GNU General Public License

tool: Omeka

Purpose: 

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.

Features: 

* Free, Open-source
* Easy to use
* Extensible, scalable, and flexible
* Standards-based metadata and web design
* Interoperable
* Contribution Plugin
* Geolocation Plugin
* Google Translate Plugin
* OAI-PMH Harvester

Publisher: 
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media,George Mason University
Creator: 
Center for History and New Media,George Mason University
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Desktop publishing and pre-press
General website development
Interface design
Collaborative publishing
Resource sharing
Software/programming languages used: 
Omeka
Discipline: 
Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Solaris
Mac OS X
PHP
All major operating systems
Mac OS 9
Apache
Ubuntu
Fedora
Specifications: 
PHP
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Dublin Core
ATOM
Powerpoint Document (.ppt)
JSON
RSS2
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Tags: 
archiving
data management
CMS
web-publishing
web content management
Alternate tool(s): 

DSpace

Strategy and project management: 
General project management
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
lifecycleStage: 
creation
structuring
publishing
By Valentina Asciutti at Fri, 07/10/2011 - 15:03

tool: FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager

Purpose: 

Open source Digital Asset Management solution designed for medium size preservation, cataloguing, media archiving and batch transcoding.

Creator: 
Daydream Interactive Limited
Specifications: 
Embedded metadata formats
XML
Image Documents (.jpg) (.gif) (.png) (.tiff) (.bmp) Open Office
Macromedia Flash
MPEG-4
Software/programming languages used: 
ImageMagick
Microsoft SQL Server
.NET
FFMPEG
T-SQL
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Communication and collaboration: 
Resource sharing
Graphical interaction (synchronous)
Textual interaction (asynchronous)
Textual interaction (synchronous)
Video-based interaction (asynchronous)
Data analysis: 
Collating
Indexing
Content analysis
Data mining
Image feature measurement
Image segmentation
Overlaying
Statistical analysis
Text mining
Data capture: 
Manual input and transcription
Text recognition
Use of existing digital data
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Graphical rendering
Text encoding - presentational
Text encoding - referential
Record linkages
Video and moving image compression
Practice-led research: 
Animation
Photography
Image manipulation
Video editing
Video post production
Tags: 
digital asset management
Digital Preservation
archival software
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Server scripting
Streaming media
Collaborative publishing
User contributed content
Strategy and project management: 
General project management
Preservation
Curation
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
.net
By daydream at Wed, 10/11/2010 - 10:03

tool: EATS

Purpose: 

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

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Gascon Rolls Project uses EATS to record entity information and aid markup of the TEI XML as part of automatically creating indices of people and places.
Creator: 
Jamie Norrish
Publisher: 
Jamie Norrish
Communication and collaboration: 
Resource sharing
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Resource sharing
Data capture: 
Manual input and transcription
Specifications: 
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) XML
Python
Django
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Record linkages
Alternate tool(s): 

There are no direct alternatives, but Virtual International Authority File (http://viaf.org/) matches and links authority files across national libraries.

Tags: 
linked data
Entity Management
Authority Control
Authority Access
Software/programming languages used: 
EATS
Platform: 
Python
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
By ctupman at Mon, 07/06/2010 - 14:00

tool: Plone

Purpose: 

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

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “Concordia” project has used Plone to run the Pleiades website.
Creator: 
Alexander Limi, Alan Runyan, and Vidar Andersen
Publisher: 
Plone Foundation
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Desktop publishing and pre-press
General website development
Interface design
Specifications: 
PHP
Javascript
Perl
Python
CSS
XML
DOC
PDF
AWK
XHTML
Suite: 
Plone Foundation
Software/programming languages used: 
Plone
Tags: 
publishing
open source
Content management
web-server
Alternate tool(s): 

Automne, Drupal, Joomla

Licence: 
GNU General Public License
lifecycleStage: 
creation
publishing
Platform: 
All major operating systems
By Valentina Asciutti at Mon, 19/04/2010 - 11:14

tool: MantisBT

Purpose: 

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

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “First World War Poetry Digital Archive” project has used MantisBT to track development and the use cases developed were used as reference points for successful development prior to user testing.
Creator: 
Kenzaburo Ito and Victor Boctor
Publisher: 
Futureware Pty Ltd
Strategy and project management: 
Accessibility analysis
General project management
System quality assurance and code testing
Data analysis: 
Topic Detection and Tracking
lifecycleStage: 
analysis
Specifications: 
CSS
HTML
CSV
DOC
XLS
Tags: 
RSS
Tracking
css
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
PHP
scripting language
MySQL
Alternate tool(s): 

JIRA, Trac, Bugzilla

Platform: 
All major operating systems
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Software/programming languages used: 
Mantis
MantisBT
By Valentina Asciutti at Fri, 26/03/2010 - 14:20

tool: Perl

Purpose: 

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

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “Developing Archival Context Standards for Functions in the Higher Education Sector” project has used Perl to develop the web interface. Perl was used to design simple navigation between the various data components, free-text and index controlled searching based on the underlying structure of the XML formatted data and an easy means of updating existing data.
Creator: 
Larry Wall
Publisher: 
Perl.org
Strategy and project management: 
System quality assurance and code testing
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Disk publishing
Desktop publishing and pre-press
Server scripting
Web browser scripting
General website development
lifecycleStage: 
creation
Specifications: 
PHP
Java
C
C++
Ruby
Microsoft's .NET Framework
Apache HTTP server
Tags: 
JAVA
PHP
Programming language
Alternate tool(s): 

Ruby, Java, Python

Platform: 
All major operating systems
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Artistic License
Software/programming languages used: 
Perl
By Valentina Asciutti at Thu, 04/03/2010 - 12:21

tool: Praat

Purpose: 

A software application that may be used to analyse, synthesise, and manipulate speech in phonetics, and create visual representations of the audio recording.

Features: 

• Speech analysis
• Speech synthesis
• Configurability
• Programmability
• Integrated mathematical and phonetic symbols

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music” project has used Praat for phonetic analysis and sound manipulation of audio recordings.
Creator: 
Paul Boersma and David Weenink
Publisher: 
Institute of Phonetic Sciences - University of Amsterdam
Data analysis: 
Sound analysis
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Sound editing
Data capture: 
Music recognition
Speech recognition
Specifications: 
Lisp
EPS
AIFF
AIFC
WAV
NeXT/Sun
NIST
FLAC
MP3
lifecycleStage: 
analysis
Practice-led research: 
Sound editing
Alternate tool(s): 

Speech Analyzer

Tags: 
Speech analysis
phonetics
Software/programming languages used: 
Praat
Platform: 
All major operating systems
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:38

tool: epcEdit

Purpose: 

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
A&H use case 1 description: 
The DIL project used epcEdit to structure digitised text of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language. Text is marked-up in conformance to TEI XML guidelines.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub used epcEdit to mark-up sections of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary in conformance to TEI XML.
Publisher: 
Heinz-Detlev Koch
Creator: 
Heinz-Detlev Koch
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Coding and standardisation
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
lifecycleStage: 
creation
analysis
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)
Tags: 
sgml
html
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
parser
Alternate tool(s): 

oXygen XML editor

Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Solaris
Licence: 
commercial
GNU General Public License
Software/programming languages used: 
epcEdit XML editor
epcedit
By garethknight at Thu, 11/02/2010 - 12:36

tool: EPrints.org

Purpose: 

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: 
  • OAI-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
A&H use case 1 description: 
The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 (RED) has used EPrints to catalogue information on publications that were read by those living in Britain between 1450-1945.
Creator: 
University of Southampton
Publisher: 
University of Southampton
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Resource sharing
Specifications: 
Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
Perl
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Dublin Core
EP3-XML
METS
MODS
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
Strategy and project management: 
Curation
Alternate tool(s): 

Fedora Commons, DSpace

Tags: 
preservation
digital repository
institutional repository
oais
eprints
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Ubuntu
Debian
Redhat
Fedora
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Software/programming languages used: 
GNU E-Prints
eprints
By garethknight at Wed, 10/02/2010 - 09:57

tool: Pycoon

Purpose: 

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
A&H use case 1 description: 
The CURSUS project used Pycoon to publish data associated with medieval Latin liturgy.
Creator: 
anrienord
Publisher: 
anrienord
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Coding and standardisation
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Interface design
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI)
Tags: 
Python
wsgi
cocoon
sitemap
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Alternate tool(s): 

Apache Cocoon

Platform: 
Python
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Software/programming languages used: 
Pycoon
By garethknight at Fri, 29/01/2010 - 19:18

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