Looking for useful webapps for reserachers

[Pablo Winant]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to come up with a complete list of web applications that are useful for research or teaching. I’m sure people on this list have heard about and/or used plenty of them and I’m eager to hear any feedback they might have about it.
In particular, have you used them to collaborate with coauthors ? Are there solutions worth paying for (subjective assessment allowed…) ? Is it already realistic to fully work from the cloud ?

Best,

Pablo

Here are a few propositions to start with:

computational platforms

• juliabox.org
• wakari
• sagemathcloud
• pythonanywhere

paper management

• mendeley
• researchgate

latex edititing

• sharelatex
• authorea
• detexify

document edition

• google docs
• office 365

collaboration

• slack.com
• basecamp

conferencing

• hangouts
• appear.in

source control

• github
• gitlab
• bitbucket

file storage/sharing

• dropbox
• google drive
• seafile

[Houtan]

Hey Pablo,

Just a small note: at Chevaleret we use Gitter which we preferred to Slack because it's open source. No experience with Basecamp.

Also, I don't know if you all have experience storing binary files with git. So far we've used git-lfs, but would be open to other suggestions. The drawback to git-lfs being that it's a bit of work to set up a local copy of the binary file server and it's not clear how to back it up from gitlab (to use it on github requires an enterprise account)

Best,
Houtan

[Pablo Winant]

Thank you Houtan and Stephane,

I didn't know Zotero had a web interface. Sandstorm also look very interesting but I must say I don't completely understand what it does. When you use it to create a new document, say with Sharelatex, it is not clear where the files are ultimately stored.

Speaking about opensource applications, have you tried to install your own instances of Jupyterhub ?

Best,

Pablo

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Stéphane Adjemian <ste...@dynare.org> wrote:

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Hi all,

Things I (will) use(d) that are not in the list:

Zotero <https://www.zotero.org>

ownCloud <https://owncloud.org/> (for file sharing and more)

Gitter <https://gitter.im>

Bittorrent Sync (decentralized file sharing) <https://www.getsync.com/>

Syncthing <https://syncthing.net/>, a free alternative to BTSync

And I want to try

https://sandstorm.io/

(Ideally) I would not use a lot of the web applications/services you
mention, they are not free (Google, Github, Dropbox, Office, ...) and
I tend to prefer open source alternatives. More generally, I am not
really convinced by cloud apps/services, because I like (and often
need) to work offline.

Best,
Stéphane.

On 10/12/2015 15:32, Pablo Winant wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am trying to come up with a complete list of web applications
> that are useful for research or teaching. I’m sure people on this
> list have heard about and/or used plenty of them and I’m eager to
> hear any feedback they might have about it. In particular, have you
> used them to collaborate with coauthors ? Are there solutions worth
> paying for (subjective assessment allowed…) ? Is it already
> realistic to fully work from the cloud ?
>
> Best,
>
> Pablo
>
> Here are a few propositions to start with:
>
>
> computational platforms
>

> * juliabox.org <https://www.juliabox.org/> * wakari
> <https://wakari.io/> * sagemathcloud <https://cloud.sagemath.com/>
> * pythonanywhere <https://www.pythonanywhere.com/>
>
>
> paper management
>
> * mendeley <https://www.mendeley.com/> * researchgate
> <https://www.researchgate.net/>
>
>
> latex edititing
>
> * sharelatex <https://www.sharelatex.com/> * authorea
> <https://www.authorea.com/> * detexify
> <http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html>
>
>
> document edition
>
> * google docs <https://docs.google.com/> * office 365
> <https://login.microsoftonline.com/>
>
>
> collaboration
>
> * slack.com <https://slack.com/> * basecamp
> <https://basecamp.com/>
>
>
> conferencing
>
> * hangouts <https://hangouts.google.com/> * appear.in
> <https://appear.in/>
>
>
> source control
>
> * github <https://github.com/> * gitlab <https://gitlab.com/> *
> bitbucket <https://www.bitbucket.org/%E2%80%8E>
>
>
> file storage/sharing
>
> * dropbox <http://www.dropbox.com/%E2%80%8E> * google drive
> <https://www.google.com/drive/> * seafile
> <https://www.seafile.com/en/home/>
>
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[Stéphane Adjemian]

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Hi all,

Things I (will) use(d) that are not in the list:

Zotero <https://www.zotero.org>

ownCloud <https://owncloud.org/> (for file sharing and more)

Gitter <https://gitter.im>

Bittorrent Sync (decentralized file sharing) <https://www.getsync.com/>

Syncthing <https://syncthing.net/>, a free alternative to BTSync

And I want to try

https://sandstorm.io/

(Ideally) I would not use a lot of the web applications/services you
mention, they are not free (Google, Github, Dropbox, Office, ...) and
I tend to prefer open source alternatives. More generally, I am not
really convinced by cloud apps/services, because I like (and often
need) to work offline.

Best,
Stéphane.



On 10/12/2015 15:32, Pablo Winant wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I am trying to come up with a complete list of web applications
> that are useful for research or teaching. I’m sure people on this
> list have heard about and/or used plenty of them and I’m eager to
> hear any feedback they might have about it. In particular, have you
> used them to collaborate with coauthors ? Are there solutions worth
> paying for (subjective assessment allowed…) ? Is it already
> realistic to fully work from the cloud ?
>
> Best,
>
> Pablo
>
> Here are a few propositions to start with:
>
>
> computational platforms
>