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Publishing

pachyderm

Pachyderm is a web-based rich-media interactive presentation authoring and publishing system that meets most accessibility requirements. It works off of an extensible template system. Pachyderm allows users to upload multimedia (images, audio, video) and publish them online using pre-defined templates or download them for use on their own website, or on a CD or DVD. Version 3 (released June 2014) now also supports iOS and other non-Flash devices using HTML5, and appears to be a major upgrade. Requires Apache HTTP or Tomcat web server installation (WAMP or MAMP is fine). PachyForge is a community owned and operated Web site designed to improve communications and promote growth within the Pachyderm open source community. The site is intended serve both Pachyderm developers and end-users in sharing ideas and supporting one another. [from the site]. EDITOR's NOTE: Unfortunately, this site seems to have fallen behind, and does not cover the newest release, Version 3. However, it may contain useful links, documentation, and other resources.

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Annotating

PACTE

PACTE is a collaborative electronic text annotation platform which is newly-developed by CRIM. PACTE deals with text content and there are three annotation modes( manual, semi-automatic and automatic) for users to choose. Research groups can take advantages of its collaborative nature which allows sharing of analyses and annotations with other members. Other web automated web annotation services based on CRIM’s advanced analytic algorithms are available in this platform, which are used for linguistic analysis, lexical data and semantic analysis. Users can only use this platform if the administrator validates their registration.

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paint.net

From the website: Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

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Search

PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations)

PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations) is a free, open source sequence alignment algorithm for humanities text analysis. It identifies similar passages in a large corpus. Corpuses are indexed for future use, and incoming texts can be compared against the entire corpus.

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Visualization

Pajek

Pajek is a free tool for large network analysis and visualization in continuous development since 1996. It can handle large datasets from diverse sources, such as collaboration networks, citiation networks, data mining, and Internet-derived networks. Pajek is only available for Windows, and was implemented in Delphi (Pascal).

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Creation

Paletton (Color Scheme Designer 4)

Paletton (a.k.a. Color Scheme Designer 4) presents the user with a color wheel and several color scheme styles: Mono Complement Triad Tetrad Free style By moving arrows around the color wheel, users can look at and compare different color palettes suitable for web design, logos, etc. A preview option is available for checking what the color scheme would look like as part of a light or dark website.

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Geoffrey Rockwell

Cool Voyant Tools

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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.

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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

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