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TAPoR Text Analysis Portal for Research

For researchers who work with text

Find a text analysis tool that fits the work.

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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Evernote

Evernote is note-taking software in the cloud, with options for private and shared notebooks. Users can take text notes, and upload files to attach them to notes. Evernote has built-in OCR for images with printed or handwritten text. A premium account allows access to notebooks offline, as well as more storage and embedded PDF search.

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Explainshell

The Explainshell website contains 29761 parsed manpages (a form of software documentation) from sections 1 and 8 found in Ubuntu's manpage repository. It used python and some NLTK to parse code to retrieve information and documentation for each part of the code. The user pastes the command line code into the search box and the code is annotated using D.js visualization.

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Filecamp

Online Digital Asset Management (DAM) and collaboration platform for business use. Offers user management, custom branding and password-protected folders. Digital Asset Management, Secure File Sharing, Media Library, Online Proofing and so much more … Upload, manage and share your files from one good looking, easy-to-use spot in the cloud.

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FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager

Windows .NET based open source Digital Asset Management solution designed for management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets

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forTEXT

forTEXT is a free web service, which helps scholars who are interested in the Digital Humanities to choose digital methods and tools according to their research setting. forTEXT is especially designed for scholars with no or little experience in the field of Digital Humanities. The focus currently lies on literature studies and language, but will be broadened in the future. forTEXT provides scientific insights into traditions and techniques of the Digital Humanities and offers video and text tutorials as well as teaching materials. Currently, forTEXT offers content in German, but is going to be translated into English and other languages soon.

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Freebase

Freebase was "an open, Creative Commons Attribution (aka CC-BY) licensed collection of structured data," and a "platform for accessing and manipulating that data" via API. Almost 40 million entities and assertions about those entities are stored within a graph database. The database was built by pulling in open data and relies on community contribution to stay updated. Freebase was part of the semantic web and emits Linked Open Data (via RDF) for all its entities.

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Geoffrey Rockwell

Cool Voyant Tools

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

Audio Production Software

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.

3 tools

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Jason Bradshaw

TATR: Text Analysis for Twitter Research

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

6 tools

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