OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a free, open-source tool for working with messy data. It enables users to clean data, transform it between a variety of formats, extend it with web services, and link it to databases. This tool is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
OpenLayers is a Javascript library that can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source in web browser. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications. OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles, vector data and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. It is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2-clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD).
OpenETD is an open source, web-based software application for managing the submission, approval, and distribution of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free, open source tool designed to help researchers manage the entire research workflow: planning, execution, reporting, archiving and discovery. It is part collaboration software and part version control system. The OSF can be used to manage individual projects or large collaborative ones. Privacy and sharing settings allow for fine-grained control over access to files and materials stored on the platform - share privately with collaborators or publicly with the community at large. Each project, contributor, and file on the OSF is given a persistent unique identifier, making all research products citable. The platform also mints DOIs and ARKs through DataCite. A collaborative wiki allows contributors to work on writing materials simultaneously. API connections with other services (Github, Dropbox, Box, Dataverse, Google Drive, figshare, Zotero, Mendeley, Amazon S3) allow researchers to connect other services they already use in order to see all their materials in one place. The OSF also offers a registry for preregistering research projects and/or analysis plans.
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system. Public Knowledge Project (the sponsor of OJS) is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing
The Open Harvester Systems is a free metadata indexing system that allowers users to create a searchable index of the metadata from Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant archives, such as sites using Open Journal Systems (OJS) or Open Conference Systems (OCS). It can harvest OAI metadata in a variety of schemas (including unqualified DC, the PKP (Open Journal Systems/Open Conference Systems) Dublin Core extension, MODS, and MARCXML).
It is both a set of software and practices that can be used to help organizations and individuals display computer based exhibitions. It includes a variety of human and computer interactions and could be ideal from user(s) interaction with data walls. Its community is made up of a diverse group of individuals that contribute to the design of human computer interactions and experiences with digital exhibitions. They include artists, developers, designers, museum professionals, technologists, and educators. The software if free for use by museums.
Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Web publishing tool that can create a complete Web presence for scholarly conferences. It is a highly flexible management and publishing system that can be downloaded for free and installed on a local Web server. It has been designed to reduce the time and energy devoted to the clerical and managerial tasks associated with managing a conference, while improving the record-keeping and efficiency of editorial processes. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of conference publishing through a number of innovation, from making policies more transparent to improving indexing. Features: - create a conference Web site - Manage conferences that occur more than once (e.g., yearly) - compose and send a call for papers - electronically accept paper and abstract submissions - allow paper submitters to edit their work - Conduct peer reviews - post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format - Schedule a Conference - post the original data sets - register participants, including accepting payments - integrate post-conference online discussions - utilize an e-mail template system - support multiple languages with localization files - Take advantage of more customizable, scalable and secure code System Requirements: A server environment meeting the following requirements is recommended: - PHP >= 4.2.x (including PHP 5.x); Microsoft IIS requires PHP 5.x - MySQL >= 3.23.23 (including MySQL 4.x) or PostgreSQL >= 7.1 (including - PostgreSQL 8.x) - Apache >= 1.3.2x or >= 2.0.4x or Microsoft IIS 6 Operating system: Any OS that supports the above software, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows
Open Calais Issue Discovery is a free, open source tool for textual analysis. From a text file, URLs or an Issuecrawler XML file, it generates a ranked table of terms and an overall count corresponding to the most relevant words and phrases in the source text or issue network.
