Open Source Software Library

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada) manages national HPC clusters running customized Slurm workload manager configurations and contributes open-source tooling for scientific computing. Their open-source stack powers university research across the country.

Canadian research networks including CANARIE and provincial NREN members such as ORION and BCNET are major contributors to open-source network authentication and AAI infrastructure. Their contributions to FreeRADIUS and eduroam infrastructure enable secure network access for millions of students and researchers.

CANARIE manages the Canadian Access Federation (CAF), which provides open-source Shibboleth identity federation infrastructure enabling single sign-on for over 300 Canadian universities, colleges, and research institutions. Their open tools and configuration guides are publicly available.

OpenMRS is an open-source medical record system used in developing countries. The University of Toronto and affiliated Canadian researchers are among the primary contributors to its core platform and modules, helping deliver healthcare technology globally.

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) publishes numerous open-source tools and datasets for materials science, climate modelling, construction standards, and aerospace research. Their open-data and open-software initiatives are publicly available via the Government of Canada's open resource portal.

Statistics Canada releases open-source tools and R/Python packages for statistical analysis and data dissemination. Their tools include the Canadian Statistical Dissemination Architecture (CSDA), open microdata tools, and visualization packages used by researchers across Canada.

Axiom is a free, open-source computer algebra system with a long history. Canadian mathematicians supported through NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) have contributed significantly to its formal mathematics libraries and documentation.

Developed by the National Research Council of Canada, the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon (EmoLex) is a widely-cited open linguistic resource mapping words to emotions and sentiments. It is freely available for research and has been used in thousands of NLP studies worldwide.

Jupyter Book is an open-source tool for building publication-quality books and documents from computational material. Jupyter Book allows users to write their content in Markdown files or Jupyter notebooks, include computational elements (e.g., code cells) in either type, include rich syntax such as citations, cross-references, and numbered equations, and using a simple command, run the embedded code cells, cache the outputs and convert this content into: a web-based interactive book and a publication-quality PDF.

The Littlest JupyterHub (TLJH) distribution helps you provide Jupyter Notebooks to 1-100 users on a single server. The primary audience are people who do not consider themselves 'system administrators' but would like to provide hosted Jupyter Notebooks for their students or users. All users are provided with the same environment, and administrators can easily install libraries into this environment without any specialized knowledge.

Companion documentation for Veterans Affairs Canada’s Find Benefits and Services product. It captures product context, research and operating guidance that can be reused by service teams.

Public repository for opportunities to participate in CDS-facilitated user research. It supports transparent recruitment and helps teams publish research activities in a reusable format.

A platform for operating preprint servers and sharing research before formal peer review.

A climate data platform providing analysis, processing, and access services for researchers and decision-makers.

A federated genomics platform that enables secure analysis of distributed Canadian health research data.

A research data repository platform used extensively by Canadian universities and research organizations.

A web-based survey platform for designing questionnaires and collecting responses.

A data collection platform for surveys and field research, including offline workflows.

A server for managing mobile and offline data collection with Open Data Kit.

A Markdown editor for academic writing, note-taking, and citation workflows.

A research data management repository platform for institutions and scientific communities.

A digital repository platform used by universities and institutions to preserve and provide access to scholarly materials.

A desktop tool for cleaning, transforming, reconciling, and exploring messy data.

An interactive development environment for notebooks, code, data, and scientific workflows.

A statistical analysis application designed as an open alternative to proprietary statistics packages.