Data storage

Asset Bank

Submitted by Jake Peterson on Mon, 2011-12-05 12:34

A digital asset management system for the storage, management and delivery of raster images, audiovisual content, documents and other resources. The software provides limited eCommerce functionality for use by institutions that wish to use the system to sell digital products. It may be installed in-house on a Windows/Linux/Unix system or hosted on a system operated by the developers.

Features:

Image versioning

User-driven rating system

Automatic generation of thumbnails and preview images

Webpage:

http://www.assetbank.co.uk/

Bamboo HUBzero Work Space

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on Wed, 2011-10-05 13:59

The HubZero Bamboo Work Space is an instance of HubZero enhanced with the combined functionality of the Bamboo Services Platform, Content Interoperability Hub, and Person Service built-in.

Webpage:

http://www.projectbamboo.org

Bibliopedia

Submitted by Michael Widner on Tue, 2013-02-12 14:58

Bibliopedia is an open source, semantic wiki research platform designed to crawl scholarly resources including JSTOR, the Library of Congress, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and similar data sources, extract metadata about works cited, convert that data into a semantic web format, aggregate the different repositories, then display the results on a wiki-style website for the scholarly community to verify, add to, annotate, elaborate, and discuss.

Webpage:

http://www.bibliopedia.org

BuzzData

Submitted by Josh Honn on Fri, 2012-05-04 15:38

BuzzData is a user-friendly, versatile data-sharing software.

Webpage:

http://buzzdata.com/

Dataverse

Submitted by Josh Honn on Tue, 2012-05-08 13:19

The Dataverse Network is an application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows to replicate others work. Researchers and data authors get credit, publishers and distributors get credit, affiliated institutions get credit.

Webpage:

http://thedata.org/

DEVONthink

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on Sun, 2011-11-13 05:58

DEVONthink is a database that helps users organize digital files, including emails and PDFs.

Webpage:

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/

DocumentCloud

Submitted by Zach Coble on Sat, 2012-12-22 11:05

Designed for journalists, a web-based service for working with primary sources that features search and analysis, highlighting and annotation, and document sharing. Uses Tesseract for OCR and allows users to upload documents and search other its document collection.

Webpage:

http://www.documentcloud.org/home

DSpace

Submitted by Josh Honn on Tue, 2012-05-08 10:10

DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories.

Webpage:

http://www.dspace.org/

eXist-db

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on Wed, 2011-11-16 19:32

eXist-db is an open source database management system that stores XML data according to the XML data model and features efficient, index-based XQuery processing.

Webpage:

http://exist.sourceforge.net/

FigShare

Submitted by Josh Honn on Fri, 2012-05-04 15:29

Figshare allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models. By opening up the peer review process, researchers can easily publish null results, avoiding the file drawer effect and helping to make scientific research more efficient.

Webpage:

http://figshare.com/

HUBzero

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on Wed, 2011-10-05 15:02

HUBzero is a web publication platform intended for research software and educational materials. HUBzero's most distinctive traits are a built-in environment that can run software that scholars have developed within the browser, a tool development area, the ability to post web-based presentations associated with tools.

Webpage:

http://hubzero.org/

Insync

Submitted by Zach Coble on Sun, 2012-09-16 12:07

Syncs your Google Drive (aka Google Docs) documents on your hard drive.

Webpage:

https://www.insynchq.com/

Koha

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on Sun, 2011-11-20 15:27

Koha is an open source integrated library system (ILS) that has also been used for virtual library systems (e.g. recreating historic libraries).

Webpage:

http://www.koha.org/

LimeService

Submitted by Kate on Tue, 2013-03-19 11:42

LimeService is basically the hosted version of the GNU licensed LimeSurvey. It is a survey service-platform to prepare, run and evaluate on-line surveys. Besides basic free usage you are always getting the full feature set with no monthly fees or subscription plans.

I've used it before and found it to pretty robust.

Webpage:

https://www.limeservice.com/en/

MySQL

Submitted by Jake Peterson on Tue, 2011-12-06 12:22

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. As an open source tool, MySQL underpins a number of free software projects, such as WordPress, phpBB and other software built on a LAMP infrastructure. Although widely used, there are a number of performance issues that limit its use in some environments. For example, it is unable to use multiple CPU cores to process a single query, potentially limiting its use as a data warehouse.

Webpage:

http://www.mysql.com/

NoodleTools

Submitted by Emma Millon on Mon, 2012-03-05 16:12

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. Instructor / librarian view allows teacher to comment on work-in-progress providing just-in-time feedback in-context. Archives copies of web pages and pdfs which can be annotated. Dashboard provides long-term access to a portfolio of work.

Webpage:

http://www.noodletools.com/

Pandoc

Submitted by Josh Honn on Mon, 2012-05-07 15:12

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.

Webpage:

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html

Photoshop Express

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on Sun, 2011-08-07 15:02

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. Android and iOS (including iPad) apps are available.

Webpage:

http://www.photoshop.com/tools/overview

TextGrid

Submitted by Paige Paulsen on Tue, 2011-11-15 16:51

TextGrid is a virtual research environment (VRE) for the humanities, providing integrated access to specialized tools, services and content, and serving as a long-term archive for research data in the humanities.

Webpage:

http://www.textgrid.de/en/startseite.html

The Observer XT

Submitted by Noldus on Mon, 2012-11-19 08:32

The Observer XT is the professional and user-friendly event logging software for the collection, analysis, and presentation of observational data.

Webpage:

http://www.noldus.com/human-behavior-research/products/the-observer-xt

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