications and websites. Hackety Hack is an interactive downloadable tutorial system
Archive-It
Archive-It is a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations to harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content. Through our user friendly web application Archive-It partners can collect, catalog, and manage their collections of archived content with 24/7 access and full text search available for their use as well as their patrons. Content is hosted and stored at the Internet Archive data centers.
PDF Extract
Pdf-extract is an open source set of tools and libraries for identifying and extracting semantically significant regions of a scholarly journal article (or conference proceeding) PDF.
TEI Boilerplate
TEI Boilerplate is a lightweight solution for publishing styled TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) P5 content directly in modern browsers. With TEI Boilerplate, TEI XML files can be served directly to the web without server-side processing or translation to HTML. TEI Boilerplate also provides a simple solution for delivering TEI documents through Omeka, the popular open-source web-publishing platform. No additional software or plugins are necessary. One can simply host the TEI Boilerplate XSLT, JavaScript, and CSS files on a server alongside Omeka and change a parameter in the TEI Boilerplate XSLT file to point to that server.
Prism
Prism is a tool for crowdsourcing interpretation. Welcome to our experiment in crowd-sourcing and visualizing many readings of a common set of texts.
TypeWright
TypeWright is a tool for correcting the text-version of a document made up of page images. These text-versions are crucially necessary: they are what enables full-text searching, datamining, preserving, and curating texts of historical importance. Right now, the text running behind the page images of these texts has been mechanically typed, leaving behind errors that need to be corrected by human eyes and hands.
Altmetric
The Altmetric Explorer is a powerful web app that allows you to track the conversations around scientific articles online. Altmetric collects and analyzes hundreds of thousands of postings about tens of thousands of articles and datasets each month. It makes this data available to end users through an intuitive user interface and to developers through an API. The Altmetric score is their quantitative measure of the attention that a scholarly article has received and is derived from volume (the frequency of mentions, but only from an individual source), sources (the category of mentions are ranked: tweets, newspaper mentions, etc. and are given weights), and authors. A browser button is available for download for free and can be used on any article to determine the piece's score.
BibServer
BibServer is an open-source RESTful bibliographic data server. BibServer makes it easy to create and manage collections of bibliographic records such as reading lists, publication lists and even complete library catalogs. Its main features include
- Create and manage bibliographic collections simply and easily
- Import (and export) your collection from bibtex, MARC, RIS, BibJSON, RDF or other bibliogrpaphic formats in a matter of seconds
- Browse collection via an elegant faceted interface
- Embed the collection browser in other websites
- Full RESTful API
Google Scholar Citations
Google Scholar Citations lets you track citations to your publications, check who is citing your publications, graph your citations over time, compute citation metrics, and view publications by colleagues.
Bootstrap
Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions.
HandBrake
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder
Yana
Yāna provides a free, open-source template that open access journals can use as the basis of their own multi-platform mobile applications. The Yāna template provides the basic functionality required by any journal operating on a mobile platform.
Bookworm
Bookworm enables you to graphically explore lexical trends in repositories of digitized texts.
Trello
Trello is a web-based project management and collaboration tool that allows users to organize projects in a dashboard view, containing one or more project-oriented boards. The dashboard provides a real-time overview of what is being worked on, who is working on what, and overall progress toward project milestones. Useful for organized task management, delegation, communication, and collaboration across teams.
Legend Maker
A simple and easy tool for creating EPUB, MOBI, and other ebook formats.
Anvil
ANVIL is a free video annotation tool. It offers multi-layered annotation based on a user-defined coding scheme.
Edit Flow
Edit Flow gives you custom statuses, a calendar, editorial comments, and more, all to make it much easier for your team to collaborate within WordPress.
All Our Ideas
All Our Ideas is a research project that seeks to develop a new form of social data collection by combining the best features of quantitative and qualitative methods. Using the power of the web, we are creating a data collection tool that has the scale, speed, and quantification of a survey while still allowing for new information to "bubble up" from respondents as happens in interviews, participant observation, and focus groups.
Textalyser
An online text analysis tool that provides detailed statistics of your text, including features like the anlysis of words groups, finding out keyword density, analysing the prominence of word or expressions.
Annotum
Annotum is an open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress.
Intervue
Intervue is a quick and easy tool for publishers who are looking to gather short video responses online from anyone with a webcam.
Jekyll
Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory containing raw text files in various formats, runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and creates a complete, static ready-to-publish website suitable for serving with your favorite web server. Jekyll also happens to be the engine behind GitHub Pages, which means you can use Jekyll to host your project’s page, blog, or website from GitHub’s servers for free.
Datapress
Datapress is a wordpress plugin that allows you to configure beautiful data presentations for your blog entries using MIT’s Exhibit framework.
Modernizr
Modernizr is a small JavaScript library that detects the availability of native implementations for next-generation web technologies, i.e. features that stem from the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications.
Ruby
Neatline
Neatline is a tool for the creation of interlinked timelines and maps as interpretive expressions of the literary or historical content of archival collections.
Pandoc
Pandoc can convert documents in reStructuredText, textile, HTML, or LaTeX formats to a variety of other formats including XHTML, PDF, EPUB, docx, odt, and more.
Markdown
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Bluefish
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web designers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the statistics.
Readability
Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view.
Indexhibit
A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound.
Blacklight
Blacklight is an open source Ruby on Rails gem that provides a discovery interface for any Solr index. Blacklight provides a default user interface which is customizable via the standard Rails (templating) mechanisms. Blacklight accommodates heterogeneous data, allowing different information displays for different types of objects and features faceted browsing, relevance based searching, bookmarkable items, permanent URLs for every item, and user tagging of items.
PressBooks
PressBooks lets you and your team easily author and output books in multiple formats including: epub, Kindle, print-on-demand-ready PDF, HTML, and inDesign-ready XML.
Dataverse
The Dataverse Network is an application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows to replicate others work. Researchers and data authors get credit, publishers and distributors get credit, affiliated institutions get credit.
DSpace
DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. DSpace has an active community of developers and is used by thousands of institutions worldwide.
GPS Visualizer
GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data.
Durationator
The Durationator is a web-based tool which seeks to make the past usable one query at a time by providing legal information regarding the copyright term of any given cultural work.
SiteCrawler
SiteCrawler is a website downloading application that allows users to capture entire sites or selected portions of sites like image galleries.
OpenETD
OpenETD is an open source, web-based software application for managing the submission, approval, and distribution of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Joomla
Joomla is an open source content management system (CMS), enabling users to build websites and applications.
SpiderOak
SpiderOak provides an private and secure online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for all file and data types. It was designed with a 'Privacy-as-a-Platform' approach. The 'Zero-Knowledge' privacy cloud technology provides a central, private place to store data, free from surveillance by private and public entities. Data is fully encrypted end-to-end (not only during transit) and only the user is able to unlock it using their password. Passwords are never stored by SpiderOak and the company cannot see the names of files or folders in your account. SpiderOak allows you to securely backup files (including a built-in versioning system), choose to sync data across all of your devices, and share folders or files privately using a password-protected link. Users can have unlimited devices connected to their SpiderOak account which backs up your data so you are able to restore files, even if they are deleted. Some components of SpiderOak are open source (See GitHub Page). The company intends to be fully open source in the future but as of 2014 their source is not available. New users get 2GB free (no time limit) and can upgrade to more storage as required.
Yutzu
Yutzu is a collaborative tool that allows people in the creative industries to collect, share, and publish multimedia content in an easy-to-use and intuitive way.
Compfight
Search Flickr for photos, sort according to license types. Contains commercial as well as Creative Commons licensed photos.
Otixo
View and edit files from different cloud services (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) in one place.
MIT App Inventor
The MIT App Inventory (formerly Google App Inventor) allows users to develop applications for Android phones using a web browser and either a connected phone or emulator. Includes forum and tutorials; requires a Google account.
Substance
Substance is a fully web-based document authoring and publishing platform.
SepiaTown
SepiaTown is a cultural history project that aims to provide a window to the past by merging photography, geography, and technology, by acting as a forum for institutions and individuals to share and map historical images. Once they have signed up, users may upload historic images to the site individually or in batches. Each image is given a title, description and keywords, as well as a spatial location represented by a marker on a map. Visitors to the site can search or browse by using keywords and place-names, or by going directly to the map and clicking on a thumbnail to view images directly.
timemap
Timemap.js is a Javascript library that helps you to produce online maps (such as Google, OpenLayers, and Bing) along with a SIMILE timeline. You can load one or more datasets (in JSON, KML, or GeoRSS) onto both a map and a timeline simultaneously. By default, only items in the visible range of the timeline are displayed on the map.
Google Account
WikiPack
WikiPack is a web based personal information organizer and Markdown editor that uses Dropbox for synced storage. Using plain text Markdown files and WikiWords, WikiPack gives information context and links entries together by turning your Markdown pages into a private, password protected wiki. The easy to use Markdown language lets you create and edit your wiki pages without having to learn complex wiki syntax. WikiPack features page history/versioning and visual change comparisons in the browser-based GUI and store all of your files in your Dropbox account. You can import existing markdown files to sync WikiPack with other apps and services using Dropbox, or use the quick-start template to set up new wikis. WikiPack includes a GUI markdown editor with syntax highlighting, built-in markdown reference, support for Multimarkdown table, and toolbar buttons with keyboard shortcuts and tools for common formatting. WikiPack works in the browser so you can use it on any desktop or mobile device that has an internet connection and Dropbox functionality.
Tweetster
Plugin for Omeka and WordPress that allows you to automatically tweet new additions to your Omeka archive or WordPress blog.
GapVis
GapVis is an interface for exploring and reading texts that reference ancient places. It includes maps and data visualizations that show what locations are referred to a different points in the narrative and allows you to dig into the details to learn more.
Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
WorkTop
WorkTop was designed to enhance the ability of students (and scholars at all levels) to more efficiently perform fundamental scholarly tasks while at the same time providing new opportunities for collaborative learning.
Improvise
Improvise is a fully-implemented Java software architecture and user interface that enables users to build and browse highly-coordinated visualizations interactively. By coupling a shared-object coordination model with a declarative visual query language, users gain precise control over how navigation and selection affects the appearance of data across multiple views, using a potentially infinite number of variations on well-known coordination patterns such as synchronized scrolling, overview+detail, brushing, drill-down, and semantic zoom.
GRASS GIS
GRASS GIS is free and open source software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. Comparison to QGIS: Like GRASS, QGIS is free, open source, developed by volunteers, and has a robust and active online user community. However, GRASS is mainly used for highly technical purposes and mathematical analyses. For more details, see this Stack Exchange thread. QGIS and GRASS do cooperate with each other; Plug-ins and extensions allow GRASS functions to be used inside QGIS.
Google Drive
Available as a web-based service and as an app for iOS, Mac, PC, and Android, Google Drive allows users to create, store, edit, and share files across all their devices. Online and offline file access available. Requires a Google account for use, but allows files from Drive to be shared with non-Google users. Drive allows users to upload, store, and share any type of file (e.g., JPEG, MP4, JS, INDD, AI). The majority can be previewed, and many can be edited within Drive. Some files (e.g., DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) can be converted into compatible file types for editing, commenting, and more. Drive is the platform for Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and many other approved applications. Files saved in Drive sync to all other devices, with an activity monitor that can be useful for version control (see what edits have been made and when, and revert back to previous instances if needed). Offers both free and paid accounts, priced by data capacity: 15 GB (free), 100 GB ($1.99/month), 1 TB ($9.99/month), 10 TB ($99.99/month), 20 TB ($199.99/month), 30 TB ($299.99/month). Teams with more than five people can purchase unlimited storage for $10/user/month.
Pocket was founded in 2007 by Nate Weiner to help people save interesting articles, videos and more from the web for later enjoyment. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device — phone, tablet or computer. It can be viewed while waiting in line, on the couch, during commutes or travel — even offline.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. For example, you can use a Windows computer to create a Mac or Linux environment to test software or websites.
ScribTeX
Web based LaTeX editor that features a LaTeX complier, version control, and online storage space. Allows collaborative editing and offline editing.
ANNIS
ANNIS2 is an open source, versatile web browser-based search and visualization architecture for complex multilevel linguistic corpora with diverse types of annotation. ANNIS, which stands for ANNotation of Information Structure, has been designed to provide access to the data of the SFB 632 ("Information Structure: The Linguistic Means for Structuring Utterances, Sentences and Texts"). Since information structure interacts with linguistic phenomena on many levels, ANNIS2 addresses the SFB's need to concurrently annotate, query and visualize data from such varied areas as syntax, semantics, morphology, prosody, referentiality, lexis and more. For projects working with spoken language, support for audio / video annotations is also required. In the SFB, a number of different projects collect and annotate data according to the common SFB Annotation Standard. This data, which is annotated using both automatic taggers/parsers and a small set of manual annotation tools (EXMARaLDA, ELAN, annotate/Synpathy, MMAX, RSTTool), is mapped onto the encoding standard of the SFB, PAULA (Potsdamer Austauschformat für Linguistische Annotation / Potsdam Interchange Format for Linguistic Annotation), a stand-off multilevel XML format, which serves as the basis for further processing. ANNIS2 provides the means for visualizing and retrieving this data. The diagram below illustrates the data flow from multiple annotation tools into the merged XML format and the ANNIS application.
WebLicht
WebLicht is a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for creating annotated text corpora. Development started in October 2008 as part of CLARIN-D's predecessor project D-SPIN, and further development and enhancement of WebLicht is an important goal of CLARIN-D, aiming to make WebLicht a fully-functional virtual research environment. WebLicht employs chains of RESTful web services. Each web service encapsulates a certain linguistic tool. For example, users can access as a web service the query component of a corpus, a format converter, a tokenizer, a tagger, or a parser. Translation between the input format specific to some tool and the WebLicht information interchange format TCF (see below) is performed by a web service wrapper. Each web service adds at least one layer of annotation encompassing the work of the tool encapsulated by that service. The output of a chain of WebLicht services is an automatically analyzed corpus in the form of an XML document. To do this, each WebLicht service must be able to use a common interchange format that all the other services can also process. CLARIN-D's Text Corpus Format (TCF), serves this purpose. It is broadly compatible with existing related interchange formats like Negra, Paula, or TüBa-D/Z, and format-specific converters allow interchange between them. WebLicht can be accessed only with a valid DFN-AAI/Shibboleth-based account or a local Tübingen account.
brat rapid annotation tool
This online tool can be used for a wide variety of annotation tasks, including visualization and collaboration. brat is designed in particular for structured annotation, where the notes are not freeform text but have a fixed form that can be automatically processed and "interpreted" by a computer. brat also supports the annotation of n-ary associations that can link together any number of other annotations participating in specific roles. brat also implements a number of features relying on natural language processing techniques to support human annotation efforts. Other applications include entity mention detection, event extraction, coreference resolution, chunking, dependency syntax, meta-knowledge, and corpora annotation.
Pundit
Pundit is a semantic annotation and augmentation tool. It enables users to create structured data while annotating web pages. Annotations span from simple comments to semantic links to web of data entities (as Freebase.com and Dbpedia.org), to fine granular cross-references and citations. Pundit can be configured to include custom controlled vocabularies. In other words, annotations can refer to precise entities and concepts as well as express precise relations among entities and contents. Read more on semantically structured annotations Pundit is designed to enable groups of users to share their annotations and collaboratively create structured knowledge.
WARCreate
WARCreate is a Google Chrome extension that allows a user to create a Web ARChive (WARC) file from any browseable webpage. The resulting files can then be used with other tools like the Internet Archive's open source Wayback Machine. The tool is an evolving product with the end result pushing toward being a personal web archiving solution for those that wish to securely archive their metadata in a standardize way.
Piazza
Web-based discussion tool (not a full-fledged learning management system, but you can link to Piazza from your LMS, including Blackboard, Moodle, and Coursera) that allows student to ask questions and interact with instructors and other students in a public space. A wiki style format enables collaboration in a single space and features LaTeX editor, highlighted syntax and code blocking. Questions and posts needing immediate action are highlighted and instructors endorse answers to keep the class on track. Anonymous posting encourages every student to participate. Subjects include computer science, biology, chemistry, economics, psychology, engineering, mathematics, and physics. Once in a subject area, you can view what professors from where are teaching or answering questions on what. This is a great tool for students looking to get extra or more in-depth help beyond the classroom. Companies can use Piazza for recruiting college students, and it is this function for which users pay.
visual.ly
Easy-to-use web-based software for creating infographics and data visualization, including a platform to share your work and discover works by others.
Korbo
Korbo is a powerful aggregation platform for gathering Linked Data objects relevant to your area of research into single workspaces or “baskets”. Korbo is targeted primarily at developers who want to build applications on top of its API and make full use of the linked cultural data from sources such as Europeana, FreeBase and DBPedia. Korbo is currently in the early stages of development, but you can already try out a demo version of the platform.
Scripto
Scripto is an open-source tool for community transcription of documents, images, and multimedia files. Registered users are permitted to view digital files and transcribe them with an easy-to-use toolbar. The tool includes a versioning history and editorial controls to make public contributions more manageable, and supports the transcription of a wide range of file types. Scripto works as an extension to popular open source content management systems, including Omeka, Wordpress, and Drupal. Installation procedures vary for each CMS but all projects must install a dedicated instance of MediaWiki. WordPress and Drupal require Zend Framework. Scripto can be used out of the box or it can be customized to individual projects. Scripto is useful for materials for which transcribing content is important, but where faithful reproduction of format or appearance of an item is not necessary. N.B. currently the Zoom.it service is unavailable rendering the WordPress and Drupal plugins inoperable. (Oct 30, 2014)
Google Chrome
PyBossa
PyBossa is a free, open-source, platform for creating and running crowd-sourcing applications that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more.
HyperImage
The HyperImage platform supports the linking of (audio)-visual objects, texts and mixed-media documents. References between images in total, regions of images, annotations regarding the images, and other media, are achieved by means of hyperlinks. The HyperImage Authoring System is a web-based system consisting of three main components – server, connector and database – on to which the graphic frontend (the HyperImage Editor) is built. Data is exchanged between the HyperImage Editor and the HyperImage Server using standardised methods via SOAP/HTTP.
Timeline JS
TimelineJS can pull in media from different sources. It has built in support for: Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more media types in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as JSON.
Archivematica
Archivematica is a digital preservation system that is designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects. It uses a micro-services design pattern to provide an integrated suite of software tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access in compliance with the ISO-OAIS functional model. Users monitor and control the micro-services via a web-based dashboard. Archivematica uses METS, PREMIS, Dublin Core and other best practice metadata standards. Archivematica implements media type preservation plans based on an analysis of the significant characteristics of file formats.
PaperCritic
Open peer review tool for items in Mendeley. Offers a method to monitor all feedback on scientific work for authors and allows others to review work. A watchlist feed keeps track of mentions and reviews of papers you're interested in.
Insync
Insync extends Google Drive's web functionality to your desktop by integrating with Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Insync allows for built-in sharing without a browser, multiple account support, on-demand shared file syncing, desktop notifications and more.
Trapit
Gathers smart search results based on user feedback. Similar to Google Alerts but you can give a thumbs up/down to improve the search results.
ZotFile
Zotero add-on for Firefox to manage your attachments: automatically rename, move, and attach files to Zotero items, sync PDFs from your Zotero library to your (mobile) PDF reader (e.g. an iPad, Android tablet, etc.) and extract annotations from PDF files.
- Attach New Files to Zotero Items
- (Batch) Rename and Move Attachments based on Zotero Metadata
- Sync PDFs with your iPad or Android tablet
- Extract Annotations from PDF Files
Scanner for Zotero
Android app that scans the ISBN barcode on a book and pulls the bibliographic metadata into your Zotero library.
Google+
Social networking platform, not unlike Facebook, that works with other Google services and allows users to connect with and see what friends are doing. Users can create posts and share links or multimedia items with select groups (called Circles). The Hangouts feature allows group video chat.
Google Currents
News and RSS reader designed for iOS and Android mobile devices. Has been replaced by Google Play Newsstand (https://play.google.com/store/newsstand?hl=en)
Qnotero
Qnotero provides lightning quick access to users' Zotero references. It lives in the system tray and allows users to search through their references by author and/ or year of publication. If a PDF file is attached to a reference, users can open it directly from within Qnotero.
TemaTres Controlled Vocabulary Server
TemaTres is an open source vocabulary server, web application to manage and exploit vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies and formal representations of knowledge.
SimpleTCT
SimpleTCT is a simplified management environment designed to assist in textual comparison. Users can display the contents of .rtf files, define themes, highlight passages and add personal notes as required. A document may then be exported containing all of the selected passages, organised thematically, situated alongside the relevant notes.
UAM CorpusTool
The UAM CorpusTool may be used for annotating a corpus as part of a linguistic study. The tool also allows to search for annotation forms and compare them to one another. It provides a graphical schema editor and saves annotations in a stand-off XML format.
GATE
GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering) is a sophisticated framework that allows manual and automatic annotation as well as the processing of all kinds of language resources. GATE has a broad community of users and developers, and comes with diverse plugins for specific linguistic tasks.
Lexomics
The term "lexomics" was originally coined to describe the computer-assisted detection of "words" (short sequences of bases) in genomes. When applied to literature as we do here, lexomics is the analysis of the frequency, distribution, and arrangement of words in large-scale patterns. The current suite of lexomics tools are:
- scrubber -- strips tags, removes stop words, applies lemma lists, and prepares texts for diviText
- diviText -- cuts texts into chunks in one of three ways, count words, exports the results
- treeView -- builds dendrograms and saves the output as .pdf or xml in phyloXML format
The Lexomics web site site contains extensive documentation and video tutorials.
Note: Lexomics has been replaced Lexos, which offers an integrated workflow and additional functionality.
WordFreak
"WordFreak is a java-based linguistic annotation tool designed to support human, and automatic annotation of linguistic data as well as employ active-learning for human correction of automatically annotated data." (text taken from http://wordfreak.sourceforge.net/)
Zandy
Zandy provides users with access to their Zotero library through a simple interface. Users can browse and modify the items in their libraries, add new items, view attachments, take and edit item notes, search their libraries, and add webpages from the Android browser.
The Observer XT
The Observer XT is the professional and user-friendly event logging software for the collection, analysis, and presentation of observational data.
Atlas.ti
The purpose of ATLAS.ti is to help researchers uncover and systematically analyze complex phenomena hidden in text and multimedia data. The program provides tools that let the user locate, code, and annotate findings in primary data material, to weigh and evaluate their importance, and to visualize complex relations between them.
F4
F4 eases the transcription process of audio or video recordings and you can safe about 30% of your time. You can adjust the playback speed to your personal transcription speed. Further there is a foot pedal usable to control the playback. You can set automatically time marks, speaker change or text modules.
Advene
The cross-platform Advene application allows users to easily create comments and analyses of video documents, through the definition of time-aligned annotations and their mobilisation into automatically-generated or user-written comment views (HTML documents). Annotations can also be used to modify the rendition of the audiovisual document, thus providing virtual montage, captioning, navigation... capabilities. Users can exchange their comments/analyses in the form of Advene packages, independently from the video itself. The Advene framework provides models and tools allowing to design and reuse annotations schemas; annotate video streams according to these schemas; generate and create Stream-Time Based (mainly video-centred) or User-Time Based (mainly text-centred) visualisations of the annotations. Schemas (annotation- and relation-types), annotations and relations, queries and views can be clustered and shared in units called packages. Hypervideo documents are generated when needed, both from packages (for annotation and view description) and DVDs (audiovisual streams).
Greenshot
Windows tool for annotating, editing, and sharing screen shots and images.
Clarify
Mac and Windows tool for taking multiple screenshots, annotating them, and combining them into a single document.
QDA Miner - Qualitative Data Analysis Software for Qualitative Research
QDA Miner is an easy-to-use mixed-methods qualitative data analysis software package for coding, annotating, retrieving and analyzing small and large collections of documents and images. QDA Miner may be used to analyze interview or focus-group transcripts, legal documents, journal articles, even entire books, as well as drawing, photographs, paintings, and other types of visual documents. Its seamless integration with SimStat, a statistical data analysis tool, and WordStat, a content analysis and text-mining module, gives you unprecedented flexibility for analyzing text and relating its content to structured information, including numerical and categorical data. For more information, visit http://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/
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WordStat - Content Analysis & Text Mining Software
WordStat is a text analysis module for QDA Miner or SimStat. WordStat combines content analysis method by using dictionary approach and many algorithms exploration or various text mining methods. WordStat can apply existing categorization dictionaries to a new text corpus. It also may be used in the development and validation of new categorization dictionaries. When used in conjunction with manual coding, this module can provide assistance for a more systematic application of coding rules, help uncover differences in word usage between subgroups of individuals and assist in the revision of existing coding using KWIC (Keyword In Context) tables. WordStat is specifically designed to study textual information such as responses to open-ended questions, interviews, titles, journal articles, public speeches, electronic communications, etc. For more information, visit: http://provalisresearch.com/products/content-analysis-software/
Annotorious
A Web-based image annotation tool, built specifically for integration with existing Web pages or portal environments. Annotorious is also available as a plugin to the Annotator Web annotation system by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Protégé
The Protege Project offers WebProtege and Protege Desktop, which are free and open source ontology editing applications. WebProtégé is an ontology development environment for the Web that makes it easy to create, upload, modify, and share ontologies for collaborative viewing and editing. WebProtégé fully supports the latest OWL 2 Web Ontology Language. The highly configurable user interface creates the perfect environment for beginners and experts alike. Collaboration features abound, including sharing and permissions, threaded notes and discussions, watches and email notifications. RDF/XML, Turtle, OWL/XML, OBO, and other formats available for ontology upload and download. Protégé Desktop is a feature rich ontology editing environment with full support for the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language, and direct in-memory connections to description logic reasoners like HermiT and Pellet. Protégé Desktop supports creation and editing of one or more ontologies in a single workspace via a completely customizable user interface. Visualization tools allow for interactive navigation of ontology relationships. Advanced explanation support aids in tracking down inconsistencies. Refactor operations available including ontology merging, moving axioms between ontologies, rename of multiple entities, and more.
WordCruncher
WordCruncher is a text retrieval and analysis program that allows users to index or use a text, including very large multilingual Unicode documents. It supports the addition of tags (such as part of speech, definitions, lemma, etc), graphics, and hyperlinks to text or multimedia files. In addition to supporting contextual and tag searching, WordCruncher also includes many analytical reports, including collocation, vocabulary dispersion, frequency distribution, vocabulary usage, and various other reports.
Survey Daddy
Create a survey to measure and record your students' progress against curriculum outcomes. Use Likert questions to rate students based on a rubric and text questions to record qualitative data to share with parents and faculty. **This item is being upgraded to PollDaddy: Your login details and account will remain the same, you will now login at Polldaddy.com.
MDB Tool
This very useful tool for OSX users allows you to open, browse and convert Microsoft Access databases into SQL and CSV formats.
Meld
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems.
Kaleidoscope 2.0
Kaleidoscope is one of the world's best tools for spotting differences in images and text, and now it supports merging of files and folders, too. Kaleidoscope integrates directly with Git, Subversion, Mercurial, and Bazaar to fit perfectly in your workflow.
AustESE
eResearch tools to support the collaborative authoring and management of electronic scholarly editions.
Scholastica
Manage and publish your existing journal, or lead the Open Access movement in your field by starting a new journal. Scholastica makes it easy to collaborate on a journal and publish scholarship at the click of a button.
ImagePlot
ImagePlot is a free software tool that visualizes collections of images and video of any size.
Classical Text Editor
The Classical Text Editor was designed to enable scholars working on a critical edition or on a text with commentary or translation to prepare a camera-ready copy or electronic publication without bothering much about making up and page proofs. Its features, formed in continuous discussion with editors using the program, meet the practical needs of the scholar concerning text constitution, entries to different apparatus and updating them when the text has been changed, as well as creating and redefining sigla. The possibility to search for and visualise manuscript constellations may be of considerable help in detecting affiliations between sources. It is the primary purpose of the Classical Text Editor to do the automatable work which consumes so much time and energy, and let the scholar concentrate on scientific issues.
Participad
Participad is a WordPress plugin that allows multiple people to edit the same WP content at the same time. Powered by Etherpad Lite, Participad gives you: notepads for collaborative notetaking; synchronous authoring of any content in the WordPress Dashboard; front-end editing. You can download it from the WordPress plugin repository. Participad has three modules:
- Dashboard – The Dashboard module puts Etherpad editors into the WordPress Dashboard. Participad removes the “Visual” and “HTML” tabs from the standard WP editor, and replaces them with a “Participad” tab.
- Frontend – The Frontend module allows users to edit WordPress content from the front end of your website – no Dashboard required. Participad modifies the Edit links on your posts and pages so that, instead of leading to the Dashboard, the static content of your post is swapped with an editable Etherpad window.
- Notepad – The Notepad module enables a new WordPress Post Type called Notepads. Notepads are collaborative note-taking documents, which can optionally be linked to existing static posts or pages. Participad provides several shortcodes and widgets that make it easy to create new Notepads from the front end of your website.
Tesserae
The Tesserae project aims to provide a flexible and robust web interface for exploring intertextual parallels.
Commons In A Box
CBOX offers a unique suite of features designed to give users of all skill levels the ability to create vibrant online communities. Essentially a WordPress plugin, its intuitive, out-of-the-box set-up tool guides site administrators through each step of installation. Its powerful theme, developed for Commons In A Box in collaboration with PressCrew and their Infinity Theming Engine, lets users fully customize their sites. The plugins it manages are totally configurable from the CBOX dashboard, which controls updates and compatibility issues. The sitewide wiki enables members to collaboratively build a knowledge repository. There is a dependency on having a full local or externally hosted wordpress installation available
Org Mode
Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Org is not a standalone application but is a plugin in GNUEmacs and is now available in some Emacs distributions. As an Emacs plug in it is a linemode text based note manager rather than a gui tool
Topic Modeling Tool
A graphical user interface tool for Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling.
TexTexture
Textexture is a tool for visualizing any text as a network. The resulting graph can be used to get a quick visual summary of the text, read the most relevant excerpts (by clicking on the nodes), and find similar texts.
DocScanner
The DocScanner app uses a device's built-in camera to scan documents. Features include image optimization, OCR, document type recognition (document, business card, receipt, etc.), autosorting, and ability to upload documents to Evernote, Dropbox, and Google Drive.
nanoc
nanoc is a Ruby-based, "static site generator" --it works as a tool that runs on your local computer and compiles documents written in formats such as Markdown, Textile, Haml… into a static web site consisting of simple HTML files, ready for uploading to any web server.
Basecamp
Project management software for sharing files, messages, and task management, including options for daily update emails, and real time document editing.
DocumentCloud
Designed for journalists, a web-based service for working with primary sources that features search and analysis, highlighting and annotation, and document sharing. Uses Tesseract for OCR and allows users to upload documents and search other its document collection.
Diagram.ly
draw.io is an online diagramming application built for speed, reliability and simplicity. It features the full range of visual configuration you expect, as well as web application features such as a full range of export options, a large collection of icons, real-time collaboration and embedded widget sharing. It features particularly notable integration with a variety of collaborative platforms including Google Docs/Apps.
LitBlitz Literature Notes Manager
LitBlitz is free beta Chrome extension that aims to improve how students and researchers manage their notes for literature reviews, assignment research and more by simplifying pdf management, allowing capture and annotation of document snippets LitBlitz v1.0 is currently available as a Google Chrome extension. LitBlitz, while still available on the Google Chrome store no longer appears to be under development, and the company url redirects to a Japanese language web page.
CIrcos
Circos is a software package for visualizing data and information. It visualizes data in a circular layout — this makes Circos ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions. There are other reasons why a circular layout is advantageous, not the least being the fact that it is attractive. Circos is ideal for creating publication-quality infographics and illustrations with a high data-to-ink ratio, richly layered data and pleasant symmetries. You have fine control each element in the figure to tailor its focus points and detail to your audience.
Text Variation Explorer
TVE is an interactive Java tool for exploring the effect of window size on three common linguistic measures: type-token ratio, proportion of hapax legomena, and average word length. In addition, TVE can cluster the text fragments according to a user-given set of words by applying principal component analysis (PCA).
Things
Easy to use task management software for Mac, iPad, and iPhone with synchronisation between all three
Pear Note
Software (Mac only, $40) for taking notes during presentations - allows you to sync text, audio, video, and slides.
Meaki
Meaki allows you to clip, organize and share web pages into a visually engaging Clipset. It is similar to other pinboard applications like Pinterest, but allows users to clip entire websites rather than just images and organize them in a sharable, visual collection. Meaki has a built in social component, clipsets are public and can be browsed by anyone. Meaki is a brower application. Just make an account on Meaki.com and put the “Bookmark Button” in your bookmarks toolbar. Once you come to a webpage you want to clip, click on the Meaki button, and it will guide through clipping and saving the page. Features:
- Simple and easy to use.
- Save webpages for later viewing purposes – never loose a website you love.
- Search other clippings and Clipsets on Meaki to find new and interesting websites.
Mediathread
Mediathread is an open-source platform for exploration, analysis, and organization of web-based multimedia content. It interoperates with a variety of image and video collections (such as YouTube, Flickr, library databases, and course libraries), enabling users to lift items out of these collections and into a scholarly analysis environment. In Mediathread, items can then be clipped, annotated, organized, and embedded into compositions and other written analysis.
LimeSurvey
Online web survey tool written in PHP using MySQL, MSSQL or Postgres database. Multilingual site with demo, feature list, documentation [Open Source, GPL3]
LimeService
LimeService is basically the hosted version of the GNU licensed LimeSurvey. It is a survey service-platform to prepare, run and evaluate on-line surveys. Besides basic free usage you are always getting the full feature set with no monthly fees or subscription plans. I've used it before and found it to pretty robust.
Digitate
Digitate is a free application designed for use on the iOS platform, specifically on iPad devices. The application allows scholars and enthusiasts with an interest in the visual and material elements of a cultural artefact to make notes and annotations directly on an image of such an artefact. For example, a literary scholar might use it to annotate the material or bibliographic elements of a rare text or first edition, while an art historian might do the same on an image of a painting. An online video describing its use is at http://youtu.be/69CKhuiak0Q
Nomenklatura
Nomenklatura is a reference data recon server. It is a service that allows users to define and manage manage lists of canonical entities (e.g. person or organization names) and aliases that connect to one of the canonical entities. This helps to clean up messy data in which a single entity may be referred to by many names.It includes a user interface, an API, and a reconciliation endpoint for OpenRefine for matching data from data sets with the canonical entries. By submitting data to Nomenklatura, users agree to license it under the terms of the Open Database License.
NodeXL Network Graphs
From the website: NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 that makes it easy to explore network graphs. With NodeXL, you can enter a network edge list in a worksheet, click a button and see your graph, all in the familiar environment of the Excel window. (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) The book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World is the most comprehensive source on NodeXL. Accompanying slides and datasets are available on the NodeXL Teaching Resources page. (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/documentation)
Juxta Commons
The Juxta family of software (Juxta, Juxta WS, and Juxta Commons) allows you to compare and collate versions of the same textual work. Juxta Commons is an online space powered by the open-source Juxta Web Service that lets you collate sets of two or more texts and share online visualizations of the differences between them. Side-by-side or "heat map" visualizations can be viewed on the Juxta Commons site, while embedding codes are available for sharing a compact version of the heat map visualization on your own blog or website. Collation results can also be output as an XML file with TEI parallel segmentation markup, or as a Word document or HTML file with a base text and traditional textual apparatus. Development of Juxta Commons was sponsored by NINES.
Statwing
Statwing is an easy-to-use, web-based tool for data analysis and visualization. Upload data, select variables of interest, and Statwing automatically selects statistical tests and visualizations, then distills the results into plain English sentences (as well as traditional statistical output for those so inclined). Free trial available, as well as multiple pricing plans:
- Statwing Silver — $50/month (unlimited datasets up to 50 MB each)
- Statwing Gold — $100/month (unlimited datasets up to 500 MB each)
- Statwing Enterprise — Inquire for cost (unlimited datasets up to 5 GB each, optional on-premise deploy)
Ptolemaic
Ptolemaic is a computer application for music visualization and analysis written in the Java programming language. The software is designed to aid in the analysis of all types of Western music using established analytical techniques, including tonal functional analysis (Harrison 1994), pitch-class set analysis (Forte 1973), hierarchical linear analysis (Schenker 1935, Jones 2002), tonal pitch-space analysis on the Tonnetz (Riemann 1915), pitch-class set analysis (Forte 1973), and transformation analysis (Lewin 1987). Musical works and excerpts may be opened and saved using the de-facto standard music notation interchange format, MusicXML. To assist in analysis, Ptolemaic can display the music on a pitch/time graph, on a pitch-class/time graph, on a step-class/time graph (also called a diatonic lattice) (Jones 2002), on the Tonnetz, or using filtered point-symmetry (Douthett 2008). Pitch classes and chords are color coded so that the user can easily correlate them across each graph. The benefit of having a software tool to visualize and perform certain analysis tasks is in automating processes that are normally time-consuming for the musician, thus allowing the music scholar to focus on the musical issues, rather than the technical issues of graphing, and calculating chord classes. Ptolemaic provides useful ways of visualizing a piece of music and tools for gaining more information about that music, so that the user can efficiently make informed musical decisions about the music and preserve that analysis for future study.
sheetsee.js
"Sheetsee.js is a JavaScript library, or box of goodies, if you will, that makes it easy to use a Google Spreadsheet as the database feeding the tables, charts and maps on a website. Once set up, any changes to the spreadsheet will be auto-saved by Google and be live on your site when a visitor refreshes the page. Using Google Spreadsheets as the backend database is awesome because it is easy to use, share and collaborate with." -- website
Artifex Press
Artifex Press is a publishing and technology company that digitally publishes catalogues raisonnés, a comprehensive, annotated documentation of all of the known artworks by an artists. They have developed a proprietary, patented software platform and a dedicated publishing program in order to create digital catalogues raisonnés. They offer both their own digital catalogues raisonnés and the ability to licence the software to produce your own projects. Catalogues raisonnés have typically been published book but the information they contain is constantly in flux and printed versions are rarely complete and accurate for long. The online version produced by Artifex Press is more accessible, more flexible, more time- and cost-efficient, and above all, more accurate and up-to-date than the traditional printed counterpart.In addition to the digital publication, Artifex Press creates digital archives for all the artists with whom they work. The Artifex Press software is available for licensing, for catalogue raisonné projects run by outside organizations including artist studios, foundations, and estates. The company is open to new collaborations looking to preserve the legacy and intellectual property of artists and estates. Research & Archive Tool
- Digital content management:
- create links between artworks, publications, exhibitions, collectors, venues, institutions, and other relevant categories
- build artwork records with data files such as title, date, medium, dimensions, inscriptions, editions, provenance, condition, installation instructions, and comments
- store multiple images and private documents in each record
- Web-accessible: software is available anywhere with an internet connection
- Unlimited storage: there are no storage limits and performance of your catalogue is not affected by large data sets
- Attention to your needs: Software has been shaped by the feedback of multiple catalogue editors, researchers, and artist studio managers to determine the most useful, practical, and intuitive tools and features
- Compatibility: You can import existing databases and convert them to fit Artifex fields without losing information
- Publish to a selected audience only: control your user group or make your content available to the public
- Publish while withholding confidential information: define public and archive only sections of your collection
- Flexible design: customize the look and feel of your catalogue including the homepage, artwork views and editorial pages
- Ease of navigation: design features have been rigorously tested to ensure ease of use
- Multimedia content: include any number of images, videos, audio clips, and other multimedia content
- Real-time accuracy & cataloguing: by updating provenance as well as exhibition and literature histories, you can maintain the accuracy of the content; you can also expand the catalogue to include newly discovered information and newly created artworks.
- Assistance: Artifex Press are available to make the editing and publishing process as easy as possible. For more information or to set up a live tour of the software and learn about their research & editorial servces contact: [email protected]
Aeon Timeline
Aeon Timeline is more like an abstract temporal entity management program. I t happens to use a visual timeline, but it allows for conceptual linking of people, places, events in a rather clever fashion. It is intended for brainstorming and collecting via flexible input and export. With Aeon, you can divide your timeline into logical groups, projects, or concurrent arcs. You can model the relationships between events and people, places and ideas. Aeon calculates people's ages for you. And you can link your events with research material such as external files or images that can be displayed inside the application.
SnagIt
Simple screencasting and image capture tool. SnagIt is part of TechSmith's family of screen capture and video editing products. Jing offers fewer features, but is a free alternative. Camtasia is the most fully featured of the products, but also the most expensive.
Specify Collections Management Software
Specify is a database platform for museum and herbarium research data. It manages species and specimen information for computerizing biological collections, tracking museum specimen transactions, linking images to specimen records and publishing catalog data to the Internet. Specify is written in Java for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux computers and uses the relational data manager, MySQL, as its data engine. Specify, Java, and MySQL are free and open-source. Specify supports data from specimens, taxonomic and stratigraphic classifications, field notebooks, DNA sequence runs, literature references, as well as from other primary sources. It also manages the information associated with repository agreements, accessions, conservation treatments, collection object containers, images, and document attachments. Data fields in Specify’s form windows can be selected, organized, re-named, and re-sized to suit your curatorial preferences and to eliminate the need for tabbing through multiple data forms. Specify’s “tree” data windows for taxonomy, geography, storage location, chronostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy provide intuitive access to hierarchical data for editing, drag-and-drop synonymization, re-parenting, and for discovering linked collection objects.
SibMEI 1.0
(From author Andrew Hankinson): I´m pleased to announce the release of SibMEI 1.0, a Sibelius to MEI plugin. Currently it only exports to MEI from Sibelius (no import). Special thanks to Micah Walter for his work on it this summer. You can download it from the GitHub "Releases" page: https://github.com/DuChemin/sibmei/releases To install: - Download the plugin (either .zip or .tar.gz) - Quit Sibelius if you have it open - Place the "sibmei" folder in your Sibelius plugins folder. See this page for help on how to find this folder on your system: http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugins/index.html?help=install - Restart Sibelius. The plugin should be available in your Plugins drop down bar. To use, simply choose "Export to MEI" from your plugins list. If you find any bugs, please help out by filing an issue on the GitHub Bug Tracker: https://github.com/DuChemin/sibmei/issues. The development of this plugin was supported by two organizations: - The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) sponsored the initial development through a visiting research position at the University of Virginia; - The DuChemin Project, led by Richard Freedman at Haverford College and funded by grants from the NEH and Haverford College, sponsored further development in the summer of 2013. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
VexFlow
VexFlow is an open-source online music notation rendering API. It is written completely in JavaScript, and runs right in the browser. VexFlow supports HTML5 Canvas and SVG.
meiView
(from web page) Historical musical pieces make their way to us through multiple documents and it often happens that multiple sources introduce differences and variants in the music. meiView is an experimental web application designed to display 15–16th century music and provide a dynamic mechanism for the user to select which variant they want to see. meiView is an open source software licensed under Apache 2.0. See the source code on Github
MEItoVexFlow
(from web page)
A JavaScript library which provides a function for converting MEI
Augmented Notes
(from web page) Augmented Notes integrates scores and audio files to produce interactive multimedia websites in which measures of the score are highlighted in time with music. To get started making your own website, upload mp3 and ogg versions of your audio file, images of the pages of your score, and, if you have one, an MEI file containing measure boundaries, then hit submit below. Augmented Notes will help you mark the measures on the score and assign them times, and will output a zip file of everything you need to have your own website.
ProProfs Survey Maker
ProProfs Survey Maker is the easiest way to create online surveys for free; get advanced reports and intelligent insights; share their surveys on social networks; as well as embed surveys on website. ProProfs Survey Maker Features: It supports a variety of questions including matching answers, check boxes etc. It is easy to add questions with a gentle drag and drop. Surveys are mobile compliant and can be shared via social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. Videos, Images and Graphics can be uploaded in surveys. Useful Analytics and Reports for further research and evaluation of survey responses. Professional survey templates are available to help create surveys in minutes. Collecting survey taker information is just a single click away with built in fields. Making the survey more organized and visually pleasing to the survey takers with page and section breaks is possible with a single click.
ProProfs Poll Maker
ProProfs Poll Software, offers instructors, educators and organizations advanced options for creating effective online polls, in a matter of minutes. With ProProfs, anyone can create different kinds of polls using multiple choices, checkboxes and essay question types. Users can create text-based polls, image-based polls and even polls with a combination of text, images and videos. A set of advanced customization features allows users to create polls, using different themes, adding comment sections, shuffling answers and even adding an expiry date to the polls. Along with this, ProProfs offers powerful security features, for blocking repeat voting and creating password protected polls. Users also get detailed reports for their polls and get visual representation of statistics in the form of pie charts. Sharing polls is also very easy as users can instantly download the poll votes and results as well as embed the polls to their website, blog or share on social networks. Along with poll software, ProProfs also offers robust online tools such as a survey software and quiz software.
ProProfs Training Software
ProProfs Training Software is a powerful online course creator that allows instructors and educators to create and deliver online courses and assessments to learners. It is an integrated software, using which educational institutions and businesses can create online courses, assessments, surveys and polls for developing comprehensive online training and educational programs. ProProfs supports the facility to upload different kinds of learning materials to online courses such as documents, PDFs, PPTs, videos and even web content such as wikis and blogs. Additionally, ProProfs Training software offers advanced features such as compliance tracking, intelligent reports, training certificates, automated grading, online classrooms and more.
ProProfs Flashcards Maker
ProProfs Flashcards Maker is very popular with both teachers and students for creating memory aids and review lists. Using ProProfs Flashcards, learners can create engaging and informative flashcards by adding images and web-links to flashcards. Learners can create their own sets or even re-use any flashcards set from ProProfs 100,00,00+ flashcards library. Users can also create branded flashcards by customizing the fonts, colors and text to go with their brand. With no complicated software to download or learn, ProProfs is the ideal place to create public or private flashcards.
Nodebox
NodeBox is an application for creating 2D graphics and visualizations. It provides a visual and process-based editor for an underlying Python-based analysis and visualisation package. It is developer-described as a generative design app and this really taps into the serendipitous nature of the environment. The user constructs models and can tweak them in real time via the interface and see the resulting changes too the output. It has been described as being "similar to Processing, but without all the interactivity".
DataTank
The DataTank is an open source tool that publishes data, stored in text-based files (e.g., CSV, XML, JSON) or in binary structures (e.g., SHP files, relational databases). The DataTank reads data from these structures and publishes them to the web using a URI as an identifier, providing these data in any format a user wants regardless of the original data structure. The DataTank requires a server with Apache2 or Nginx, mod rewrite enabled, PHP 5.4 or higher, Git, any database supported by Laravel 4. Features
- Turn any dataset into a RESTful HTTP API
- Allows published data to be requested in any web-readable format or visualization
- Improves the ease, openness, and transparency of data consumption
- Enables data consumers to immediately begin working, without needing to download raw data files
- Provides visualizations for immediate data interpretation and information gathering by civilians
ProProfs eLearning Software
A powerfully simple eLearning authoring tool, ProProfs eLearning Software is ideal for the creation of online trainings or educational programs. Easy to use and extremely effective, ProProfs authoring tool can be used by educators and trainers alike to create high-quality courses and assessments that can be accessed anytime and from anywhere in the world. The eLearning software makes it easy for companies to save time and money by scheduling online training sessions for a team that may be spread across the world. Similarly, educational institutions can also benefit with by making and delivering online courses to students from across the globe. Key Features of ProProfs eLearning Software Create courses using existing PDFs & presentations Test understanding with quizzes & assessments Collect feedback with surveys & polls Advanced reporting and analysis Earn by selling your courses
ProProfs Learning Management System Software
LMS or Learning Management Software allows compelling training programs to be delivered online. LMS is the result of the amalgamation of powerful software combined with digital frameworks that manages curriculum, training materials and evaluation tools. The Learning Management System developed by ProProfs helps trainers and educators to create courses and tests online that can be accessed anywhere and at any point in time. The LMS includes the Quiz software, which is used to create assessments within courses, as well as the Survey and Poll software that is perfect for collecting feedback. ProProfs LMS is bundled up with amazing features such as intelligent course reports, trainee progress reports, automated grading, compliance tracking, training certificates and much more! Key Features: Create courses using existing PDFs & presentations Test understanding with quizzes & assessments Gather feedback with surveys & polls Advanced reporting & analytics Automate grading & training certification Mobile, Tablet & Desktop compliance
ProProfs Knowledgebase Software
ProProfs Knowledge Base is a powerful online knowledge management software that empowers HRs, trainers and top management of a company to manage employee and organizational knowledge. With support for over 90+ languages, ProProfs Knowledge Base allows businesses to easily retain and share knowledge with employees by uploading company documents and files to a central location. HRs can easily share company policies and procedures with new hires and quickly orient them to the company’s culture via a private intra-company knowledgebase. Trainers can also use the knolwedgebase to share articles, videos and know-hows with employees to facilitate training. ProProfs Knowledge Base Features: Create an embeddable online FAQ Create a private intra-company knowledgebase Create knowledgebase in 90+ languages Get detailed reports & analytics Seamlessly export and import files Upload videos, documents, PDFs and more Brand with company logo and colors Get access control and privacy settings Access knowledgebase from any mobile device
Bokeh
Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library for large datasets that natively uses the latest web technologies. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of Protovis/D3, while delivering high-performance interactivity over large data to thin clients.
Writefull
Writefull is a light-weight app that uses data from Google Books (5+ million books) and the Web to improve your writing, It compares small sections of your text to a large data set of writing found online and in Google Books. All you need to do is select a chunk of your text in your browser or text editing software, activate the Writefull popover, and choose one of its five options: 1) check the number of results (how often the chunk appears in Google Books or the Web); 2) compare the number of results (if your selected chunk appears more or less frequently than suggestions from online); 3) see examples in context (display several examples of how your selected chunk is used in different texts); 4) find words in context (see which words are used most often in your context, which you specify in your text by a star. For example, 'research should * this issue' will give you a list with 'research should address this issue', 'research should explore this issue', 'research should examine this issue', etc.); 5) find synonyms in context (see which synonyms of a word are used most often in your context, with you specifying the word you want synonyms for by two stars. For example: 'a *difficult* situation' will suggest 'an awkward situation', 'a serious situation', 'an embarrassing situation', etc). The app works with a small popover which mean you can activate it from whatever writing tool you're using. No need to change windows - no interruption of your workflow. N.B. Writefull 2.0 will be launching soon and will eliminate the need to purchase queries in the Web version. The $5 membership fee still applies.
CartoDB
CartoDB makes data-driven map visualisation tool. It's very easy to upload a couple of spreadsheets of data, with latitudes and longitudes or addresses, and turn them into clickable markers on maps. There are several types of pre-canned visualisation, such as categories, choropleths or even animated "torque" maps. It's also a sophisticated platform allowing complex visualisations to be built up using Javascript and the CartoDB API.
ediarum
With ediarum researchers can comfortably transcribe, encode and edit manuscripts in TEI-XML, as well as publish their results in an online or print edition. The solution, developed by TELOTA, is based on three software components: exist-db, Oxygen XML Author, and ConTeXt. These are combined, supplemented with additional functions, and tailored to fit a project's needs.
Word and Phrase
Word and Phrase utilizes the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to analyze texts for word frequencies, collocations, and concordance lines. Users copy and paste texts into a web interface.
Slack
Slack is a team-based communication and archiving platform. It allows for both synchronous and asynchronous communications, channels for managing specific streams, full user management and integration with a wide variety of social media and storage providers. It is free for limited (rather generous) use and provides one the best means to allow for individual communication patterns within a managed project to be facilitated. Allowing for the quick and informal communications, hashtagged for quick scanning and searching as well as targeted messaging makes it a very compelling project tool. The addition of specific mobile clients with notifications makes it a very effective project management tool.
VSim
VSim facilitates the real-time exploration of highly detailed, three-dimensional computer models in both formal and informal educational settings. Beyond real-time interaction with three-dimensional content, this NEH-funded software offers two critical functions for academic use of interactive computer models: the narrative feature allows users to create linear presentations within the virtual space (akin to PowerPoint or Prezi within a three-dimensional world), and the embedded resource section allows users to embed within the virtual space annotations and links to primary and secondary resources about the modeled environment.
Forio Simulate
This is a great tool to Build and share simulations and interactive data explorations on the web. They have a free version with limited features too.
GeoTemCo
The amount of online data annotated with geospatial and temporal metadata has grown rapidly in the recent years. Providers like Flickr and Twitter are popular, but hard to browse. Many systems exist that, in multiple linked views, show the data under geospatial, temporal, and topical aspects. GeoTemCo is a web-application which easily can be utilized to visualize such kind of data, and furthermore, it allows the comparative analysis of several datasets. GeoTemCo consists of several views showing the datas' several dimensions: a map view for the geospatial distribution of items, a time view for the temporal distribution of items and a detail view for the inspection of individual items. A broad range of interaction abilities allows for explorative comparison and analysis of different datasets representing different topics. GeoTemCo focuses on supporting the user to: - analyze and compare temporal trends - analyze and compare geospatial distributions - detect cooccurences between data items of different datasets - compare geospatial migrations of topics over time - find causalities between different datasets
TRAViz
One of the substantial tasks in the field of textual criticism is called collation, which is the cautious comparison of various editions of one and the same text. The traditional approach of a humanities scholar is to put the texts of several editions next to each other and mark the differences among the textual entities (e.g., sentences, sections, chapters). Since this is an extremely laborious approach many Digital Humanities projects investigate tools that support the humanities scholars with computational methods. TRAViz is a JavaScript library that was developed within the Digital Humanities project eTRACES. It generates visualizations for Text Variant Graphs that show the variations between different editions of texts. TRAViz supports the collation task by providing methods to: - align various editions of a text - visualize the alignment - improve the readability for Text Variant Graphs compared to other approaches - interact with the graph to discover how individual editions disseminate
RAW
Raw is an open web app to create custom vector-based visualisations utilising the D3.js library through a simple interface. It is an open and customizable project and forkable via GitHub. Primarily conceived as a tool for designers and vis geeks, RAW allows to export visualizations in vector (SVG) or raster (PNG) format and embed them in your web page.
ManageWP
ManageWP is a paid service used to manage multiple WordPress instances across multiple servers. It provides dashboard monitoring of performance as well as batch updating and management of themes, plugins, comments, etc. It provides facility for syndication of material across multiple sites as well as aggregated analytics and cloning of WordPress instances.
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BibSonomy
BibSonomy is a social bookmarking and publication-sharing system. It aims to integrate the features of bookmarking systems as well as team-oriented publication management. BibSonomy offers users the ability to store and organize their bookmarks and publication entries and supports the integration of different communities and people by offering a social platform for literature exchange. Both bookmarks and publication entries can be tagged to help structure and re-find information. As the descriptive terms can be freely chosen, the assignment of tags from different users creates a spontaneous, uncontrolled vocabulary: a folksonomy. In BibSonomy, the folksonomy evolves from the participation of research groups, learning communities and individual users, organizing their information needs. Publication posts in BibSonomy are stored in the BibTeX format. Export in other formats such as EndNote or HTML (e. g. for publication list creation) is possible. The service was developed by a team of students and scientists working at the Institute of Knowledge and Data Engineering and is hosted by the University of Kassel in Germany. [Description taken from the Wikipedia article about BiBSonomy]
Annotation Studio
Annotation Studio is an open source, web-based annotation application that integrates a powerful set of textual interpretation tools behind an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Users can upload their own texts, and annotate with styled text, video, images, and weblinks. To date, the project has been used with great success in disciplines such as Writing, Literature, Foreign Languages, Anthropology, Film and Media Studies, and others at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Barnard College, and Washington University.
Pivotal Tracker
Share a project action board in real time, see milestones and upcoming goals. Easy-to-use features allows for edits in the project timeline, and the tracker predicts timeline for next goal achievement based on previously entered data. You can create individual project lines, or stories, that come together to create an epic, or larger project. There are charts showing your historical trends and anything else you'd like to monitor. This tool works with various other apps, listed here: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/community/app-bazaar
Zapier
Zapier provides a means to create on-the-fly data connections between applications which may not have open API's. Zapier works with a wide range of popular applications - a list of current ones is available at: https://zapier.com/zapbook/apps/. The creation of Zaps (specific trigger -action definitions) is done using a simply graphical interface and can perform and wide variety of tasks. Examples include: receive a tweet and add it to a row in a google spreadsheet; add a card to trello from an email; post to Facebook from an RSS feed.
Widen
A marketing technology company offering cloud-based digital asset management that facilitates finding/organizing/sharing images, and media files (video, etc.) Although pricing is custom built based on required features and users, they do offer discounts for non-profit and education institutions. Features include: On-the-fly file conversions for images, audio & video, Image watermarking, Unlimited user roles with configurable permissions, Fully configurable metadata schema with read/write ability, Asset group level security for lifecycle management.
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NowComment
NowComment makes it easy to have rich, engaging discussions of online documents no matter how large (or small) your class or collaboration group. It's fast, powerful, and feature-rich: you can sort comments, skim summaries, create assignments, hide comments, highlight with multiple colors and meanings, and much more. Integrates to any LMS via LTI. Used in universities and K12 schools for the past 6 years.
Voilabits MediaConverterUltimate
Best Media Converter for Mac to convert video or rip DVD to 160+ formats, burn to DVD, download online video, and share to YouTube easily.
Features:
- Convert video/audio files and rip DVD to 160+ formats including 4K Ultra HD
- Burn video to DVD disc, DVD folder and ISO files
- Batch download streaming videos from 50+ popular Websites
- Share to YouTube with a pop-up login window instantly
Gerbil
Gerbil is a generic framework for visualization and analysis of multispectral and hyperspectral data that strives to both bring new innovations in analysis capabilities and be of use in a wide range of hyperspectral data applications. In a nutshell, Gerbil lets you…
- explore a multispectral or hyperspectral image before processing it,
- apply common computer vision algorithms adapted to hyperspectral data,
- cluster and label image pixels for your application scenario,
- assess your own algorithms via high-dimensional data visualization,
- use an intuitive interface for teaching multispectral imaging and reflectance analysis.
cross platform, web-based, firefox plugin
Pixlr online photo editor
This is a free to use online image editor with a fair amount of features. I use this primarily for quick editing jobs such as resizing and cropping small images. The online editor will load images from your computer or via url which is incredibly handy. There is a firefox plug-in available too which makes the time it takes to view an image, edit, and save it, a fast process. The source code for the application is closed, but the dev team does offer a free API. Pixlr also has tools for mobile devices, one of which is paid app for $1.
SalesForce
ReferenceEdge
Managing your customer reference information and content is an intrinsic part of CRM. If Salesforce is your CRM solution then you want your Sales team to find reference functionality and information where it’s most convenient: Opportunities, Accounts and Contacts. The marketing team should operate in the same environment as Sales, enabling effortless navigation between reference management tasks and standard Salesforce records such as Accounts, Contacts, Cases and Opportunities. All reference data should reside in the same place, be real-time, and be accessible using Salesforce Reports and Dashboards. Distill over 10 years of experience supporting enterprise customer reference programs and package those best practices into a native Salesforce app, and you have ReferenceEdge. There's no need for syncing, no API integration, and all your data and reference management functionality is accessed through a single pane of glass: Salesforce. ReferenceEdge leverages standard Salesforce components and features such as Salesforce Chatter®, workflow, tasks, role hierarchy, profiles and permission sets. A native solution ensures maximum user adoption, reduced learning curve, and scalability.
AVA (Advanced Video Annotations)
The AVA (Advanced Video Annotations) project is a video annotation service that is suitable for research, teaching or learning. Architected as a stand-alone service, AVA can be integrated with most video players, video management systems, learning management systems, and lecture capture systems. An implementation is done with a) SWITCHcast: http://www.switch.ch/cast b) Opencast Matterhorn: http://opencast.org/matterhorn/
JavaScript
plot.ly
Plot.ly is a free to educational (public) user web-based graphic tool that combined leading edge visualisations with a user-friendly, guided creation experience. Accepting data in a variety of forms, it leads the user through creation and sharing and then facilitates discussion around the output objects. The data, the code and any algorithm transformations are freely accessible to all users and products are easily embedded in other documents for presentation purposes. Plot.ly also offer their services on a paid basis to enterprise users. plotly.js is a freely available javascript framework open for developers.
BLLIP Parser
BLLIP Parser (or Charniak-Johnson parser) is a statistical natural language parser for analyzing text to determine its grammatical structure. Grammatical structures are provided in Penn Treebank format.
Umigon
Umigon is a free tool for sentiment analysis on Twitter. Main features:
- Export to Excel and csv
- Distinction between sentiments ("I hate war", will be classified as negative sentiment) and negative factuals ("war has been declared", will be declared as neutral)
- Connects to twitter or allows free text input
Annotations
Annotating documents with highlights and notes can quickly clutter the page. Annotations simplifies adding and managing notes to texts while keeping the documents clear and readable. Features
- Highlight text with colours, assign custom keywords or add notes
- Auto-completion to match existing keywords as you type
- Organise and filter annotations by collections, type, keywords or matching search criteria
- Create relationships between different annotations
- Summary mode to view and export only what has been highlighted or provided with notes
- Import support for plain text, rich text and Microsoft® Word documents
Ghost
Ghost is a free, open source publishing platform. Also available as a hosted service for a monthly subscription cost.
ConedaKOR
Fedora Commons, TomCat, Cocoon, Java
iPhone, iPod, and iPad
Android
Basement Waterproofing: Tips and Instructions
OpenStreetMap
MapCraft
MapCraft is a tool for tracking mapping progress during a mapping party or other coordinated project taking place in a concentrated area. It shows a cake diagram as a bunch of clickable areas, with the ability to take ownership of cake slices, as well as commenting on them, and chatting to eachother about it. It takes the concept of a "cake diagram" and makes it more dynamic. The tool also allows rating the cake slices by progress, which is then shown prominently as different colourisation. This was designed for realtime collaboration on sketching aerial imagery. It was conceived by and for the Russian OpenStreetMap community. It provides a means to self-manage a community, crowdsourced mapping project.
Odyssey.js
MapStory
Photogrammar
Old Maps Online
MapBox
Polldaddy
Create polls, surveys and quizzes and get ratings/feedback on content from users. "All languages supported." The free version has fewer options. At the paid levels there are design options such as customized branding and CSS control; collection options include 10k-50k (depending on purchased plan) of monthly participants and password restriction; and it is in the reporting methods that this program has the most depth: real-time results, charts, the ability to export responses and reports as Excel, PDF, Google Docs, CSV or XML, filtering options, text analysis, tagging, email notifications of new responses, and priority customer service. Also, you can add images, videos, and content from YouTube, Flickr, and Google Maps. This works with Wordpress. This was previously Surveydaddy and has been upgraded to Polldaddy.
ipad, iphone, iPod touch
Chrome, Firefox
Iphone, iPod touch, Android
HTTP Web server
OS X 10.7 (Lion) or later
Saxon SXLT Processor
Java
nid:453
Channelkit
Channelkit lets you save, organize and share links to websites, articles, places, videos and anything else you might need on the web and discover content curated by others.
ScoreCloud
Easiest to use music notation software “Like Google Translate for music” ScoreCloud instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that! - Instant Score from MIDI or Audio - Arrange and Edit your Score - Print, Export and Share Ideal for musicians, students, teachers, choirs and bands as well as composers and arrangers.
Windows 7 or newer
http://git-scm.com/
RubyGems
NodeJS
Python 2.4 or later
Flash
Java Virtual Machine (1.6 or newer)
Java applet
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (will automatically install)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (will automatically install) on DiRT
Will run in 64-bit mode.
Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, iOS app
