Heurist

Academic Knowledge Management System developed by Dr Ian Johnson and his Arts eResearch team at the University of Sydney.

Heurist is an Open Source collaborative web database software for recording and publishing rich, interlinked, heterogenous data integrated with web bookmarking, bibliographic functions, mapping and timelines.

• Heurist site at UniSYD.
• Public source code repository where Heurist development happens now.
• Installation also requires Apache, PHP and MySQL or MariaDB.

FAIMS

The Federated Archaeological Information Management Systems Project at the University of New South Wales. ARC funded. Key component is the mobile application.

• FAIMS website – you can follow the progress here as well as actively contribute.
• FAIMS Android app code repository (requires Google’s Android software development kit).
• FAIMS Web app code repository (Ruby/Rails but use RVM to install, SpatiaLite/SQLite).

Quantum GIS (QGIS)

A mature Open Source alternative to ESRI and MapInfo, available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Android and other platforms.

• QGIS download and documentation.
• QGIS group on LinkedIn.
• Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO).