Open Source History Software

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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)

timeline is a script that generates a graphic historic timeline in some formats (html, ps, text, png, etc...) based on a source file. You will need Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) to run this software.