For researchers who work with text
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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Visualization
RDF2SVG is a web-based tool from the Rhizomik initiative for transforming RDF/XML data into an SVG representation. It can also accept N-triples and N3 input, and includes a feature for filtering the user's defined preferred language from the source data.
Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view.
Analysis
The main programs that comprise the Information processor are called the analyst server and query or knowledge processor. The analyst program can be called from a command line, from an html form, or through a TCP/IP socket protocol. The query processor can be accessed with any browser using HTML commands. It analyzes text and allows the user to search it.
Creation
REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset. REAPER supports a vast range of hardware, digital formats and plugins, and can be comprehensively extended, scripted and modified.
Collaboration
Recogito is an online platform for collaborative document annotation. Recogito provides a personal workspace where you can upload, collect and organize your source materials - texts and images - and collaborate in their annotation and interpretation. Recogito enables you to make your work more visible on the Web more easily, and to expose the results of your research as Open Data.
Search
Recoll is used to search for documents based on their content as well as thier filenames. Recoll can search documents on many different formats and from a variety of storages (files, archive members, email attachments, etc while transparently handling decompression. It is free on Linux, open source, and licensed under the GPL. It is based on the very capable Xapian search engine library, for which it provides a powerful text extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, Qt graphical interface.
Week of 8 Nov – 14 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
Curated list created by experience authors in the fields.
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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