Software Repository Listing

This page lists all software/tools available on our Software Repository. The documentation on using a particular tool will be on its separate wiki page.

For information and tutorial on how to access McNair git server, see Software Repository.
Read the tutorial and instructions first before pushing anything to the git-server.

Repositories on McNair git server

Center IT Sysadmin

This repository contains all tools and scripts meant for system administration (stuff like backup scripts..)

• See the Center IT page for current documentation.

Harvard Dataverse

This repository contains all tools and scripts related to Harvard Dataverse.

• The Harvard Dataverse page provides instruction on how to access data.

Geocoding Inventor Locations

This repository holds software for matching Inventor addresses to known locations. There are two programs/scripts that do same job. One is implemented in Perl(old) and other in Python(new). You should probably use the newer tool.

• See Geocoding Inventor Locations (Tool) for documentation on the older version implemented in Perl.
• See Geocoding Inventor Locations - New (Tool) for the newer version in Python.

Matcher

This repository contains the matcher tool which is used to match firm names given two lists.

• See The Matcher (Tool) for documentation.

Patent Data Parser

This repository contains all tools developed for patent data parsing.

• Patent Data (Tool) and Patent Data Extraction Scripts (Tool) pages on the wiki describe our Patent Database schema and corresponding XML parsing tools.
• Also, see USPTO Assignees Data which explains Patent Assignee Database schema and relevant XML parsing tools.

Utilities

This repository contains various utilities developed for text processing and other generally useful tools. See the wiki pages for each tool's documentation.

• Fuzzy match names (Tool)
• Godo (Tool)
• Normalizer. On the git-server we have many different versions like normalize fixed width, normalize surnames.

Web Crawler

This repository contains all software for web crawlers.

• Whois Parser pulls the Whois information given a list for URLs.
• PhD Masterclass - How to Build a Web Crawler: Ed's class on building a web crawler.