Open Source Java Social sciences Software

GenealogyJ is a viewer and editor for genealogic data, suitable for hobbyist, family historian and genealogy researcher. GenJ supports the Gedcom standard, is written in Java and offers many views like family tree, table, timeline, geography and more.

GDBI is a genealogy program integrator. It includes an editor and the lifelines report language. It interfaces to multiple GEDCOM databases and is most popular as a PhpGedView client. At the core is a Java API to simplify adding databases and editors.

Digital space for building and confronting interpretations about documents

This is a small and easy-to-use bio informatics tool for rookie and expert biologists to split files which contain sequences (these files can contain nucleotide, genome or protein sequences) into individual ' .fasta ' files.

The Campaign Simulator is an attempt to statistically model and predict the outcome of an American presidential election; several users assume the roles of competitive candidates and inflict the repercussions of certain decisions on a GSS based dataset.

JSesh is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text processor, currently used by professionnals and amateurs alike. It runs on all platforms supporting java (Mac, Windows, Linux). It can be used as a library for your own softwares too. SOURCES HAVE MOVED TO GITHUB: https://github.com/rosmord/jsesh

VoToL is an electronic voting system. VoToL č un sistema di voto elettronico per qualsiasi istituzione. E' un sistema di votazione via computer

Egonet is a program for the collection and analysis of egocentric network data. It helps you create the questionnaire, collect data, and provide general global network measures and data matrixes that can be used for further analysis by other software. Source code is hosted at http://github.com/egonet/egonet.

The aim of the project VIF is to create a next generation discussion forum, i.e. a forum with extended functionality that makes it especially suitable to discuss complex and controversial questions. Thus, VIF can be used as 'knowledge factory'.

An open-source intelligence platform for political transparency in Sweden, providing governance insights and accountability metrics.

Ancestris is a genealogy program written in Java. It works under any operating system, Windows, Linux, MacOS. Ancestris is developed under GNU General Public License. Ancestris is a genealogy software that closely respects the GEDCOM 5.5 standard which will allow you to work on files that are reliable and that you can exchange and share without losing data. In addition to the editors (Ancestris comes with two editors: a GEDCOM editor and a standard one), it offers many views like tree view, geographic view, chronological view, browsers, tables: individuals, families, etc.. and numerous reports. It offers an opportunity to expand its capabilities and adapt it to your needs and desires thanks to plugins.

This converter bridges from the .ahn file format into GEDCOM 5.5.1, It's a command-line tool written in Java. AhnConvert allows family data, laboriously grabbed decades ago surviving into state-of-the art genealogy software products. The software "Familien Chronik" by Reiner W. Dudde was a genealogy software published by Data Becker as part of the "Goldene Serie" series, back in the 1990's. Especially in Germany this tool penetrated the market to some extent. Generating a project and filling in all relatives and ancestors resulted in an .ahn file. Unfortunatelly, this format cannot be imported by any of the current genealogy software. On the other side, GEDCOM can be read without problems by most of today's programs.

k5nBookReader is a Java Swing application for finding, downloading and reading electronic books. The initial release supports only plain text books from Project Gutenberg.

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.

Graph-RAT is a database abstraction layer designed to make it easy to use a large library of graph-analysis routines on a database as well as add new kinds of algorithms to data mining.

Used to monitor the kids while they are using the computers transparently by taking screen shots every configurable period and store them in specified location, it also support email or FTP upload according to configurations.

The Repast Suite is a family of advanced, free, and open source agent-based modeling and simulation platforms that have been under continuous development for over 20 years. Current source code and releases are hosted on Github https://repast.github.io/

This project proposes a virtual laboratory for social scientists interested in the modelling, analysis and behavioral simulation of power relationships within organizations and more generally in systems of collective action. This software is grounded on the works lead by Sibertin-Blanc and Roggero on the formalization of the Sociology of Organised Action [Crozier and Freidberg]. Visit the homepage of the project on soclabproject.wordpress.com for tutorials, examples and further theoretical position.

jLifeLines is a genealogy program, based on the popular LifeLines project, to help with your family history research. Its primary strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability to easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format.

JFamily is a browser and editor for genealogic data. The data are displayed in a graphical family tree.

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 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 Java Framework for Computer Emulation (JFraCE) is a framework written completely in Java for emulating (old) computer systems on the software level. Currently only an emulator of a Z80-based CP/M machine is implemented.

Simple API for Genealogy

The Virtual Commons (http://commons.asu.edu) is an open software initiative devoted to computational experiments on collective action and resource governance and funded by Arizona State University's Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment (http://cbie.asu.edu). NOTE: we've moved our development to GitHub at https://github.com/virtualcommons - please look for the latest versions there.