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Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up. No previous programming experience is needed! With Hackety Hack, you'll learn the Ruby programming language. Ruby is used for all kinds of programs, including desktop applications and websites. Hackety Hack is an interactive downloadable tutorial system
BuzzData was a website that allowed users to create accounts to share and follow datasets. Data was shared in public rooms under open licenses. The service included tools to help visualize and present data. BuzzData was closed on August 1, 2013.
Collaboration
Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable 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. Users of the site maintain full control over the management of their research whilst benefiting from global access, version control and secure backups in the cloud. 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. Figshare uses creative commons licensing to allow frictionless sharing of research data whilst allowing users to maintain their ownership.
Visualization
Gliffy is a tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams. Gliffy works directly in your browser and can be used to build flow charts, organization charts, network diagrams, workflows, technical drawings, and wireframes.
Xena is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena is an acronym meaning Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives. Xena is a component of the Digital Preservation Software Platform (DPSP). Xena software aids digital preservation by performing two important tasks: detecting the file formats of digital objects and converting digital objects into open formats for preservation.
Put the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure: if this then that. Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).
VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution and beyond. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information. Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually, brought into VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies.
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. These tools will query the metadata around a CC-licensed object and produce a properly formatted attribution that users can copy and paste wherever they need to.
Visualization
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. The intended users of Viewshare are individuals managing and creating access to digital collections of cultural heritage materials. Viewshare is offered as a software as a service (SaaS), email ndiippaccess@loc.gov to request a free account. Import Collection Data: Ingest collections from spreadsheets, JSON, CONTENTdm, XML MODS or OAI records. Upload from your desktop or import them from a URL. Generate Views: Generate distinct interactive visual interfaces to your digital collections, including maps and timelines, and sophisticated faceted navigation Embed & Share:Copy/Paste to embed your visualization interface in any webpage. Provide your users with novel and intuitive ways to explore your content System Requirements: Viewshare makes every attempt to support the following Web browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer v.7 & 8, Firefox v.3.x and Safari v.3.x. Opera v.9.x, Camino v.1.6.x, Firefox v.4.x, and Chrome v.14.x mostly work but are not as thoroughly tested and not officially supported. Internet Explorer v.6 does not work with some of the software used by Viewshare. Viewshare currently supports the US English (en-US) locale.
Organizing
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,.