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TAPoR catalogues concordancers, annotators, topic models, stylometry packages, and visualization environments. Every record notes the platform, the license, and what the tool is actually good for.
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The Versioning Machine, now in version 4.0, is a framework and an interface for displaying multiple versions of text, and encodes the text according to TEI guidelines. It incorporates features found in both critical editions and electronic publication, in addition to providing an environment for textual editors to comparatively view the results of their edits. This tool may be downloaded for use on a local machine, or hosted on one's server for web usage.
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VINCI is a natural language generation environment, first introduced in 1986 and with a sustained web presence. It provides linguists with a collection of linguist-friendly metalanguages for modelling natural language. It can generate sentences and words according to user specifications to assist in the study of linguistic phenomena.
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Virtual Lightbox is a Java-base tool for comparing images online developed for the academic humanities, the library and museum community, and any users who use images as an important data type. It is available as both an application, which functions as a virual whiteboard and includes peer-to-peer, and an applet, which provides a flexible environment for image comparison. Virtual Lightbox was first developed in 2000, with version 2.0 of applet released in 2004.
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Visual Browser is a Java application for visualizing RDF data using the Jena framework. The resultant graphs are animated and permit users to expand and hide nodes and switch the view of edges, allowing them to focus on a small part of the network. The visualization engine is derived from TouchGraph LLC and follows the navigation approach of WebOFDAV, a system based on the concept of exploratory navigation to reduce chances of getting “lost in hyperspace” situation.
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Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a free, open source application for mapping concepts, ideas and digital content. It enables users to generate nodes and links, and apply a simple set of tools to explore the relationships. VUE is, in the words of its developers, an application to "integrate, organize and contextualize electronic content" in research or learning environments. Its tools include visualization, dynamic content mapping, semantic mapping, enhanced pathways and search functions.
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VisualEyes is web-based authoring tool for creating dynamic visualizations offered by the University of Virginia. It can be used to combine images, maps, charts, video and research data into a single visualization. It is comprehensively documented, including a reference guide to its XML structure and scripting, and to structuring data for inclusion.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
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Geoffrey Rockwell
Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.
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Holly Pickering
Interested in audio production and editing? Here are a few programs that can help you get on your way. Some of them are free, some not, but all are helpful and useful.
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Jason Bradshaw
This list compiles a suite of tools that make up Kynan Ly's Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) Library. Recipes to these notebooks can be found on methodi.ca
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