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Photography

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tool: QuarkXPress

Purpose:

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

A&H use case 1 description:

The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) project used QuarkXPress alongside other tools to create an electronic archive of medieval polyphonic music images. The purpose of the archive is to allow detailed study of the music and its sources as well as to ensure their preservation.

Creator:

Quark Inc

Software/programming languages used:

Quark Xpress

Data publishing and dissemination:

General website development

Collaborative publishing

Specifications:

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Unicode

PhotoShop Document (PSD)

QuarkXpress Document (QXD)

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Discipline:

Data structuring and enhancement:

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Alternate tool(s):

Adobe InDesign

Practice-led research:

Licence:

GPS and total station surveys

lifecycleStage:

publishing

By danafarra at Wed, 02/06/2010 - 09:57

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tool: ERDAS Imagine

Purpose:

ERDAS Imagine is a suite of geospatial 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, movies, and on cartographic quality map compositions.

Features:

• Image Analysis, Remote Sensing & GIS
• 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)

A&H use case 1 description:

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used ERDAS Imagine to analyse 3D seismic datasets acquired on the United Kingdom continental shelf and explore Late Quaternary and Holocene geology over the area of the Southern North Sea.

Publisher:

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)

Creator:

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)

Software/programming languages used:

ERDAS Imagine

Data capture:

Remote sensing

Specifications:

Javascript

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

JPEG

Java

Ajax frameworks

J2EE

Erdas Macro Language (EML)

Communication and collaboration:

Video-based interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ERDAS Imagine

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

Data analysis:

Data publishing and dissemination:

Tags:

GIS

Remote sensing

Geospatial technology

Raster image

multispectral images

Strategy and project management:

Human factors analysis

Practice-led research:

Alternate tool(s):

SPRING, Virtual Terrain Project (VTP),

Data structuring and enhancement:

Animation

Licence:

Platform:

GPS and total station surveys

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By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:22

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tool: ArcGIS

Purpose:

ArcGIS is a suite of software that comprises of Desktop GIS, Server GIS, Mobile GIS, and Online GIS. 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

A&H use case 1 description:

ArcGIS was used in the Mapping Medieval Chester project to integrate geographical and literary mappings of the medieval city using cartographic and textual sources and using these to understand more how urban landscapes in the Middle Ages were interpreted and navigated by local inhabitants.

A&H use case 2 description:

ArcGIS was used in the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project to investigate the relationship between people and their environment, from the Neolithic period to the present day on the island of Cyprus. ArcGIS was used to gather, analyse and map geomorphological data.

Publisher:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Creator:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Data capture:

Geophysical survey

Specifications:

Microsoft's .NET Framework

Java

COM

Visual Basic

TCP/IP

Unified Modelling Language (UML)

Visual C++

Delphi

Data publishing and dissemination:

Disk publishing

Collaborative publishing

Audio-visual interaction (synchronous)

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (synchronous)

Software/programming languages used:

Discipline:

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Data structuring and enhancement:

Cataloguing and indexing

Graphical rendering

Alternate tool(s):

GRASS (Geographic Analysis Support System) GIS, ThinkGeo

Tags:

GIS

Geospatial computing

Geospatial technology

Strategy and project management:

Practice-led research:

Platform:

2d scanning and photography

lifecycleStage:

Licence:

Suite:

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:08

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tool: ABBYY Fine Reader

Purpose:

A highly intelligent OCR (optical character recognition) software 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

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Digital Library of Core e-Resource on Ireland” project has used ABBYY Fine Reader to digitise collections of Irish journals, monographs, manuscripts and pamphlets.

Publisher:

ABBYY

Data capture:

Specifications:

Software/programming languages used:

ABBYY FineReader

Suite:

ABBYY

Practice-led research:

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Alternate tool(s):

OmniPage Professional

Licence:

lifecycleStage:

Platform:

By Valentina Asciutti at Fri, 26/03/2010 - 16:40

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tool: CONTENTdm

Purpose:

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.

Features:

• supports numerous industry standards including Unicode, Z39.50, Qualified Dublin Core, VRA, XML, JPEG2000 and OAI-PMH
• flexible and fully customisable
• integration with OCLC products
• not limited by format

A&H use case 1 description:

The “First World War Poetry Digital Archive” project has used CONTENTdm to form the backend of the archive of highly valued primary material from major poets of the First World War period.

Creator:

CISO, Center for Information Systems Optimization

Publisher:

OCLC

Software/programming languages used:

CONTENTdm

Data analysis:

Indexing

Content analysis

Searching and querying

Topic Detection and Tracking

Specifications:

Platform:

Discipline:

Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies

Data structuring and enhancement:

Cataloguing and indexing

Alternate tool(s):

Fedora Commons, DigiTool, MetaStar

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tool: RivEx

Purpose:

RivEx is a river network tool designed to run under ESRI ArcMap 9.1. It allows for quality control and analysis of the river network and creation of node layers.

Features:

• Process connected river centre lines
• Generate new node layers for the nodes of the network
• Attribute your network including stream order
• Convert your network to a measured network
• Re-orientate (flip) network polylines
• Quality controlled snapping of sites to the river network
• Export river network data to KML (Google Earth) format

A&H use case 1 description:

RivEx was used in conjunction with ESRI ArcMap on the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to map the river network that was part of the prehistoric landscape stretching from the English Channel to the Norwegian coast line.

Publisher:

RivEx

Creator:

Duncan Hornby

Data publishing and dissemination:

Specifications:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Communication and collaboration:

Data analysis:

lifecycleStage:

Discipline:

Data capture:

Use of existing digital data

Data structuring and enhancement:

Tags:

Strategy and project management:

Human factors analysis

Alternate tool(s):

MotherPlanet

Practice-led research:

3d graphic design

Texture design and mapping

Virtual world modelling

Platform:

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft Windows XP

Software/programming languages used:

Rivex

Licence:

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 19/03/2010 - 15:15

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tool: Mercury Amira

Purpose:

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

A&H use case 1 description:

Amira was used on the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to visualise and analyse the vast amounts of data that were collected.

Publisher:

Visage Imaging GmbH

Creator:

Mercury Software Systems

Data publishing and dissemination:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Specifications:

C++

Communication and collaboration:

Data analysis:

Content analysis

Image segmentation

Visualisation

Spatial data analysis

lifecycleStage:

Discipline:

Data capture:

2d scanning and photography

3d scanning

Geophysical survey

GPS and total station surveys

Data structuring and enhancement:

Virtual world modelling

Tags:

Strategy and project management:

Alternate tool(s):

Avizo

Practice-led research:

3d graphic design

Image manipulation

Platform:

Software/programming languages used:

Mercury Amira

Licence:

Audio-visual interaction (synchronous)

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:21

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tool: Exceed

Purpose:

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.

Features:

• Allows users to connect Microsoft Windows desktops to a wide variety of X Window-enabled servers and access X applications.

A&H use case 1 description:

Exceed was used the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to link up different datasets that were available on different operating platforms.

Publisher:

Open Text

Creator:

Hummingbird Ltd.

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (synchronous)

Textual interaction (synchronous)

Data capture:

Use of existing digital data

Data publishing and dissemination:

Collaborative publishing

Data analysis:

Searching and querying

Text mining

Specifications:

Microsoft Visual C/C++

lifecycleStage:

structuring

analysis

publishing

Data structuring and enhancement:

Cataloguing and indexing

Coding and standardisation

Data modelling

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Graphical rendering

Record linkages

Alternate tool(s):

MicroXwin, X Window System

Tags:

x window system

networked computers

x11

Strategy and project management:

General project management

Preservation

Software/programming languages used:

Microsoft Excel

Platform:

Licence:

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 19/03/2010 - 11:22

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tool: TextPad

Purpose:

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

A&H use case 1 description:

The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture project has used Textpad to produce archive formats of the data collected to publish catalogues of all the Anglo-Saxon carved stones.

Publisher:

Helios Software Solutions

Creator:

Helios Software Solutions

Tags:

text editing

Specifications:

ASCII

Licence: