JPEG

Suite:

Software/programming languages used:

GDAL

Data structuring and enhancement:

Tags:

GIS

All major operating systems

Licence:

lifecycleStage:

Platform:

By Valentina Asciutti at Thu, 17/06/2010 - 11:12

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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

Use of existing digital data

Photography

Alternate tool(s):

Photobucket

Tags:

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.

Publisher:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Creator:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Software/programming languages used:

ArcExplorer

Data capture:

Specifications:

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Bitmap (BMP)

Java

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ESRI Explorer

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

History

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Data publishing and dissemination:

Web browser scripting

Tags:

GIS

geography

Geospatial computing

Geospatial technology

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Practice-led research:

Alternate tool(s):

ArcGIS Explorer, worldKit, GeoCommons

Data structuring and enhancement:

2d modelling - raster

2d modelling - vector

All major operating systems

Licence:

Freeware

Platform:

lifecycleStage:

structuring

analysis

publishing

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:41

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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

GPS and total station surveys

Specifications:

Javascript

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

Erdas Macro Language (EML)

Java

Ajax frameworks

J2EE

Communication and collaboration:

Resource sharing

Video-based interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ERDAS Imagine

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

Data analysis:

Data publishing and dissemination:

Desktop publishing and pre-press

Tags:

GIS

Remote sensing

Geospatial technology

Raster image

multispectral images

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Human factors analysis

Practice-led research:

Alternate tool(s):

SPRING, Virtual Terrain Project (VTP),

Data structuring and enhancement:

2d modelling - raster

2d modelling - vector

Animation

All major operating systems

Licence:

commercial

Platform:

lifecycleStage:

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

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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:

2d scanning and photography

Specifications:

Software/programming languages used:

ABBYY FineReader

Suite:

ABBYY

Practice-led research:

Tags:

Alternate tool(s):

OmniPage Professional

Licence:

lifecycleStage:

Platform:

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

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tool: NVivo

Purpose:

A software application that may be used to perform qualitative analysis upon varying types of unstructured and semi-structured data. NVivo enables users to combine and analyse disparate information content, identifying relationships or trends that may not be immediately obvious when handling each item individually. It is used in a variety of academic fields to perform network and organizational analysis, action or evidence-based research, discourse analysis, grounded theory, conversation analysis, ethnography, literature reviews, phenomenology and mixed methods research.

Features:

Multi-language support, including English, French, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese
Support for multiple media types in a project, including audiovisual content
Perform item coding within the software
Perform audio transcription and other activities with the software

A&H use case 1 description:

The Beyond the Book project used NVivo to analyse the development of large-scale shared reading practices, as exemplified by the Richard & Judy Book Club and Oprah Winfrey Book Club.

Publisher:

QSR International

Creator:

QSR International

Data analysis:

Collating

Specifications:

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)

Discipline:

Software/programming languages used:

Nvivo

Data structuring and enhancement:

Coding and standardisation

Data modelling

Tags:

Qualitative analysis

evidence-based research

discourse analysis

grounded theory

conversation analysis

ethnography

literature review

phenomenology

mixed methods research

Licence:

commercial

lifecycleStage:

analysis

Platform:

Microsoft Windows

By garethknight at Wed, 10/02/2010 - 10:32

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tool: Adobe Photoshop

Purpose:

Adobe Photoshop is an editor for still images. It is equipped with a diverse range of processing tools, enabling users to create or modify content through the use of drawing tools, filters, or other plug-ins.

Features:

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins which act like mini-editors that modify the image.
• Can utilise the colour models RGB, lab, CMKY, Greyscale, binary bitmap and duotone.
• Reads and writes raster and vector image formats

A&H use case 1 description:

“The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland” project has used Adobe Photoshop to edit digital images in both TIFF and high JPG formats of Romanesque sculpture in Britain.

Publisher:

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Creator:

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Specifications:

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Bitmap (BMP)

Adobe Illustrator (AI)

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Fireworks

Data analysis:

Image feature measurement

Image segmentation

Visualisation

Data capture:

2d scanning and photography

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Software/programming languages used:

Adobe Photoshop LE

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe photoshop Elements

Suite:

Adobe

Data structuring and enhancement:

2d modelling - raster

2d modelling - vector

Alternate tool(s):

GraphicConverter, 36-image converter

Tags:

Practice-led research:

2d graphic design

3d graphic design

Platform:

Licence:

lifecycleStage:

By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:32

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tool: Adobe Illustrator

Purpose:

Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. The latest version, Illustrator CS4, is the fourteenth generation in the product line.

Features:

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Raster and type-in vector format support

A&H use case 1 description:

The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate resources associated with Greek inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria.

A&H use case 2 description:

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used Adobe Illustrator during the production of visual data for use by the geological and archaeological community.

A&H use case 3 description:

The British Town maps project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate graphical data produced between 1470 and 1895.

Publisher:

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Creator:

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Practice-led research:

2d graphic design

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Photomontage

Data structuring and enhancement:

Suite:

Specifications:

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Bitmap (BMP)

Rich Text Format (RTF)

Unicode

Adobe Freehand

CorelDraw image (CDR)

Windows MetaFile (WMF)

PhotoShop Document (PSD)

Autodesk Drawing eXchange Format (DXF)

TrueType

Plug-in support

Microsoft Word document

Data analysis:

Image feature measurement

Tags:

Alternate tool(s):

Corel Draw

Platform:

Licence:

lifecycleStage:

Software/programming languages used:

Adobe Illustrator

By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 20/01/2010 - 15:29

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tool: 3DVIA Virtools

Purpose:

A software tool for the creation of 3D interactive environments. It may be used to model and interact with physical objects that currently or have previously existed in the real world, or create virtual environments that have not previously encountered. VirTool player software is available for Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS X, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360.

A&H use case 1 description:

Virtual Reconstruction of Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico is using 3DVIA Virtools to create a digital construct of the Teatro Olimpico theatre in Vicenza, Italy. It is using 3DVIA Virtools to model the internal structure of the Villa Rotonda, located outside Vicenza. The objective of the project is to develop a recreation of the villa through which the user may interact.

Creator:

Dassault Systemes

Publisher:

Dassault Systemes

Specifications:

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)

MS WAV

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Autodesk SoftImage (XSI)

Lightwave

Collada

Truevision TarGA (TGA)

PC Paintbrush (PCX)

Windows Media Audio (WMA)

Data structuring and enhancement:

Virtual world modelling

Software/programming languages used:

lifecycleStage:

Practice-led research:

Alternate tool(s):

TurnTool

Tags:

Surfer (ASCII & binary) data format

Virtual world modelling

Platform:

Licence:

By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 20/01/2010 - 15:15

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tool: ArcView

Purpose:

A software application for creating, manipulating and analysing GIS (Geographic Information System) data. ArcView may be used to create geographic maps, manipulate spatial features, analyse attributes and characteristics, and visualise spatial information in an understandable form. Current versions of the software enable the user to import and manipulate several content types in a spatial environment, including demographic information, CAD designs, still images and other types of content.

Features:

• Integrated query-building functionality to interrogate a dataset in order to answer research questions. For example, distance measurement, feature location
• Availability of map templates to create a consistent layout and appearance.
• Plug-in support that allows use of first-party and third-party extensions to perform tasks unsupported in the base installation of the software. E.g. raster geo-processing and three-dimensional analysis.

A&H use case 1 description:

‘Predicting the location of hominid sites in Africa and Asia’ project has used the software to geo-reference a dataset of locations in Africa and Asia, in order to assess the relationship between bone collagen preservation and geographic location of archaeological sites.

Publisher:

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Specifications:

Windows Enhanced MetaFile (EMF)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

Portable Document Format (PDF)