Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is a text analysis software program designed by James W. Pennebaker, Roger J. Booth, and Martha E. Francis. LIWC calculates the degree to which people use different categories of words across a wide array of texts, including emails, speeches, poems, or transcribed daily speech. With a click of a button, you can determine the degree any text uses positive or negative emotions, self-references, causal words, and 70 other language dimensions.
Readium.org: Open Source Technology for EPUB 3 and the Open Web Platform The Readium Foundation (Readium.org) develops technology to accelerate adoption of EPUB 3 and the Open Web Platform by the global digital publishing industry. Readium.org was formed in February, 2013 as a non-profit memebership organization. Current Readium.org projects include Readium Web (an EPUB 3 rendering engine for browser-based cloud readers) and Readium SDK (an EPUB 3 rendering engine for native apps).
CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organizations) wanting to make their data open and available.
The D-Net Software Kit is an Open Source service-oriented solution for the construction of customized Data Infrastructures. Data Infrastructures address the need increasingly manifested by research communities to operate over the integration of content collected from several information sources (such as institutional repositories endowed with OAI-PMH interfaces, or archives of research data).
calibre is a one stop solution to all your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.
With SIARD (Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases), the Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) provides a sustainable solution for the long-term preservation of relational databases. This includes an open format for archiving of relational databases as well as a software package - "SIARD Suite" - for converting relational databases into the SIARD format. SIARD Suite is based on international standards such as XML, SQL:1999 and UNICODE. At present the application supports the following databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server und Microsoft Access. The Swiss Federal Archives distributes the SIARD Suite free of charge, according to the license agreement. database preservation. preservation of databases.
The Archivematica project is integrating a number of open source tools and applications to create a comprehensive digital archives system that is compliant with the ISO-OAIS standard and is able to implement media type preservation plans based on an analysis of significant properties. Archivematica is a comprehensive digital preservation system. Archivematica uses a micro-services design pattern to provide an integrated suite of free and open-source tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access in compliance with the ISO-OAIS functional model. Users monitor and control the micro-services via a web-based dashboard. Archivematica uses METS, PREMIS, Dublin Core and other best practice metadata standards. Archivematica implements media type preservation plans based on an analysis of the significant characteristics of file formats.
The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.
FITS is currently configured to use a set of 8 tools for identifying, validating, and extracting technical metadata. jhove, exiftool, National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor, file utility, droid, ffident, fileinfo, xmlMetadata.
Setting up ThinkUp takes a couple of minutes if you know how to install a web app. Once you're running, there's lots you can do!. e.g., Archive all of your social data for your Twitter and Facebook accounts in your own database and make it easy to search, sort and filter.
free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia. The DPSP is a collection of software applications which support the goal of digital preservation. Xena stands for XML Electronic Normalising for Archives. Xena converts digital files to standards based, open formats. Digital Preservation Recorder (DPR) - DPR handles bulk preservation of digital files via an automated workflow. Checksum Checker is a piece of software that is used to monitor the contents of a digital archive for data loss or corruption. Manifest Maker produces a tab-separated list of digital files in a specified location. The manifest includes the checksum, path and filename of each digital file.
JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment 2 (JHOVE2). With funding from the Library of Congress under its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the California Digital Library, Portico, and Stanford University are collaborating on a two year project to develop and deploy a next-generation architecture providing enhanced performance, streamlined APIs, and significant new features. The JHOVE2 project generalizes the concept of format characterization to include identification, validation, feature extraction, and policy-based assessment. The target of this characterization is not a simple digital file, but a (potentially) complex digital object that may be instantiated in multiple files.
New free software, launched by Oxford University scientists, gives researchers the tools they need to collaborate more efficiently and quickly with colleagues scattered around the world and working in a variety of different research areas. The colwiz (‘collective wizdom’) R&D platform manages the entire research lifecycle from an initial idea
Recollection seeks to provide the platform, tools and environment that enables the community of NDIIPP Partners to share their collections and data on an ongoing basis. In addition, NDIIPP collections can be showcased from a central point through the activities of the Partners, and not the manual labor of the Library. This allows NDIIPP to maintain the benefits of a distributed network of partners and also take advantage of the collections speaking to one another (Campbell, 2009). Linked data technology is used in Recollection as a basic platform for librarians and curators exposing collections to the Web, and as a source of data to augment these collections. Potential users of the information can more easily discover and analyze this data in a variety of new ways as a result. Not only do consumers of the information have increased access, but collection curators can begin to connect information across collections and from the WWW to enhance collection value with new resources.