Apache

tool: Solr

Purpose:

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.

Features:

• May be tailored to many types of application with minimal programming knowledge
• Extensive plug-in support
• Full-text indexing and search

A&H use case 1 description:

The “British Cartoon Archive Digitisation (BCAD)” project has used Solr to deliver the search results and metadata.

Creator:

CNET Networks

Publisher:

Apache Software Foundation

Data analysis:

Searching and querying

Topic Detection and Tracking

Specifications:

Software/programming languages used:

Solr

Apache SOLR

Suite:

Apache

Data structuring and enhancement:

Cataloguing and indexing

Alternate tool(s):

Sphynx

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By Valentina Asciutti at Mon, 19/04/2010 - 10:40

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tool: Lucene

Purpose:

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

Features:

• Scalable, high-performance indexing
• Powerful, accurate and efficient search algorithms
• Cross-platform solution

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Freeze Frame – Historic Polar Images 1845-1960” project has used Lucene for advanced search of photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.

Creator:

Doug Cutting

Publisher:

Apache Software Foundation

Data analysis:

Topic Detection and Tracking

Specifications:

Software/programming languages used:

Lucene

Apache Lucene

Suite:

Apache

Data structuring and enhancement:

Cataloguing and indexing

Alternate tool(s):

InQuira, Verity, dtSearch, ISYS

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By Valentina Asciutti at Mon, 19/04/2010 - 10:27

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tool: MMax2

Purpose:

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

A&H use case 1 description:

The MMax2 annotation tool has been used by the Embedded GeoCrossWalk project to perform annotation of the Stormont Papers resource.

Publisher:

EML Research gGmbH

Creator:

Christoph Muller

Software/programming languages used:

MMAX2

Data capture:

Text recognition

Specifications:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

Java

Communication and collaboration:

Textual interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

Apache

Discipline:

Classics and Ancient History

English Language and Literature

Modern Languages

History

Data analysis:

Content analysis

Searching and querying

Visualisation

Data publishing and dissemination:

Collaborative publishing

User contributed content

Tags:

annotation

corpus linguistics

Corpus annotation

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Preservation

Practice-led research:

Texture design and mapping

Alternate tool(s):

NXT (NITE XML), Annotate

Data structuring and enhancement:

Text encoding - descriptive

Text encoding - referential

Licence:

Apache

Platform:

All major operating systems

lifecycleStage:

structuring

analysis

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 12/03/2010 - 10:33

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tool: Subversion Version System (SVN)

Purpose:

An open source version control system that is used to manage multiple versions of data objects in a controlled environment. Access and revision to objects are carefully controlled, to prevent unauthorised access and alteration.

Features:

• Version support for all files and directories in repository, enabling administrator to track changes that have occurred and obtain earlier versions of files
• Free-form versioned metadata
• Atomic commits
• Merge tracking
• File locking
• 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

A&H use case 1 description:

The Citation and Allusion project has used Subversion to document different versions of files as the work on the project proceeded.

Creator:

CollabNet

Publisher:

Apache Software Foundation

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Security planning

Specifications:

PHP

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

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eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

Alternate tool(s):

CVS

Licence:

Apache

lifecycleStage:

structuring

Platform:

All major operating systems

By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:11

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tool: Xalan

Purpose:

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

A&H use case 1 description:

The Tibetan text project used Xalan to convert Classical Tibetan texts stored as XML into other formats for publication.

A&H use case 2 description:

The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub has used Xalan to convert XML tagged copies of the revised Anglo-Norman Dictionary between XML and HTML.

Creator:

Apache Software Foundation

Publisher:

Apache Software Foundation

Data publishing and dissemination:

General website development

Data capture:

Use of existing digital data

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Data structuring and enhancement:

Coding and standardisation

Tags:

XPath

eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

Software/programming languages used:

Xalan

Platform:

All major operating systems

Licence:

Apache

Specifications:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)

XPath

By garethknight at Thu, 11/02/2010 - 10:58

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tool: Fedora Commons

Purpose:

An architectural framework upon which a digital asset management (DAM) may be built. Fedora Commons (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) is widely used in the academic sector as a basis for the creation of an digital library, archive, or repository system. Fedora provides a set of software tools to ingest, manage and deliver digital objects. Fedora Objects may contain many types of information, including descriptive, technical, preservation and relationship metadata.

Features:

Granular object management via implementer-defined content models
Data available via Web APIs (REST/SOAP)
RDF search (SPARQL)
Rebuilder Utility (for disaster recovery and data migration)
OAI-PMH Provider Service
GSearch (fulltext) Search Service

A&H use case 1 description:

The East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) implemented a Fedora-based digital repository to store and deliver digitised copies of playbills, press cuttings, photographs and other material held by the V&A Theatre Collection and various East London theatres.

Creator:

Cornell University, University of Virginia and several third-parties

Publisher:

Duraspace

Data analysis:

Indexing

Data structuring and enhancement:

Cataloguing and indexing

Data publishing and dissemination:

Resource sharing

Specifications:

REST/SOAP