PANDORÆ is a software built for scientific research. Its purpose is to enable its users to retrieve, normalize, and explore collections of documents from various established sources.
This software is under active development. You can find installation and usage help on the PANDORÆ user forum. Please use the GitHub issues only for code related issues.
PANDORÆ is an electron-based portable desktop application. You can click on the releases link and download the most recent version relevant to your operating system. It does not need to be installed. If your computer can support the Google Chrome web browser, chances are you can run PANDORÆ.
Most databases useful for research now offer APIs, that is software interfaces made to answer requests sent by other software. PANDORÆ helps you send such request without having to write any type of code, store the retrieved content in Zotero, and explore the resulting collection using its visualization tools. It offers a range of premade connections with services such as:
- Scientific research outputs providers such as bioRxiv, Scopus, Web of Science or ISTEX.
- Institutional repositories such as the Bibliothèque de France Web Archives or the French parliamentary debates data collected by Regards Citoyens.
- Web crawling exploration strategies such as Hyphe.
- Social media such as Twitter (now under the form of flat datasets).
- Clinical trials data.
You can find an example of what PANDORÆ can do in this article.
Using PANDORÆ gives you a stable and (to some extent) reproducible way to obtain data, save it on multiple supports, and explore it following several types of perspectives.
PANDORÆ is an open-source software which welcomes enhancements. If a data source you need is not available, or if you would like to have a different way to explore a collection, do ask for it or even propose a pull request if you're up to it!