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job: Digital Humanities Specialist - University Library

By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 15/12/2010 - 11:58

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job: RA position: geographical information management and web development

By Valentina Asciutti at Fri, 30/07/2010 - 14:59

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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:

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Alternate tool(s):

OmniPage Professional

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

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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

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Specifications:

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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:

Specifications:

Microsoft's .NET Framework

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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

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tool: Adobe Dreamweaver

Purpose:

An editing tool for web content. Dreamweaver offers a graphics-based (What You See Is What You GET) and code-based user interface for the development of web pages and sites. The tool may be used to simplify the process of web site development (in comparison to creation of individual web pages), through the provision of a templating system that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.

Features:

• WYSIWYG
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
• Subversion integration
• FTP/SFTP support
• WebDav support
• Web site template system
• Adobe Spry AJAX framework support

A&H use case 1 description:

The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (1700-1945) project has used Dreamweaver to design and develop their project web site.

Creator:

Macromedia

Publisher:

Adobe Systems

Data publishing and dissemination:

Disk publishing

General website development

Interface design

Specifications:

PHP

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

Suite:

Software/programming languages used:

Tags:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

Alternate tool(s):

Quanta Plus, Aptana, Kompozer

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lifecycleStage:

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

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tool: Subversion Version System (SVN)

Purpose:

An open source version control system that is used to manage multiple versions of data objects in a controlled environment. Access and revision to objects are carefully controlled, to prevent unauthorised access and alteration.

Features:

• Version support for all files and directories in repository, enabling administrator to track changes that have occurred and obtain earlier versions of files
• Free-form versioned metadata
• Atomic commits
• Merge tracking
• File locking
• Preservation of file attributes, such as executable and read/write status
• Apache network server support with WebDAV/DeltaV protocol
• Write-through proxy using WebDAV
• Interactive conflict resolution
• Repository read-only mirroring

A&H use case 1 description:

The Citation and Allusion project has used Subversion to document different versions of files as the work on the project proceeded.

Creator:

CollabNet

Publisher:

Apache Software Foundation

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Security planning

Specifications:

PHP

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)