UCSB Open Source

A listing of the University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB) presence in open source.

We cannot guarantee that this list is up-to-date, and it's definitely not comprehensive.

This project was originally created by Logan Franken. Revived and maintained here with Logan’s permission and encouragement.

Academic Groups and Labs

• Allosphere Research Group
• ArchLab
• Bionic Vision Lab
• Computer Security Group
• DataONE (NCEAS)
• Earth Research Institute (Unofficial)
• Environmental Markets Lab (emLab)
• Experimental Cosmology Group
• Geometric Intelligence Lab
• MEDS Program, Bren School
• NCEAS
• RACELab
• UCSB AMPLab
• Wildfire Resilience Index (NCEAS)

Student Groups

• ACM
• Data Science @ UCSB
• Data Science Collaborative
• Game Development Club
• IEEE
• SB Hacks
• Shellphish
• UCSB Society of Women Engineers
• Women in Computer Science

Staff Groups

• AI Community of Practice
• Web Standards Group

Other

• UCSB IT Internship Program

Projects

Bioimaging

• BisQue
  • An ML Platform for storing, analyzing, and visualizing your data all in the browser.

Computer Engineering

• OpenPiton
  • The world's first open source, general purpose, multithreaded manycore processor.

Digital Humanities

• captua
  • The software of the Digitization Toolkit, a toolkit that allows lower-resourced institutions, collectives, and communities to digitize their archival collections at low cost.
• fisqua
  • An open-source cataloguing platform for archives.
• telar
  • A minimal-computing framework that weaves together IIIF images, audio, video, and texts to create layered visual narratives for digital scholarship, public exhibitions, community storytelling, and classroom projects.
• zasqua
  • A deployment-agnostic system for publishing large collections of digital archives as fast, fully static websites.

Earth and Planetary Sciences

• metacat, metacatUI
  • Repository software for preserving scientific data and metadata.
• metaDIG-py, metaDIG engine, metaDIG-checks, metaDIG webapp
  • Analysis tools for researchers to assess metadata and data records against community recommendations.
• metajam
  • Download data and metadata from repositories in the DataONE network and read them into R.

Geography

• marlin
  • An R package for running spatially explicit simulations of marine fauna and fisheries.
• oceandatr
  • An R package for acquiring, processing, standardizing, and analysing marine data.
• stagg
  • An R package to harmonize the preparation of spatiotemporal raster data, in particular climate observations, for use in statistical analyses.
• Global Flood Mapper
  • A novel Google Earth Engine application for rapid flood mapping using Sentinel-1 SAR.

Geometry

• GeomFuM
  • A modular Python package for advanced machine learning and shape analysis with Functional Maps.
• Geomstats
  • A Python package for computations, statistics, and machine learning on nonlinear manifolds.
• HerBrain
  • Quantifying changes in the female brain during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause.
• Neurometry
  • A computational framework to quantify geometric intelligence in natural and artificial brains.
• TopoBench
  • A comprehensive benchmark suite for topological deep learning.
• TopoX
  • A suite of Python packages for computing, embedding and deep learning on topological domains.

Library and Information Sciences

• Project Surfliner
  • A suite of products and components for digital library infrastructure.
• ocfl-go
  • A Go implementation of the Oxford Common File Layout specification.
• ocfl-tools
  • A command line tool for working with Oxford Common File Layout-based repositories.

Materials Science

• CASM
  • A package to perform first-principles statistical mechanical studies of multi-component crystalline solids.
• FRHEED
  • A program for real-time Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED) analysis.

Virtual Reality Engineering

• allolib
  • A library for interactive multimedia application development, and the primary software used to power the AlloSphere.