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):
It aims to tackle these issues by: