Online Resources And Data Sets

Mapping, Charting, and GIS

• GMT - Generic Mapping Tools: An open source collection of tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets and producing PostScript illustrations
• ncview: Ncview is a visual browser for netCDF format files
• Panopoly netCDF viewer: From NASA GISS
• Chart.js: A JavaScript library for interactive charts

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Computer Vision / Text Reading Implementations

• OpenCV: OpenCV tutorials and resources

• CVIPtools at SIUE: Suite of computer vision tools from SIUE with many capabilities

• IPRG Tools: Image Processing Research Group software and tools.

• Diagram Analyzer: Takes a set of graphics primitives from ImageAnalysis (mixture of paths and pixels) originating from diagrams and turns them into an approximation of the original diagram.

• Diagram processing: Basic routines for processing scientific and similar diagrams. Primarily works on clear primitives shapes (lines, symbols, curves, polygons, clear text).

• Hack the Dinos Sapling Detector: Derives phylogenetic tree data from images; does text reading / character recognition, pathfinding

• Google Vision API:

• Facebook DeepMask and SharpMask:

• ClarifAI:

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Miscellaneous Resources and Other External Systems

• Library of Congress: persons, corporations, subject headings, format, titles, geographic locations, roles

• Getty, Thesaurus of Geographic Names: geographic locations

• AMNH local lists: persons, corporations, location of material, and anything else that does not have an authority

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Axiell EMu

Also referred to as "KE EMu" from the prior company name "Knowledge Engineering". This is the software the museum uses to manage collections. Check out database integration with EMu.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

AMNH is a participating member of the BHL consortium of natural history and botanical libraries. We contribute digitized publications and field work to be accessed openly in a global "biodiversity commons." There is some overlap between DSpace and BHL. Like DSpace a.k.a. Digital Special Collections, the BHL is useful for searching for content and finding graphic elements or images.

• BHL REST API Documentation
• BHL developer page