Recent Projects
Open PTV is an open source particle tracking velocimtery developed collaboratively by several research groups, including one lead by our client Alex Liberzohn, Head of the Turbulence Structure Laboratory at Tel Aviv University. The Research Software Company contributed to this project by creating a complete installation package for OpenPTV’s Python wrapper. We also created the…
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Cue Indiana Jones music! Seriously, who wouldn’t want to spend time at a real archaeological dig, finding remnants of objects that have been buried for hundreds or thousands of years. We certainly do. That’s why we were thrilled beyond pottery shards when the Israeli Antiquities Association and researcher Avshalom Karasik of the Archaeology Institute of…
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Sometimes the job of the Digital Humanist is to re-animate and invigorate something that appears lifeless. That’s what a team of researchers and editors hope to do by creating the Frankenstein Variorium in honor of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s landmark work. ( A variorum is an edition of a work that incorporates multiple…
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Onomasticon may sound like an obscure Jeopardy category, but it’s actually a pretty common phrase in the world of Digital Humanities. An Onomasticon is a list of names or words in a specialized field sorted in a logical way other than alphabetically. The Onomasticon we created was for Dr. Mitka Golub, of the Hebrew University’s…
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The Dead Sea Scrolls aren’t dead to us! Or to anyone else passionate about biblical archaeology. Since being discovered in a series of caves near the Dead Sea in 1946, these fragile bits of papyrus containing fragments of the bible dating back thousands of years, have been studied, analyzed, and admired by historians and scholars…
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UCCA is an open-source, flexible web-application for syntactic and semantic phrase-based annotation in general, and for UCCA annotation in particular. UCCAApp supports a variety of formal properties that have proven useful for syntactic and semantic representation, such as discontiguous phrases, multiple parents and empty elements, making it useful to a variety of other annotation schemes…
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Peer to Peer Marketplaces is a fancy startup way of saying, “people share stuff and everyone benefits.” Ori Heffetz and Daniel Wood, both of Hebrew University, working with innovative startup, Couchsurfing.com asked us to help them collect and structure data to assist their research project on the sharing economy. We used asynchronous Python code to collect the data…
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Israel’s National Center for Personalized Medicine is a cutting-edge medical facility that provides ground-breaking care to its patients. We were proud to help them by building their customer facing portal. We worked with Ophir Adiv Tal, at the Weizmann Institute of Science and created a system that uses a Python/Django backend with an AngularJS front-end.
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One of our favorite things at The Research Software Company is making things that are really old, accessible in ways that are really new. That’s why we were especially excited to help Leore Grossman of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem develop a database for 3D models of archaeological artifacts. We implemented in Python/Django with a straight…
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Everyone is good at something, but sometimes you need help figuring out what that is. The Research Software Company is good at lots of things of course, and we used some of them to assist Prof. Itamar Gati of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem develop an online questionnaire to assess professional aptitude and offer individualized career…
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