Tools

Visualization

Quirkos

Text analysis software aimed at beginners to qualitative research, and using live visualizations as the interface. Quirkos supports standard code-and-retrieve operations, searches and queries on the data, and can visualize connections between topics and themes. Find more information at http://www.quirkos.com/qualitative-data-analysis-software.html

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Gathering

Prismatic

Content curation and topic discovery website based primarily on publishers the user follows through social media. Upon signing up, users are asked to select a number of topics that fall within their fields of interest. Relevant content is shown in a vertical feed. Users have the option to recommend, comment, share, remove the content from their feed, or save it. Prismatic "learns" from your behaviour which topics and publishers are of most interest to you. They say the more people who use it the better it gets, as recommendations figure greatly into popularity rankings. There are no human editors, just algorithms. Promoted features include connecting with communities who share your interests, learning from users who work in your field, the ability to share your discoveries with friends, and taking a "deep dive on any topic." According to Aria Haghighi, one of the founders "...we have an architecture similar to a search engine: polling and crawling the open web and activity on social networks." A 2013 article on Slate.com refers to Prismatic as "the world's smartest news reader". It's a good addition to other search and curation tools such as Google Alerts and saved Twitter hashtag searches. It aims to be better than the rest through use of parameters that are not static; it adjusts to your preferences as well as trending content on other social media sites.

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Publishing

Tweetster

Plugin for Omeka and WordPress that allows you to automatically tweet new additions to your Omeka archive or WordPress blog.

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Annotating

WikiPack

WikiPack is a web based personal information organizer and Markdown editor that uses Dropbox for synced storage. Using plain text Markdown files and WikiWords, WikiPack gives information context and links entries together by turning your Markdown pages into a private, password protected wiki. The easy to use Markdown language lets you create and edit your wiki pages without having to learn complex wiki syntax. WikiPack features page history/versioning and visual change comparisons in the browser-based GUI and store all of your files in your Dropbox account. You can import existing markdown files to sync WikiPack with other apps and services using Dropbox, or use the quick-start template to set up new wikis. WikiPack includes a GUI markdown editor with syntax highlighting, built-in markdown reference, support for Multimarkdown table, and toolbar buttons with keyboard shortcuts and tools for common formatting. WikiPack works in the browser so you can use it on any desktop or mobile device that has an internet connection and Dropbox functionality.

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MIT App Inventor

The MIT App Inventory (formerly Google App Inventor) allows users to develop applications for Android phones using a web browser and either a connected phone or emulator. Includes forum and tutorials; requires a Google account.

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Collaboration

iAnnotate

Full-featured app for reading, annotating, organizing, and sending PDFs. Offers ability to annotate PDFs with pen, highlighter, audio recordings, and photos. For iPad or Android tablet.

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Capture

Compfight

Search Flickr for photos, sort according to license types. Contains commercial as well as Creative Commons licensed photos.

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Web development

Mozilla Thimble

A simple web-based HTML and CSS editor geared toward beginners. Thimble splits your window into two panes - one is the editor and the other displays a preview of your work. Includes tutorial projects for learning to code. Offers option for webpages to be published by thimble.webmaker.org.

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Modeling

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

ORBIS is an "interactive scholarly work" that allows a user to determine the cost, time, and distance of various land, sea, and river routes among hundreds of sites in the ancient world, at various times of day and in various seasons. The work can be (and has been) used as a tool to study questions in various fields of study about antiquity, including trade and social interaction.

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Visualization

timemap

Timemap.js is a Javascript library that helps you to produce online maps (such as Google, OpenLayers, and Bing) along with a SIMILE timeline. You can load one or more datasets (in JSON, KML, or GeoRSS) onto both a map and a timeline simultaneously. By default, only items in the visible range of the timeline are displayed on the map.

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