Open Source Social sciences Software

Fingerprint Imaging Software -- fingerprint pattern classification, minutae detection, Wavelet Scalar Quantization(wsq) compression, ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 reference implementation, baseline and lossless jpeg, image utilities, math and MLP neural net libs

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library has several open-sourced tools for inputting, manipulating, translating, and transcribing Tibetan-language text, audio, and video. We aim to make using a computer easier for Himalayan peoples and scholars.

Global Consciousness Project uses hardware "random" number generators and finds patterns between that and major world events. This Java applet will run on their webpage and translate that data to music-like audio. Or for general audio synthesizing.

The Appropriate Software Foundation exists to contribute to the usage and development of software appropriate to the information flows within global civil society.

Atavi is an interactive genealogical data visualization tool. It uses XSLT to transform XML data into SVG (Scable Vector Graphics) images. Deploy it as a Java servlet and explore visualizations from a browser that supports SVG. GEDCOM import is planned.

Infographic developed in Flash technology which shows the distribution of members of Boards of Public Policies. (en) -- Infográfico desenvolvido em tecnologia Flash que mostra a distribuição de membros de Conselhos de Políticas Públicas. (pt-BR)

Editor for ethnographic fieldnote entry and management. Content structure and mark-up conform to user supplied dtd. Sample dtd provided. Storage output is xml format file, and inbuilt transformations to other formats via xslt can be user defined.

Geovision is a system for collaboratively maintaining and viewing geographical data, especially data over time. Other types of historical data and its visualization also lie in the project's future.

Graphl is a generic graph visualization and manipulation tool written in Java. Graphl reads and writes RDF files, visualizes them in a flexible and customizeable way and allows users to edit them intuitively. Please see project homepage for more info...

IBISA stands for "Image-Based Identification/Search for Archaeology". It is free software aiming to manage collections of photos of archaeological objects and find similarities between these objects by means of a simple graphical user interface.

The Kromophone is a color-to-sound sensory substitution device. It was designed with the tasks of navigation, object, and environmental navigation in mind.

This project aims to provide a basis of a good LUG organiser, including a question facility (to be solved at socials), event organiser, discussion lists, forums, and other ways to communicate with other LUG members.

This application allows visually restore a cyclorama from a set of photos covering 360 degrees in all directions to horizon. It was specially designed to restore panoramas obtained by Apollo missions in 1969-1972 but it can be used to restore any cyclorama from photos got in your tourist trip (for example). The main principle of the program is in projecting photos on a 360x360 sphere and combining it together. If you select a correct field of view (FOV) for photo images, its combination become ideal for distant points. For moon cyclorama it is also possible to check a Sun and Earth positions on the sky and to compare the result with a LOLA data (provided by the the LRO moon satellite).

MugShots is a directory tool for containing and maintaining contact information about people within an organization. It can create directories in printed form or PDF format, with or without pictures. People can be organized into subgroups as well.

MultiDEILD is an Android application that can aid you in having lucid dreams by using special alarms and light flashes. MultiDEILD is also available as a Windows scriptable software. It can turn on your pc, ring alarms, and put your pc in sleep mode again.

This was created for the YouTube channel [Drachinifel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw). It's designed as a Windows .NET application based on the WPF framework. It plays script files with various backgrounds.

A concept application which shows you, visually, how many 'networked neighbors' you have

Observational Data Recorder permits to read any multimedia file, capture timecodes and associate them to different behavioural sequences. You will be able to export your data in different files and graphs compatible with any spreadsheet software.

PTDsign presents: PTSleep, the opposite of an alarm! This you would use to wake yourself, but what do you do if you want the opposite: Sleeping? This sleeper! Play some nice music and let me fade the volume down for you and turn your pc off.

The PyGE (Python Gutenberg E-text) project is a suite of GUI desktop utilities written in Python to promote and facilitate awareness and enjoyment of works of literature that are available from the archives of Project Gutenberg.

Scatty provides a way to organize and document your life. It combines common tools such as an Atlas, Calendar, Contact List, Digital Album, Folder, and a Notebook into one solution. Think of it as a digitally-enhanced Journal.

Scriptoria is a program that helps you to transcribe scanned old documents, with an interface that combines a text editor and an image viewer.

Web service for getting different views of archived documents. Images can efficiently be resized. Fragments of plain texts and images can be extracted and highlighted.

NEW VERSION - Pocket PC (Compact .Net Framework required)! Use your computer screen to tell you how long you've been giving a speech, compared to predefined limits, using a large on-screen clock, and a green/yellow/red background "stoplight" effect.

A Wiki dedicated to timelines. It visualizes historic matters graphically on a timescale. WikiTimeScale is open source and its created images can be used as wished (e.g. for presentations). (Go to its project homepage: http://www.wikitimescale.org)