Open Source Social sciences Software

wxMUN is a tool for managing Model United Nations debates. It capacities include, but are not limited to, managing committee members and speakers' lists as well as voting procedures.

The Deep Email Miner Application is a software solution for the multistaged analysis of an Email Corpus. Social network analysis and text mining techniques are connected to enable an in depth view into the underlying information. The self-executable Version 1.1 jar file will now run on Java 1.5 or higher. A Windows executable file of Version 1.1 is also provided in the Files section. Documentation can be found on the project homepage.

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.

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.

Toes Online is a person registration and management system which can be used by organisations to registrate members. It is a powerful tool with many features, including e-mailing, grouping and financial tools, with much focus on security and easy usage.

Votorola is e-democracy software in support of primary elections and rule making. We provide the tools to enable a participatory democracy based on public deliberation, collaborative drafting and free voting.

WYMIWYG KnoBot is a content management system for the semantic web designed to promote the exchange of content with a P2P and reputation based system. The aim is to create a socio-topical space, a perspective dependent space of information and knowledge.

@rbre uses X3D to let people create, visualize, browse and share genealogical data, by using 2D individual icons assembled in 3D family trees. @rbre will include P2P functions for sharing.

Create collaborative social websites (like Ning, Myspace, Yahoo or Google groups). Each group can create a multiple web pages. They get a drop in guestbook, blog, forum and wiki. Each group is fully customizable using xHTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.

Askarand is an online survey tool. Users can easily create and manage surveys through a web-based interface. Askarand aims to meet the needs of the scientific community for a feature-rich, free survey tool.

Avocado is a Java and PHP port of the trust metrics algorithm behind advogato.org, with a new data model, developer tools, and utilities.

Classifier4J is a java library that provides an API for automatic classification of text. The default (and only current) implementation of this API is a Bayesian classifier. This library can be used for multiple purposes - as a spam filter or a blog cl

CRML - Conflict Resolution Markup Language - http://www.equiforum.org - is an open source innitiative to develop an XML based Semantic Web ontology (RDF, OWL) for researchers interested in peace to create a standard way of collecting and sharing informa

Dictionary Additions Management System (DAMS), a collection of open source translation dictionaries. These files are compatible with the Open Translation Engine (OTE). For more info, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/ote/

Direct Democracy Portal, mixing open source with politics to create a portal for online organisations governed through direct democracy. Using maven, mysql, hibernate annotations, spring and ThinWire. Now on http://sourceforge.net/projects/cia/

DogRescue is a portal site, written in PHP which is used to track the activities of volunteers working for dog rescue organizations. It tracks the location and status of dogs, contact info for volunteers, and lots of other things.

SURVEY is Educara's research-grade, web-based data acquisition tool written in PHP. SURVEY makes it easy for anybody to build and manage web based data collection. SURVEY is useful for both commercial and academic researchers.

Downloads emails, scans the message body looking for "From:... To:..." blocks, reconstructs social relations and saves everything into a database. A navigator then allows you to browse friendship relations and perform searches through the contacts.

FOAFRealm (also called D-FOAF in version 2.0) is a distributed user profile management system based on FOAF. FOAFRealm is a set of tools that enables to manipulate FOAF (Friend-of-a-Friend) information within J2EE application and provides Realm implement

Harvasset provides individuals/organizations with an easy to use and effective way to capture, collate, and circulate information about the know-how they use to be successful. It is the first 'grass roots' approach to comprehensive Knowledge Management

ItsEaling (Ealing Studios London UK) is a web based application which enables new p2p users to locate movies and new friends via the Internet. Expert p2p users can accumulate and trade p2p and other movie information for fun, recognition and cash.

An expandable and portable XML file format and programming tools to retrieve various indices, readings and Meanings from that XML file. Originally based on Jim Breen's popular KanjiDic file.

Kaph provides a portable (written in Java) method by which to display and guide users through multiple-subject research surveys. Configuration is handled via XML files. Support for a wide range of types of questions is provided.

Konfidi is a trust framework that uses topical trust values from a social network of authenticated people. When you receive an email from someone you do not know, but he/she is in the network, Konfidi will compute an inferred trust value for you.

e-survey is an online survey management system, designed for high performance, with several features that make it suitable for social sciences: longitudinal studies (returning respondents), mail invites, and extra usability for response accuracy.