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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:

All major operating systems

Specifications:

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:

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

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tool: Oracle Database

Purpose:

Oracle Database is a relational database management system (RDBMS).

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

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS)” project has used Oracle Database to store all the geographically-located historical statistics for Great Britain.

Creator:

Software Development Laboratories (SDL)

Publisher:

Oracle Corporation

Data analysis:

Data mining

Specifications:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

Software/programming languages used:

Oracle Database

Suite:

Oracle

Data capture:

Manual input and transcription

Alternate tool(s):

Firebird, Ingres

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By Valentina Asciutti at Thu, 17/06/2010 - 10:25

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tool: Flickr

Purpose:

Flickr is an online community service that enables registered users to upload, tag, group, comment and rate photographs, artwork, illustrations, screenshots and videos. Images may be shared via Flickr galleries or embedded in external blogs and social media. Hosting approximately 4 billion images, Flickr is also available for unregistered users to search and browse galleries and navigate geospatial maps.

Features:

100MB monthly upload limit (Free accounts); unlimited uploads (Pro subscribers)
High Definition video uploads
Available in 8 languages
Metadata tagging to form tag-clouds and folksonomies
Application Programming Interface (API) enables independent programmers to expand Flickr applications
Ajax emulates the functionality of desktop photo applications
Uploadr drag-and-drop desktop client allows users to upload photos outside the web interface
Private and public image storage
Guest pass allows private photos to be shared with unregistered users
SafeSearch filtering controls
RSS and Atom feeds
Direct uploads from email and cameraphones
Merchandising of canvas prints, posters, cards, calendars and photo books
Copyright and creative commons license options

A&H use case 1 description:

Over 1,500 items from the City of Edinburgh's printing collections were catalogued to highlight Edinburgh’s rich printing and publishing heritage through the online provision of photographs, film and sound recordings. The Open Access virtual museum uses Flickr to import images that are displayed as dynamic photo galleries on the website.

Creator:

Ludicorp

Publisher:

Yahoo! Inc

Specifications:

Data publishing and dissemination:

User contributed content

Data capture:

2d scanning and photography

Software/programming languages used:

flickr

Discipline:

Visual Arts

Practice-led research:

2d graphic design

2d illustration

Photography

Alternate tool(s):

Photobucket

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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: Adobe Flash

Purpose:

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

Features:

• manipulate vector and raster graphics
• support for bidirectional streaming of audio and video
• 3D transformation
• Motion editor
• Metadata (XMP) support
• XFL support

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Imaging papyri at Oxford” project has used Adobe Flash to visualize content.

Creator:

Macromedia

Publisher:

Adobe Systems

Data publishing and dissemination:

General website development

Interface design

Specifications:

Adobe Illustrator (AI)

Software/programming languages used:

Suite:

Data structuring and enhancement:

Animation

Alternate tool(s):

Microsoft Silverlight

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By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:24

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tool: Pie-Slice

Purpose:

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.

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

A&H use case 1 description:

The MERV project used Pie-Slice to explore the changing types and styles of pottery found at the ancient cities of Merv in Central Asia.

Publisher:

University College London (UCL)

Creator:

Clive Orton, UCL

Data analysis:

Content analysis

Specifications:

ASCII

Discipline:

Archaeology

Software/programming languages used:

Pie-slice

Data structuring and enhancement:

Data modelling

Tags:

Estimated vessel equivalent

eve

pottery information equivalent

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By garethknight at Fri, 12/02/2010 - 11:14

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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:

Licence:

GNU General Public License

Software/programming languages used:

epcEdit XML editor

epcedit

By garethknight at Thu, 11/02/2010 - 12:36

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tool: Wavesurfer

Purpose:

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

A&H use case 1 description:

The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) project used Wavesurfer to edit and transcribe 200 speech events recorded at the University of Warwick or the University of Reading that were made between October 1998 and March 2005.

Creator:

Centre for Speech Technology (CTT), KTH

Publisher:

Centre for Speech Technology (CTT), KTH

Data analysis:

Content analysis

Data structuring and enhancement:

Sound editing

Data capture:

Sound recording

Specifications:

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)

Citation Style Format (CSL)

lifecycleStage:

Practice-led research:

Audio mixing

Alternate tool(s):

audacity

Tags:

audio

playback

manipulation

Software/programming languages used:

Platform:

Licence:

By garethknight at Thu, 11/02/2010 - 11:27

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tool: Google Earth

Purpose:

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004.
It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe.

Features:

• Editable and customisable maps
• Simplified touring with audio and voice recording
• Different layers
• 3D buildings
• Save and share maps

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania” project has used Google Earth to map data relating to Greek and Latin inscriptions from Roman Tripolitania onto Google Earth maps.

Creator:

Keyhole, Inc

Publisher:

Google

Specifications:

Bitmap (BMP)

Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

KML-Zipped (KMZ)

Web Mapping Service (WMS)

GPS data

Arcview Header (HDR)

Alias Pix

Portable Anymap (PNM)

Data capture:

Geophysical survey

GPS and total station surveys

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Software/programming languages used:

Google Earth

Suite:

Google

Data structuring and enhancement:

Geo-referencing and projection

Alternate tool(s):

Bing Maps Platform, Bhuvan

Tags:

GIS

geography

Geospatial technology

Platform:

Licence:

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By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:25

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tool: ImageMagik

Purpose:

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

A&H use case 1 description:

The Thomas Gray Archive has used Image Magik to edit pictures and maps.

Creator:

ImageMagick Studio LLC

Publisher:

ImageMagick Studio LLC

Practice-led research:

Image manipulation

Data structuring and enhancement:

Image enhancement

Image restoration

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