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September 7, 2013
Bookmarks for September 7, 2013
Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on
FromThePage
FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It’s easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search.
Scratch – Imagine, Program, Share
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Kojo Home
Kojo is an open source App that runs on Linux, Windows, and the Mac. It is a Learning Environment – with many different features that enable play, exploration, creation, and learning in the areas of: Computer Programming, Math and Science, Systematic and Computational Thinking, Art, Music, and Creative Thinking, Computer and Internet Literacy
Kazam Screencaster
Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.
Xournal
Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. It is free software (GNU GPL) and runs on Linux (recent distributions) and other GTK+/Gnome platforms.
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September 3, 2013
Bookmarks for September 3, 2013
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ProjectPier
ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface.
FromThePage
FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It’s easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search.
Vireo
Vireo is a turnkey Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Management System addressing all steps of the ETD process, from submission to publication to preservation. Vireo provides students the ability to submit their digital theses and dissertations via a simple online interface. Graduate offices can use Vireo to manage the ETD submission and approval process.
Neatline
Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.
OpenRFP
OpenRFP incorporates a database of library software vendors, who present their ILS and RFID functionality as descriptive statements, which can be used as specifications.
RFP Library
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August 20, 2013
Bookmarks for August 20, 2013
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Zapier
Zapier enables you to automate tasks between other online services (services like Salesforce, Basecamp, Gmail, and 233 more).
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August 15, 2013
Bookmarks for August 15, 2013
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Coordino
Coordino allows you to create a question and answer system for you and your users to enjoy.
Discourse
Discourse is the 100% open source, next-generation discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Whenever you need a mailing list, a forum to discuss something or a chat room where you can type paragraphs consider Discourse.
CodeVisually.com
A directory or library of tools and solutions. A resource that offers a simple method to painlessly find the resource you need and fast.
Telescope
Telescope is an open-source social news app (think Hacker News or Reddit) built with Meteor, a real-time Javascript framework.
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August 14, 2013
Bookmarks for August 14, 2013
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LikeWhere
Where to go in New Cities based on what you like in cities you already know
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August 6, 2013
Bookmarks for August 6, 2013
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DocHive
An open-source program to help journalists turn PDF files into structured data released by Raleigh Public Record, an online nonprofit news organization based in Raleigh, N.C. The new software will enable reporters to take an image containing data — say a scanned campaign finance return — and turn that into a spreadsheet.
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July 31, 2013
Bookmarks for July 31, 2013
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A free education icon set
pump.io
A stream server that does most of what people really want from a social network.
OpenCar
OpenCar provides an open platform for automakers to safely connect drivers to their digital worlds.
PressBooks
Easily create ebooks, typeset PDFs, and webbooks. Choose from professionally designed book themes. One button publishing.
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July 29, 2013
Child of the Library
Library friends have you seen this video from OSCON 2011? If not you should watch/listen and share far and wide!! Piers Cawley sang to OSCON a couple years ago about his outrage at library closings in his area.
Lyrics are here and references here.
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July 28, 2013
Bookmarks for July 28, 2013
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SoundCloud
SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks.
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July 26, 2013
Bookmarks for July 26, 2013
Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious.
CODE2040
CODE2040 aims to close the achievement, wealth, and skills gaps for Blacks and Latinos in the United States by creating access, awareness, and opportunities in technology and engineering.
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