Global InformationHeurist information
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| Original author(s) | Ian Johnson (Team Leader), Artem Osmakov (Senior Developer), Jessica Norris (Designer), Mitema Emmanuel (Programmer), Vincent Sheehan (Documentation/Webmaster), Abed Kassis (Server Manager), Tom Murtagh, Kim Jackson, Steve White and others.. |
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| Developer(s) | Faculty of Arts at The University of Sydney |
| Stable release | v5.1.10
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| Written in | PHP, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Linux, Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web-based user-configurable data management software |
| License | GNU GPLv3+ |
| Website | heuristnetwork github |
| As of | December 2019 |
Heurist is an Open Source online database builder and CMS publisher designed for Humanities research data and collections, including data on people, organisations, places, events, artefacts, documents, media, bibliographic records,[1] contemporary stories and other data which is rich in text and classification data, richly interlinked, and often heterogeneous.[2]
Heurist was originally designed by Ian Johnson (from 2005) and developed by the (now disbanded) Arts eResearch unit (AeR) at the University of Sydney. It continues to be actively developed within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (version 6 released 2021). Free web services for building research databases are available at https://heuristplus.sydney.edu.au/ and https://heurist.Huma-Num.fr . New Heurist servers can be set up using installation packages downloadable from the project web site (http://HeuristNetwork.org). The source is available at https://github.com/HeuristNetwork/heurist).
Heurist was developed to overcome three problems identified as common to researchers in the Humanities (and others):
- the technical expertise required to set up rich heterogeneous databases with relationships between entities, and to publish data selectively to the web
- the fragmentation of research data across many separate poorly-connected or incompatible databases
- problems of sustainability due to the ad hoc nature of custom database development requiring individual maintenance of each database
It aims to tackle these issues by:
- providing a web service supporting the on-demand creation, management and population of new databases through a web interface, and the creation of CMS web sites embedded directly in the databases which have direct access to the database content.
- allowing the storage and interlinking of a wide variety of research data, notes, annotations and digital attachments in a single shared database, while providing individual ‘views’ on this data and workgroup-owned and private areas for research in progress.[3][4]
- centralised update and maintenance of thousands of databases, and automatic update of database formats by newer software versions to ensure backward compatibility (from ~2010). Data can also be dumped in a reloadable archival format.
- ^ What’s new in the world of citation Management?
- ^ Blanke, Tobias; Ann Borda; Gaby Bright; Bridget Soulsby (October 2008). "eResearch Australasia 2008". Ariadne. 57. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ Berman, Merrick (March 2008). Georeferencing Historical Placenames and Tracking Changes Over Time (PDF). Georeferencing Workshop. Harvard University. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ Wynne, Martin (July 2008). "Digital Humanities 2008 Oulu, Finland, June 25-28th" (PDF). CLARIN Newsletter (2): 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2009.