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Adobe Bridge

Submitted by Jake Peterson on

Adobe Bridge is a media management application used for organizing, browsing, locating, and viewing creative assets. It was provided as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2, and is now in version CS5

Features:

  • Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software (except for the standalone version of Adobe Acrobat 8)

  • Extensible through use of Javascript

Webpage: 

http://www.adobe.com/au/products/bridge.html

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Archivematica

Submitted by Kristin Williams on

Archivematica is a digital preservation system that is designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects. It uses a micro-services design pattern to provide an integrated suite of software 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.

Webpage: 

http://www.archivematica.org

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Asset Bank

Submitted by Jake Peterson on

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/

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digilib

Submitted by Joel Kalvesmaki on

Digilib is a web based client/server technology for images. The image content is processed on-the-fly by a Java Servlet on the server side so that only the visible portion of the image is sent to the web browser on the client side. It supports a wide range of image formats and viewing options on the server side while only requiring an internet browser with javascript and a low bandwidth internet connection on the client side.

Webpage: 

http://digilib.berlios.de/

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DocScanner

Submitted by Zach Coble on

Android and iOS app that uses your phone or iPad's built-in camera to scan documents. Includes image optimization, OCR, option to save as PDF, JPEG, or text file, and ability to send documents to other accounts (e.g. Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, etc.)

Webpage: 

http://www.docscannerapp.com/

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Flickr

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on

Flickr is an online community service that enables registered users to upload, tag, group, comment, share 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 include:

Webpage: 

http://www.flickr.com

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LitBlitz Literature Notes Manager

Submitted by Kas on

Overview
LitBlitz is free web-based beta software that aims to improve how students and researchers manage their notes for literature reviews, assignment research and more. With LitBlitz, you can:
- Avoid hours of printing, highlighting, organizing and typing
- Save money involved in printing 100s to 1000s of pages
- Highlight and write notes without shuffling a stack of papers
- Organise your notes into digital notebooks in real-time
- Easily transfer notes to your draft review/assignment

Webpage: 

http://www.litblitz.net

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Madison Digital Image Database (MDID)

Submitted by Paige Paulsen on

MDID is software for teaching and learning with digital images with tools for discovering, aggregating, and presenting digital media in a variety of learning spaces.

Webpage: 

http://sites.jmu.edu/mdidhelp/

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Mediathread

Submitted by Mark Phillipson on

Mediathread is an open-source platform for exploration, analysis, and organization of web-based multimedia content. It interoperates with a variety of image and video collections (such as YouTube, Flickr, library databases, and course libraries), enabling users to lift items out of these collections and into a scholarly analysis environment. In Mediathread, items can then be clipped, annotated, organized, and embedded into compositions and other written analysis.

Webpage: 

http://mediathread.ccnmtl.columbia.edu

Mercury Amira

Submitted by Jake Peterson on

Mercury Amira is a multifaceted tool that allows for integration, manipulation, and visualisation of large sets of data. Automatic and interactive segmentation tools support processing of 3D image data.
Features:

  • One platform for visualizing, analyzing and presenting

  • Very large data sets are easily accessible with specific readers

  • C++ coding wizard for technical extension and customization

Webpage: 

http://www.vsg3d.com/amira/overview

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Picasa Web Albums

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on

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).

Webpage: 

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/explore

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SepiaTown

Submitted by Josh Honn on

SepiaTown is a cultural history project whose goal is to provide both a window to the past by merging photography, geography, and technology, as well as a forum for institutions and individuals to share and map historical images.

Webpage: 

http://sepiatown.com/

Viewshare

Submitted by Trevor Owens on

Viewshare is a free web application for creating interfaces and visualizations of cultural heritage collections. It can create, interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds, histograms, and image galleries.

Webpage: 

http://viewshare.org

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