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| Mozilla Thimble |
A simple web-based HTML and CSS editor geared toward beginners. Thimble splits your window into two panes - one is the editor and the other displays a preview of your work. Includes tutorial projects for learning to code. Offers option for webpages to be published by thimble.webmaker.org. |
| MuseScore |
Free and open source music notation program. From website: MuseScore runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and is available in over 40 different languages. |
| Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) |
From the web site: |
| music21 |
From the web site: music21: A toolkit for computer-aided musicology |
| myHistro |
Using myHistro, you can combine maps and timelines seamlessly into one great presentation, convert any public timeline into a personal pdf file, or export it into Google Earth format for offline storage. All completed timelines can be embedded into your blog and websites for maximum exposure. |
| myPeers |
myPeers is a scholars social network that allows you follow your peers' research, get notified when their papers are published, and have access to their published work. |
| MySQL |
A software application that enables relational databases to be created, managed and queried. The database management system enables multiple users to access a database through an appropriate interface. |
| MyStickies |
MyStickies allows you to place small yellow squares of digital paper on web pages. MyStickies also provides an interface to browse, search, sort and edit with your sticky notes from any computer. |
| nanoc |
nanoc is a tool that runs on your local computer and compiles documents written in formats such as Markdown, Textile, Haml… into a static web site consisting of simple HTML files, ready for uploading to any web server. |
| Natural Language Toolkit |
The National Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a set of open source Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing and text analytics. |
| Nature mobile |
Nature.com reader apps allow you to read scientific content on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. You may browse news and free open access content, save material to read for later, save searches, and access the articles' references. |
| Navicat for MySQL |
Navicat for MySQL is an interface for working with MySQL databases, including importing data from CSV or Excel, exporting, reporting, querying, etc. |
| NB |
NB is designed for faculty and students to collaboratively annotate PDFs in an online environment. The faculty member can upload course material (e.g. readings), and make it available to their students. Students can then create public and private annotations on those PDFs. |
| Neatline |
Neatline is a tool for the creation of interlinked timelines and maps as interpretive expressions of the literary or historical content of archival collections. |
| Netvibes |
Netvibes offers a free personal web dashboard for following feeds, friends and using the provided apps. A premium account includes functionality for analytics, tagging, curation, alerts, sentiment analysis, and search. |
| Ning |
Ning is a social website that brings together people in various realms, including education, social service work, tools, and music. |
| Nominatim |
Nominatim is a tool to search osm data by name and address and to generate synthetic addresses of osm points (reverse geocoding). Nominatim is also used as one of the sources for the Search box on the OpenStreetMap home page and powers the search on the MapQuest Open Initiative websites. |
| NoodleTools |
MLA, APA, Chicago / Turabian and most-common Bluebook forms as an integrated citing and note-taking platform for individual or group projects. Prompts for analysis of source types and is unique in offering teaching support and personal help on any citation. |
| Notational Velocity |
Notational Velocity is open-source software that allows you to search across thousands of notes. You may create a new note or view or edit an existing note. |
| NoteBook |
NoteBook is an application that offers a notebook-like interface for organizing digital information. Technical features include the ability to take notes and edit, add sticky notes, copy/paste information, diagram and sketch, annotate, import/export files, and more. |
| Noter |
Noter is a to-do list application for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. You may open up Noter on your iPhone or sync with your computer. |
| NovaMind |
NovaMind is mind mapping software. |
| NVivo |
NVivo provides qualitative data analysis for documents, surveys, audio, and visuals. |
| Office 365 |
Microsoft Office 365 provides a cloud-hosted version of the Office suite. Different packages include different combinations of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Microsoft Lync. |
| Omeka |
Omeka is a content management system designed for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.
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| Omeka.net |
Omeka.net provides free and paid hosting for Omeka sites, with different degrees of flexibility depending on the hosting plan.
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| OmniFocus |
OmniFocus is task management software that can sync between Macs and iOS devices. |
| OmniGraffle |
OmniGraffle can help you make graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they're moved, providing powerful styling tools, importing and exporting Microsoft Visio files, and organizing diagrams with just one click. |
| OmniPage |
A software tool capable of performing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) upon a set of images. It achieves the task by analysing pixel sets and in an image and cross-matching them to a dictionary of words. |
| OneNote |
Microsoft OneNote is a digital notebook that allows you to gather notes and information in a central environment, and search across your shared notebooks to better manage information and work with others. |
| Open Attribute |
Open Attribute is a suite of tools that makes it simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work. |
| Open Conference Systems |
Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a tool that allows users to create a conference website, send a call for papers, accept paper and abstract submissions, post conference proceedings and data sets, register participants, and enable post-conference online discussion. |
| Open GRASS |
Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is free Geographic Information System (GIS) software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. |
| Open Harvester Systems |
The Open Harvester Systems is a free metadata indexing system that allowers users to create a searchable index of the metadata from Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant archives, such as sites using Open Journal Systems (OJS) or Open Conference Systems (OCS). |
| Open Journal Systems |
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system. |
| OpendTect |
A software application that is used for analysing and visualising multi-volume seismic data.
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| OpenETD |
OpenETD is an open source, web-based software application for managing the submission, approval, and distribution of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). |
| OpenLayers |
OpenLayers is a Javascript library that can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. |
| OpenOffice |
OpenOffice is an open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases. |
| OpenRefine |
OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a tool for cleaning messy data (e.g. fixing inconsistencies), transforming it between different formats, and exploring data. |
| OpenSocial |
OpenSocial provides a set of shared APIs that allow applications to work across multiple social networks, including LinkedIn, Ning, and MySpace. |
| OpenZoom |
The OpenZoom SDK is a free and open source toolkit for Flash for developing Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) for high-resolution images. |
| Oracle Database |
Oracle Database is a powerful and extensive relational database management system (RDBMS). There are restrictions on the free version of the software. Features: |
| Orange |
Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting. Components for machine learning. Add-ons for bioinformatics and text mining. Packed with features for data analytics. |
| ORBIS |
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. |
| Org Mode |
Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. |
| oSkope |
oSkope is a visual search assistant that allows you to browse and organize items from Amazon, eBay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo!Image Search and YouTube. Results are displayed on an interactive Flash grid of thumbnails. |
| Otixo |
View and edit files from different cloud services (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) in one place. |
| OttoBib |
OttoBib allows you to create a bibliography based on looking up the data online. Additionally, the reader or teacher can see the books, their covers, links to Amazon or other online references. |
| OxGarage |
OxGarage is an experimental web, and RESTful, service to manage the transformation of documents (XML, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations) between a variety of formats. The majority of transformations use TEI as a pivot format. |
| oXygen XML editor |
A cross-platform XML editor that may be used to create and validate XML documents and associated schema. It fully supports XSL (both XSLT and FO), DTD, Schema (Relax RNG and W3C), Database, XQuery and CSS. |
| pachyderm |
Pachyderm allows users to upload multimedia (images, audio, video) and publish them online using pre-defined templates or download them for use on their own website, or on a CD or DVD. |
| Padlet |
What is Padlet? It is an online environmentally friendly online sticky note spot! This tool allows you to create a wall to collaborate with students, teachers, parents and others in the community. Go to http://padlet.com/ to build your own wall. |
| Painter |
Corel Paint is design software with a focus on drawing, including a variety of tools and brushes. |
| PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations) |
PAIR is a sequence alignment algorithm for humanities text analysis designed to identify "similar passages" in large collections of texts. |
| Pandoc |
Pandoc can convert documents in reStructuredText, textile, HTML, or LaTeX formats to a variety of other formats including XHTML, PDF, EPUB, docx, odt, and more. |
| PaperCritic |
Open peer review tool for items in Mendeley. |
| Papers |
Software for searching for research materials and organizing them. Also supports scanning documents within Papers, sharing research, automatically grabbing metadata, sharing articles, etc. |
| Participad |
Participad is a WordPress plugin that allows multiple people to edit the same WP content at the same time. Powered by Etherpad Lite, Participad gives you: notepads, for collaborative notetaking; ynchronous authoring of any content in the WordPress Dashboard; front-end editing. |
| Pattern |
Pattern is a Python web mining module with tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data... |
| PDF Extract |
Pdf-extract is an open source set of tools and libraries for identifying and extracting semantically significant regions of a scholarly journal article (or conference proceeding) PDF. |
| PDF to Word Converter |
The PDF to Word Converter is Windows software that can convert a PDF (with no password protection) to a Word .doc file. |
| PDFCreator |
PDFCreator is a free PDF creation utility for Windows that includes features for password protection and disabling printing. |
| PDFMiner |
PDFMiner is a Python tool for extracting information from PDFs (not only text, but also information about fonts, encoding, and layout.) |
| PDFmyURL |
PDFmyURL converts websites to PDFs. Premium, paid features include watermarks and preference configuration (e.g. paper size, table of contents, disabling/enabling links, etc.) |
| PDFsam (PDF Split and Merge) |
PDFsam can split and merge batches of PDFs. |
| Pdftk (PDF Toolkit) |
The PDF Toolkit allows users to merge, split, rotate, decrypt/encrypt, compress/uncompress, and repair PDFs. |
| PDFtoMusic Pro |
PDFtoMusic Pro converts PDFs created by other music notation programs to MusicXML scores. |
| Pear Note |
Software (Mac only, $40) for taking notes during presentations - allows you to sync text, audio, video, and slides. |
| Perl |
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. |
| Personal Brain |
PersonalBrain is a mind mapping and brainstorming application that helps users visualize their ideas. PersonalBrain applies visualization to your content, in order to great a digital map visualization of networked information. |
| PhiloGL |
PhiloGL is a framework for data visualization using WebGL, a library that extends Javascript to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics. |
| PhiloLine |
PhiloLine is an add-on for the Philologic text retrieval engine that provides a sequence alignment algorithm for humanities text analysis designed to identify "similar passages" in large collections of texts. |
| Philologic |
Philologic is a full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool with support for TEI-Lite XML/SGML, Unicode encoding, plaintext, Dublin Core/HTML, and DocBook. |
| Philomine |
Philomine is an extension to the Philologic text retrieval engine that supports a variety of machine learning, text mining, and document clustering tasks. |
| PhotoScore |
PhotoScore takes an image of a music score-- including handwritten scores-- and outputs it in an editable format, including MusicXML. |
| Photoshop Express |
Photoshop Express allows simple web-based image editing and cloud storage (2 GB free), as well as video storage and streaming, slideshow templates, and a photo gallery. Features include online galleries and slideshows, exporting and searching images, and privacy settings. |
| PHP 5.2.3+ | |
| Piazza |
Web-based web discussion tool (it's not a full fledged learning management system) that allows student to ask questions and interact with teachers in a public space, which, ideally, saves time for teachers and fosters greater engagement. |
| Picasa |
Picasa is simple photo editing software that integrates with on-line Picasa Web Albums for photo sharing. |
| Picasa Web Albums |
Users can search photos that have been posted in public albums and filter the results by license (any Creative Commons license, licenses that allow commercial use, licenses that allow remixing). |
| Picnik |
Picnik is a simple web-based image editor that can import photos from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search, Google Plus, and also has upload capabilities. |
| Pie-Slice |
A statistical package that may be used to compare quantified assemblages of broken and incomplete objects, such as ceramics, glass and bones. |
| Pinboard |
Pinboard is a basic social bookmarking website that describes itself as being "for introverted people in a hurry." The focus of the site is less on social side and more on the side of providing a quick easy to use and functional bookmarking site. There is a one time fee of under $10.00. |
| Pipes |
Yahoo Pipes allows users to combine, filter, translate, and geocode data from RSS feeds, JSON, KML, or other similar formats, and power widgets/badges using that data. |
| Pliny |
Pliny is a note-taking and annotation tool. It may be used with both digital (web pages, images, PDF files) and non-digital (books, printed articles) materials. Pliny is a desktop application that runs on your computer, and manages annotations and notes that you gather as you are reading. |
| Plone |
Plone is a powerful, flexible, open source Content Management System (CMS) built on top of Zope application server and CMF. Features: |
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Pocket (formerly Read It Later) is a tool to save web pages for reading later. This tool allows you to read on the computer, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Kindle, or on paper. |
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| Polymaps |
Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. |
| PolyMeta |
PolyMeta is a metasearch engine that displays the search results in the form of clusters and images. The results are sorted according to source and category. |
| popplet |
Popplet is an online mind mapping and collaborative brainstorming tool. |
| Posterous Spaces |
NOTE: this platform is closing down on April 30, 2013 and will no longer be available. Posterous Spaces is an online sharing platform where users can publish content via a web interface, by email, or by using a mobile app. |
| PostgreSQL |
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system running on all major platforms. Support for native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and ODBC among others. |
| PostgreSQL |
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. |
| Praat |
Praat is software for the phonetic analysis of speech, including support for articulatory and speech synthesis. |
| PressBooks |
PressBooks lets you and your team easily author and output books in multiple formats including: epub, Kindle, print-on-demand-ready PDF, HTML, and inDesign-ready XML. |
| Prezi |
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. |
| Prism |
Prism is a tool for crowdsourcing interpretation. Welcome to our experiment in crowd-sourcing and visualizing many readings of a common set of texts. |
| Pro Tools |
Pro Tools is audio creation and production software. With Pro Tools it is possible to compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for pictures and video with out havingto use a variety of software. |
| Processing |
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. |

