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SpatialNote is a 3D note-taking software. The workspace consists of cubes. SpatialNote allows for working with details from the inside the cube view, and with the big picture from the outside structure view. The idea behind making a 3D note-taking solution is to include spatial memory into the process, and boost memorization by implicit spatial metaphors.The application doesn't require any special skills in 3D.
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Specify is a database platform for museum and herbarium research data. It manages species and specimen information for computerizing biological collections, tracking museum specimen transactions, linking images to specimen records and publishing catalog data to the Internet. Specify is written in Java for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux computers and uses the relational data manager, MySQL, as its data engine. Specify, Java, and MySQL are free and open-source. Specify supports data from specimens, taxonomic and stratigraphic classifications, field notebooks, DNA sequence runs, literature references, as well as from other primary sources. It also manages the information associated with repository agreements, accessions, conservation treatments, collection object containers, images, and document attachments. Data fields in Specify’s form windows can be selected, organized, re-named, and re-sized to suit your curatorial preferences and to eliminate the need for tabbing through multiple data forms. Specify’s “tree” data windows for taxonomy, geography, storage location, chronostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy provide intuitive access to hierarchical data for editing, drag-and-drop synonymization, re-parenting, and for discovering linked collection objects.
Natural Language Processing
The speech tagger allows you to highlight different parts of a text where each part is identified by a different colour. The tool uses TreeTagger to find the different parts of speech. Note that using the TreeTagger tool is very taxing on the server and may take a long time before results are returned.
SpiderOak provides an private and secure online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for all file and data types. It was designed with a 'Privacy-as-a-Platform' approach. The 'Zero-Knowledge' privacy cloud technology provides a central, private place to store data, free from surveillance by private and public entities. Data is fully encrypted end-to-end (not only during transit) and only the user is able to unlock it using their password. Passwords are never stored by SpiderOak and the company cannot see the names of files or folders in your account. SpiderOak allows you to securely backup files (including a built-in versioning system), choose to sync data across all of your devices, and share folders or files privately using a password-protected link. Users can have unlimited devices connected to their SpiderOak account which backs up your data so you are able to restore files, even if they are deleted. Some components of SpiderOak are open source (See GitHub Page). The company intends to be fully open source in the future but as of 2014 their source is not available. New users get 2GB free (no time limit) and can upgrade to more storage as required.
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SPITBOL (Speedy Implementation of SNOBOL) was a complied implementation of SNOBOL4 with additional features, such as string reversal, of particular interest to researchers in the humanities.
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SplitsTree4 is a free Java tool for generating phylogenic (similarity) networks from Universitat Tubingen. While designed for molecular sequence data, it can also visualize humanities data such as document sequence alignments.
Week of 8 Nov – 14 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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