- Content Management Systems: Archivist’s Toolkit
The first open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives. Superseded in September 2013 by the ArchivesSpace application, though users may continue to use the software with support only from user communities.
- Content Management Systems: Archon
Automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website; development efforts merging with Archivist’s Tookit to form ArchivesSapce in September 2013.
- Content Management Systems: Insight (LUNA)
used to build, manage and share digital collections of any size
- Content Management Systems: MediaMonkey
media contents management software with strong metadata management support; an alternative to iTunes
- Content Management Systems: ArchivesSpace
An open-source web application to manage descriptive information for archives, manuscripts, and digital objects, building on features of Archon and Archivists Toolkit
- Content Management Systems: CONTENTdm
digital collection management software offering storage and retrieval software for multimedia collections
- Content Management Systems: Digital Commons
Open Access suite of tools and services that enables institutions to manage, display, and publish scholarship to the web (institutional repository software)
- Content Management Systems: Drupal
Open Source content management system
- Content Management Systems: DSpace
Open Archive Initiative (OAI)-compliant Open Source software released by MIT for archiving e-prints and other kinds of academic content
- Content Management Systems: eXist-db
Open Source repository and retrieval engine for XML documents
- Content Management Systems: Fedora
Open Source digital repository software
- Content Management Systems: Greenstone
suite of Open Source software for building and distributing digital library collections
- Content Management Systems: SAMMAprep (Front Porch Digital)
modular, mobile accessioning station designed for use with archival masters of almost any media type
- Database Software: MySQL
Open Source database management system
- Database Software: PostgreSQL
object-relational database system; has features of traditional proprietary database systems with enhancements to be found in next-generation database management systems
- Database Software: Siebel
customer-relationship management software
- Database Software: MS Access
relational database software
- Database Software: MS Excel
spreadsheet software
- Metadata Management Software: Mp3tag
batch tool for editing, cover art, and import/export of embedded audio metadata
- Metadata Management Software: Metadata Manager (Informatica)
web-based repository designed for use in metadata management; provides the capability to capture data definitions
- Metadata Management Software: MusicBrainz Picard
music metadata management software – the “official MusicBrainz tagger”
- Metadata Management Software: Sonic Annotator
batch tool for feature extraction and annotation of audio files
- Metadata Management Software: MarcEdit
windows-based MARC editing tool and converter
- Metadata Management Software: BWF MetaEdit
performs embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files
- Metadata Management Software: ExifTool
command-line application for reading, writing, and editing metadata in a variety of file formats
- Metadata Management Software: BWAV Writer / Lister / Reader
suite of applications for managing embedded BWAV metadata
- Mobile Apps: AudioTagger Pro
manages audio metadata in batch or individually; supports a variety of audio file formats
- Music Notation: Sibelius
music notation software
- Music Notation: Variations
digital music library software that provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images with a flexible access control framework to ensure respect for intellectual property
- Music Notation: Finale
music notation software
- Music Notation: MusicXML
designed to represent musical scores in common Western musical notation; has interchange format for notation, performance, analysis, and retrieval
- Programming: Django
Python web framework
- Programming: Hydrangea
software stack that enables the creation, retrieval, updating, and deletion of digital content through a user-friendly repository interface that can be adapted and extended to deal with multiple content types
- Programming: OpenWMS
workflow management system for digital objects; provides a complete metadata creation system for analog and digital materials with services to ingest objects and metadata into a Fedora repository and to export these objects and metadata, individually and in bulk, in a METS/XML wrapper
- Programming: Perl
computer programming language designed for multi-tasking and real-time programming
- Programming: PHP
server-side scripting language designed for web development
- Programming: python
interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language; there is also pymarc for analyzing and editing MARC records
- Programming: Solr
Open Source digital repository based on the Apache Lucene Java search library
- Programming: XTF (eXtensible Text Framework)
powerful Open Source platform for providing access to digital content
- Text Editors: oXygen
XML editor
- Text Editors: XMetaL
XML-based software for structured authoring and content collaboration
- Text Editors: NoteTab Pro
text and HTML editor; there is also a “light” version for free
Content Management
- ArchivesSpace
- An open-source web application to manage descriptive information for archives, manuscripts, and digital objects, building on features of Archon and Archivists Toolkit
- Avalon
- digital music library software that provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images with a flexible access control framework to ensure respect for intellectual property
- CONTENTdm
- digital collection management software offering storage and retrieval software for multimedia collections
- Digital Commons
- Open Access suite of tools and services that enables institutions to manage, display, and publish scholarship to the web (institutional repository software)
- Drupal
- Open Source content management system
- DSpace
- Open Archive Initiative (OAI)-compliant Open Source software released by MIT for archiving e-prints and other kinds of academic content
- Insight (LUNA)
- used to build, manage and share digital collections of any size
- Islandora
- Islandora is a free and open-source software digital repository system based on Fedora Commons, Drupal, and other applications.
- MediaMonkey
- media contents management software with strong metadata management support; an alternative to iTunes
- Sonic Visualizer
- application for inspecting and analyzing the contents of music audio files
Databases
- eXist-db
- Open Source repository and retrieval engine for XML documents
- MySQL
- Open Source database management system
- PostgresSQL
- object-relational database system; has features of traditional proprietary database systems with enhancements to be found in next-generation database management systems
Metadata Management
- AudioTagger
- manages audio metadata in batch or individually; supports a variety of audio file formats
- BWF MetaEdit
- performs embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files
- ExifTool
- command-line application for reading, writing, and editing metadata in a variety of file formats
- MarcEdit
- windows-based MARC editing tool and converter
- Mp3tag
- batch tool for editing, cover art, and import/export of embedded audio metadata
- MusicBrainz Picard
- music metadata management software – the “official MusicBrainz tagger”
- oXygen
- XML editor
- PowerCenter (Informatica)
- web-based repository designed for use in metadata management; provides the capability to capture data definitions
- Solr
- Open Source digital repository based on the Apache Lucene Java search library
- Sonic Annotator
- batch tool for feature extraction and annotation of audio files
- XMetaL
- XML-based software for structured authoring and content collaboration
- XTF (eXtensible Text Framework)
- powerful Open Source platform for providing access to digital content
Programming
- Django
- Python web framework
- Perl
- computer programming language designed for multi-tasking and real-time programming
- PHP
- server-side scripting language designed for web development
- python
- interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language; there is also pymarc for analyzing and editing MARC records
Other Software
- Dorico
- Music notation software
- Fedora
- Open Source digital repository software
- Finale
- Music notation software
- Greenstone
- Suite of Open Source software for building and distributing digital library collections
- MEI-Friend
- MEI-friend is an open source browser-based tool for encoded music. It combines a text editor, validation, engraging, and MIDI playback into one application, streamlining encoding work and providing for considerably easier introduction to MEI and its capabilities, and creating a particularly useful pedagogical tool.
- MuseScore
- Open Source music notation software
- NoteTab Pro
- Text and HTML editor; there is also a “light” version for free
- Sibelius
- Music notation software
- Siebel
- Customer-relationship management software