• http://www.bubbl.us/ Just an easy way to collaborate. Bubbl.us is a brainstorming web based tools, easy to use to help students to share information, work in groups and visualize their ideas.
• Web Scrapbook *
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/scrapbook/ Think of it as a clipping file for the Internet. Into that file you can place images, excerpts, and whole web pages that you find while you surf the web or that reside on your computer. In addition, you can annotate these items, sort them into folders, and add memos to those folders. Unlike a bookmarks file or favorites list that is stored by your web browser on your computer's hard drive, you can access items you save to the Web Scrapbook from any computer connected to the Internet. In addition, the Web Scrapbook is a collaborative environment. You can grant other Web Scrapbook users access to any folder you choose, and allow them to annotate, comment upon, copy, move, and delete items within those folders. They can also add items to those folders if you give them permission. Using the Web Scrapbook, a class working on a project together could place all of the items they wish to discuss or annotate into one shared folder. Groups with a common interest could collaboratively build, sort, and annotate a list of relevant web pages, images, and passages.
• Collecting, gathering, following your data
• Navicrawler *****
• http://www.webatlas.fr/index.php?page=Navicrawler Navicrawler is a Firefox applet. By using it, you can create graphs representing all the websites you have visited as well as classify and list those websites. Navicrawler collects those data while you navigate, helping you to understand your own exploration. Its create graphs (but you will have to use other softwares - such as Pajek or Guess- to visualize them.) Navicrawler has been developed mainly for the needs of social sciences research. Its aims is to ease gathering helpful data for the study of the web. It was build to allow experts to explore the web, to visualize it as a territory, and to constitute corpuses useful for them. Navicrawler is a free software, open source under GPL licence.
• Website Watcher
• http//:aignes.com/ This tool is useful to track the change in the content of a website. This could be helpful in the study of a controversy, to have a record of the evolution of a hot topic. (Note that it is not a free resource : US-$ 29.95.)
• Managing and Understanding your references
• Navicrawler *****
• http://www.webatlas.fr/index.php?page=Navicrawler Navicrawler is a Firefox applet. By using it, you can create graphs representing all the websites you have visited as well as classify and list those websites. Navicrawler collects those data while you navigate, helping you to understand your own exploration. Its create graphs (but you will have to use other softwares - such as Pajek or Guess- to visualize them.) Navicrawler has been developed mainly for the needs of social sciences research. Its aims is to ease gathering helpful data for the study of the web. It was build to allow experts to explore the web, to visualize it as a territory, and to constitute corpuses useful for them. Navicrawler is a free software, open source under GPL licence.
• Strech
• http://www.elastictech.com/index.html STRETCH is a patented Java based technology which allows for visualization of large amounts of information at once (trees that consist of 10,000's nodes). With STRETCH understanding and managing information becomes easier: patterns in data structures are readily apparent, disorientation in the data space is eliminated, and navigation is efficient. The interface is elegant and intuitive; hierarchical information is mapped naturally from top, the root, to bottom - as the tree branches out and down. Please see Demos for some sample Java applets that highlight our capabilities.http://www.elastictech.com/html/demos.html
• Tilebar
• http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=104&lang=2 For exploratory researchs. TileBar is a visualisation technique for document search that allows the user to get a clearer idea of what has been retrieved by the search engine, adding serendipity (accidental discovery) to the concept of relevance.
• Organize your references
• Endnote ****
• http://www.endnote.com/ Endnote is a software package designed to help you to organize bibliographic references and create a bibliography. EndNote allows you to: -Search for citations in databases (such as PubMed) and library catalogs.tware designed to help access and organize bibliographic references. -Retrieve relevant citations (from databases like Web Of Science) and import them into EndNote. - Build your bibliography and organize your references. Endnote at MIT http://libraries.mit.edu/help/endnote/index.html#whatis
• RefWorks **
• http://www.refworks.com/ RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool . It is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
• Transana - for visual analysis
• http://www.transana.org/ Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips. Transana is inexpensive and Open Source. It was developed at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, where it continues to be maintained and enhanced. It is widely used in the education research community, where video is an integral part of most researchers' methods. Researchers in many other disciplines also find it useful in their work. Transana is cross-platform. Transana runs on Windows and Apple OS X in both single-user and multi-user versions. for more info : http://www.transana.org/about/index.htm
• Scribe ***
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/scribe/index.php Scribe is a free cross-platform note-taking program designed especially with historians in mind. Think of it as the next step in the evolution of traditional 3x5 note cards. Scribe allows you to manage your research notes, quotes, thoughts, contacts, published and archival sources, digital images, outlines, timelines, and glossary entries. You can create, organize, index, search, link, and cross-reference your note and source cards. You can assemble, print, and export bibliographies, copy formatted references to clipboard, and import sources from online catalogs. You can store entire articles, add extended comments on each card in a separate field, and find and highlight a particular word within a note or article. Scribe's uses range from an undergraduate history research seminar to a major archival research project.
• Zotero ****
• http://www.zotero.org/ Zotero is a free, easy-to-use, open source research tool that runs in the Firefox web browser and helps scholars gather and organize, annotate, organize, and share the results of their research. It includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store full reference information in author, title, and publication fields and to export that as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes, like the ability to sort, tag, and search in advanced ways. Using its unique ability to sense when you are viewing a book, article, or other resource on the web, Zotero will—on many major research sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for you in the correct fields.
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/moin/ MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python. features flexibility and modular design. Project Admins: jhermann, thomaswaldmann Operating System: 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language), Linux, OS X License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Category: Dynamic Content, Office/Business
• Mediawiki
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki is the WikiEngine used by the WikiPedia project, the DisinfoPedia project, WikiQuote, WikiBooks, WikiTravel, UncycloPedia, and others, including all wikis on WikiCities. It is the wiki engine that hosts the most public wiki pages.The WikiSyntax used is largely based on that of UseModWiki. MediaWiki is written in PHP and uses MySql as a data store.
It is licensed under the GnuGeneralPublicLicense, and free to download. The SourceForge homepage features the latest downloads and links to PhpWikis.
PhpWiki can run on relational databases (MySql, PostgreSQL, etc), DBM files, or flat files. Features include a plugin architecture so you can add all kinds of functionality, full version history, a large set of default pages (which document PhpWiki), InterWiki support, support for several languages, themes, RSS, many administrative functions (dump all pages as HTML, as a zip file, with metadata in mail-compliant headers, page locking, page deletion, and many more).
• TikiWiki
• http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php Tiki is fast becoming a true contender in the CMS(ContentManagementSystem) arena. Combining the powers of wiki and the modularization of P*Nuke Tiki deserves a slot in your CMS testing. There is now a second generation of TikiWiki called BitWeaver (formerly known as TikiPro) that addresses Tiki performance issues.
• http://www.wikiprofessional.info/ Scientists using wiki webwork to annotate findings, establish relationalities, and automatically contact Dr. X of an annotation made by Dr. Y that a relevant entry has been made. Look at the demo.