Tools

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.

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Cisdem PDFConverterOCR for Mac

A tool to convert Normal/Scanned PDF and Image to Word, Excel, PPT, Keynote, Pages, Text, etc. on Mac. Features: Convert PDF to Word (.doc), Excel (.xlsx), and More Common Office Format Files Convert PDF to Pages and Keynote Convert PDF to Graphics Files Convert Scanned PDF with Accurate OCR Convert Multilingual PDF Files Support Password-Restricted PDF Files Extract Portions of Text, Image or Table for Reconstruction of Document

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Organizing

Papers

Papers helps users collect and curate the research material that they're passionate about. From citations to search, Papers will improve the way users find, organize, read, and cite. Find Federated search across 25+ search engines. From PubMed and Scopus to arXiv and Google Patents. Read Focus on reading with the full-screen reader, which supports highlights, annotations, and tabs. Organize Throw out those folders of uncategorized PDFs and let Papers organize your documents. Cite Citing has never been easier. Format citations in one of 7000+ citation styles. Share Collaborate, share and discover with Papers Online. Providing shared collections and a personal reading list.

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Collaboration

Skype

Skype allows free voice and video computer-to-computer calls, and calls to phone numbers for a fee. Video is only available for person-to-person calls, but multiple users can join a voice call. Skype can be used for free by educators in the classroom: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/complete-guide-to-use-of-skyp...

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Annotating

Freebase

Freebase was "an open, Creative Commons Attribution (aka CC-BY) licensed collection of structured data," and a "platform for accessing and manipulating that data" via API. Almost 40 million entities and assertions about those entities are stored within a graph database. The database was built by pulling in open data and relies on community contribution to stay updated. Freebase was part of the semantic web and emits Linked Open Data (via RDF) for all its entities.

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Visualization

D3.js

D3.js is a data visualization library by Mike Bostock, who is also the primary creator of Protovis, which D3 is designed to replace. There is a great introductory tutorial available from Luke Franci. It is one of many other tutorials linked to from Bostock's D3 wiki.

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Publishing

Roambi Flow

Roambi Flow is an iOS online publishing service. Roambi allows you to transform Excel data and other publications to visualizations compatible with mobile, and also send them to the iPhone or iPad.

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Capture

ABBYY FineReader

An (optical character recognition) engine for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs. Features: Recognition of Digital Camera and Mobile Phone Camera Images Comprehensive Language Support Complete Integration with Popular Office Applications PDF conversion, archiving and security

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Visualization

Aeon Timeline

Aeon Timeline is more like an abstract temporal entity management program. I t happens to use a visual timeline, but it allows for conceptual linking of people, places, events in a rather clever fashion. It is intended for brainstorming and collecting via flexible input and export. With Aeon, you can divide your timeline into logical groups, projects, or concurrent arcs. You can model the relationships between events and people, places and ideas. Aeon calculates people's ages for you. And you can link your events with research material such as external files or images that can be displayed inside the application.

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Annotating

CLAWS Tagger

Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging software for English - the classification of words into one or more categories based upon its definition, relationship with other words, or other context, also known as wordclass tagging. CLAWS (Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System) uses several methods to identify parts of speech., most notably a system called Hidden Markov models (HMMs) which involve counting examples of co-occurrence of words and wordclasses in training data and making a table of the probabilities of certain sequences of words. Features: Parts-of-Speech tagging with an accuracy rate of approximately 96-97 percent for text analyzed for common text types in British English. Template tagging A free version is CLAWS is scheduled for release in 2015.

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