HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

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
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Center for History and New Media,George Mason University
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DSpace

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tool: ArcExplorer

Purpose: 

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

A&H use case 1 description: 
ArcExplorer was used in the Montréal l'avenir du passé (MAP) project to create a historical GIS research infrastructure for mapping the city of Montréal.
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Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Creator: 
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
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ArcGIS Explorer, worldKit, GeoCommons

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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)
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SPRING, Virtual Terrain Project (VTP),

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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.
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Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Creator: 
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
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GRASS (Geographic Analysis Support System) GIS, ThinkGeo

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tool: GeoParser

Purpose: 

GeoParser is a text analysis tool that may be used to identify, tag and (where appropriate) disambiguate references to geographic location in a text resource. The tool uses Natural Language Processing to analyse the composition of a resource and identifying words that match its geographic database. The approach is useful for processing ambiguous references, such as 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 action (e.g. Reading in Berkshire and reading as an activity).

Features: 

• Analyse text stored in structured, semi-structured and unstructured text formats
• Creates information that may be processed and used by a global gazetteer

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Embedded GeoCrossWalk project use the GeoParser to extracts the place names found in proceedings of the Stormont Assembly.
Publisher: 
University of Edinburgh School of Informatics - Language Technology Group
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University of Edinburgh School of Informatics - Language Technology Group
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Metacarta’s GeoTagger, Digital Reasoning’s GeoLocator, Lockheed Martin’s AeroText, and SRA’s NetOwl

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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
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Helios Software Solutions
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EditPlus, UltraEdit

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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.

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  • 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
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oXygen XML editor

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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.

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  • 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
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Apache Software Foundation
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Software tool designed to convert digital texts that employ standard typographic editorial conventions into EpiDoc-compliant XML files. A series of regular expressions are applied to the source document and the results are placed into a “shell file” (i.e., a template), which can be customised in advance. The regular expressions are stored in a separate configuration file to permit customisation, but this file is generated from regular expressions embedded in the EpiDoc Guidelines source files.

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• Regular expression engine that has custom mapping files for Leiden to XML.
• Customisable for different formats, such as RTF, HTML and TXT

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania project has used CHET-C to convert digital texts of Latin and Greek inscriptions into EpiDoc-compliant XML files.
Creator: 
Hugh Cayless (with Zaneta Au, Gabriel Bodard, Tom Elliott, Raffaele Viglianti)
Publisher: 
EpiDoc Collaborative
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Adobe Bridge is a media management application that may be used to organise, browse, locate, and view creative assets. It was provided as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2.

Features: 

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software (except for the standalone version of Adobe Acrobat 8)
• Extensible through use of Javascript

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Winsor & Newton Colourman's Manuscript Archive used Adobe Bridge to organise scanned images associated with paint making.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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