HEURIST (http://HeuristNetwork.org) is an extremely flexible, end-user oriented, web-based data management system designed specifically for Humanities data. Developed since 2005, it has been in active use across many projects since 2009. It is available both as a free web service for researchers (hosted at the University of Sydney Data Centre) or for installation on a physical or virtual server (Open Source on gitHub).
Researchers can design, create, manage, analyse, visualise and publish their own richly-structured database(s) through a simple web interface, without the need for programmer(s). Quite complex databases can be built in a few hours by borrowing structures and vocabularies published by other users. Databases can be designed and built incrementally, as existing data are not affected by changes in structure. Databases created by Heurist are stored in MySQL with a repeatable structure facilitating sustainability and independent access by other software.
Advanced features include record linking, graph structure, drill-down facet searches, rule-based queries, custom reports, linked map-timelines, network visualisation, normalised spreadsheet import, crosstabulation, XML feeds, XSLT transforms. The team provides initial email and skype assistance for project setup at no cost, and special customisations at modest cost.
Heurist is applicable in many domains including History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Cultural Research, Linguistics, Media Studies etc. It handles everything from text, tags and categories, through networks of rich relationships and offset annotations, to images, video, spatial data and dating (including non-western systems and dating uncertainty).
Sophisticated searches (including faceted and rule-based) can be saved, organised and rendered as layered interactive maps, timelines, network visualisations, crosstabulations, lists, custom reports, XML and XSLT transforms, all of which can easily be printed or embedded (live) in a website - Heurist provides the html code required to embed results in a web page or CMS.
Databases can easily be migrated later to a personal or institutional server. Since the data are stored in a standard MySQL database with a fixed and well-documented structure, the data can be accessed directly via SQL from most programming languages independently of Heurist.
Version 4.2 (Jan 2016 onwards) is available as a service via the Heurist website. Version 4 delivers a user-customisable interface of widgets, along with better mapping and visualisation. Existing version 3 databases are bidirectionally compatible with version 4.
Pinboard is a social bookmarking website that describes itself as "a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site for people who value privacy and speed." The service lets users bookmark content from any web browser, offers browser plugins, and a way to save open tabs in a minimal, fast, and secure environment.
You can connect up to three Twitter accounts (search the archives of your tweets), and configure Pinboard to automatically mirror public bookmarks from your accounts on Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. All of your bookmarks from Delicious, Google Bookmarks, Diigo, Firefox, Safari, and many other sources can be imported to your Pinboard account. Everything on the site is available as an RSS feed and you can import and export data in a wide variety of formats.
Unlike other popular bookmarking services, Pinboard caters to users who value privacy. You do not need to have any public bookmarks to use the site. Pinboard does not serve any third-party content to logged-in users—that means no scripts, images, analytics trackers, and no ads. You do not have to provide any personally identifying information to open a Pinboard account. The only requirement is a working email address.
There is a third-party clients.
There is a one time fee of $11.
In addition to the basic features, Pinboard offers a bookmark archiving service for an annual fee of $25. The site will crawl and store a copy of every bookmark in your account, and display a special icon you can click to see a cached copy. If the page you bookmarked goes offline, you'll still be able to see the archived copy indefinitely.
Pinboard is a small site that features easy access to customer support and communicating with the developer. He is easy to reach through Twitter, IRC or email,.
LibLime's Koha is a web-based, open source integrated library system (ILS) that has also been used for virtual library systems (e.g. recreating historic libraries). LibLime Koha offers libraries circulation policies, patron management modules, parent-child relationship for patron records, club and service management features, in-depth "holds" support, single click batch import "undo" option, EzProxy compatibility, self-checkout interface and more.
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A browser bookmarklet that-- when used-- allows a user to select any of the images on the page to edit (basic color enhancement, cropping, etc.). Allows users to save the resulting image in a variety of formats, or email the image.
